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Settle In for Some Submarine Cable Trivia

Written by Kristin Carlson | May 9, 2022 11:51:00 AM

Have you been playing the secret cable trivia hosted on our interactive submarine cable map?

If you haven’t, look for the icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Submit the correct answer and you’ll be entered to win a free submarine cable map in our monthly drawing.

In February, we released the answers to our first three questions. Now it’s time to reveal a new batch of answers.

How many active or planned cables are named after colors?

Not quite all the colors of the rainbow. But these four cables were on the spectrum:

How many active or planned cables are named after fruit?

Rest assured, with no cable named Tomato, we won’t have to get into the fruit-or-vegetable debate.

There were only two cables with fruit-based names on our map: Apricot and Tangerine.

How many active or planned cables are named after Greek gods?

We saw a lot of submissions for Ulysses, who is technically not a god, leaving us with only these three cables:

Congrats to our lucky map winners. And thank you to Aqua Comms for sponsoring our interactive map and monthly trivia sessions.