Famous Disasters

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1. The 1964 earthquake that struck Alaska occurred during which religious day of observance? Good Friday Christmas Easter Sunday Rosh Hasanah

2. What lighter-than-air gas was used to lift the doomed German airship Hindenburg? Helium Neon Argon Hydrogen

3. Prior to the September 11, 2001 suicide attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, what city was the site of the worst air disaster in US history? San Francisco Dallas Chicago Kansas City

4. In which Great Lake did the cargo ship Edmund Fitzgerald meet its doom? Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior Lake Erie

5. What was the name of the nuclear-powered American submarine that sank in the North Atlantic during deep-sea trials on April 10, 1963? Natilus Thresher Sea Dragon Tullabee

6. What city found itself swimming in molasses after a holding tank exploded in 1919? Philadelphia New York Boston Baltimore

7. The Silver Bridge collapse in 1967 directly affected which two states? Ohio and West Virginia Ohio and Indiana Ohio and Kentucky Ohio and Pennsylvania

8. Which Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to die during a space mission? Georgi Dobrovolsky Alexei Leonov Vladimir Komarov Yuri Gargarin

9. Which Gulf Coast city lost over 6,000 people to a hurricane in 1900? Galveston, Texas Mobile, Alabama Biloxi, Mississippi New Orleans, Louisiana

10. Which city in India was affected by a deadly chemical leak in 1984? Jodhpur Bhopal Hyderabad Kanpur

11. Which Russian city was the site of a the spectacular Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall in 1947? Plesetsk Krasnoyarsk Vladivostok Khabarovsk

12. What Pennsylvania town was washed away in a major flood in 1889? Reading Allentown Johnstown Lancaster

13. What kind of aircraft struck the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945? Cargo plane Passenger plane Fighter Bomber

14. Which Japanese city was rocked by a 6.9 earthquake on the morning of January 17, 1995? Yokohama Osaka Tokyo Kobe

15. The first major commercial nuclear power plant to experience a disaster was located in what country? France England United States Soviet Union