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? Hydrogen Argon Helium Neon

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? Dallas San Francisco Kansas City Chicago

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

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 Tullabee Sea Dragon Thresher

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

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

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? Biloxi, Mississippi New Orleans, Louisiana Mobile, Alabama Galveston, Texas

10. Which city in India was affected by a deadly chemical leak in 1984? Bhopal Hyderabad Jodhpur 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? Bomber Fighter Cargo plane Passenger plane

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? Soviet Union France England United States