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1. On June 12, 1955, the worst single auto racing accident occurred when a race car flew into the stands and exploded, killing 83 people, including the driver at this annual event:
2. On Nov. 28, 1942, the story has it that members of the Boston College football team had scheduled a victory party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub. That night, an employee accidentally ignited a decorative palm tree, causing a fire. The resulting confusion in the smoke, combined with the front door being chained to discourage party crashers, led to the deaths of 474 people. Miraculously, none of the Boston College team was injured. Why?
3. The single deadliest fire in a single building occurred on December 8, 1863 in a Jesuit church in this city:
4. On September 19, 1902, patrons of a crowded Baptist church were awaiting a lecture by George Washington Carver when a panic ensued, causing a mad rush to the exits. 115 people were trampled to death. What caused the panic?
5. In what community was it discovered a school and playground was constructed over 21,000 tons of industrial waste from the late 1950's through 1980?
6. A bridge under construction in this city completely collapsed once in 1907 and partially collapsed again in 1916, costing nearly 90 workers' lives in the process:
7. A faulty piping system was blamed as the cause of the worst peacetime disaster in U.S. naval history when this nuclear submarine sank in the north Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New Hampshire on April 10, 1963:
8. On July 28, 1945, a pilot aboard a U.S. Army Air Force bomber became disoriented trying to land in Newark, New Jersey, and falsely declared he would try at LaGuardia, with the intent of diverting back at the first sign of clearing, when he crashed into which New York landmark?
9. The first bubonic plague recorded as it happened occurred in the 6th Century over Asia Minor, Africa and Europe. This Eastern Emperor was saddled with having this epidemic named after him:
10. On May 25, 1979, a DC-10 lost an engine, severing vital hydraulic lines and plunged ten seconds after takeoff, killing all 271 people on board in the worst crash in the history of this major airport:
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