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1. One of the greatest and most tragic disasters of the twentieth century, it featured both manmade hubris and natural force - and had a gigantic James Cameron movie devoted to it.
Our time machines are set for 1912, the maiden voyage of which famous ship?
2. We're setting our machine for 79 AD, headed off to a Roman town that was so well preserved by a volcanic eruption in that fateful year that it was rediscovered almost 1700 years later! Which city is this, that along with Herculaneum, was suddenly destroyed by Vesuvius and then preserved in ash so that the excavators of the eighteenth century could learn quite a bit by studying its remains?
3. We set our time machines for the devil's year 1666 - when a great European city is on fire! We might have preferred to read Samuel Pepys' diary of the event, come to think of it!
Which city burned in 1666 in a "Great Fire"?
4. We are on a roll of "fire" - we set our machines 64 AD, where a fire rages in Rome! Which emperor was famously charged with not caring about the fire, and indeed "fiddling" while his city burned?
5. We set our sights on 1906, for San Francisco, where the deadliest disaster in the history of California pre-2000 occurred. What kind of disaster was it?
6. A more recent disaster from 2005, in a Gulf State where a hurricane devastated a major city. The aftermath of the disaster and its mishandling was a famous political fumble for the Bush administration and FEMA.
Which major city was so devastated by Hurricane Katrina?
7. An entirely man-made disaster makes our list as we travel back again to 1929.
Black Tuesday is hardly a banner day for the United States, as this event is largely seen as the beginning of a decade of hardship. What happened?
8. We set our time machines for 1986, where the world's worst nuclear disasters occurred. Let's suit up for this one - they say over a million premature deaths resulted from this one. Which place in the former USSR names this horrific incident?
9. "Oh the humanity!" We go for New Jersey in 1937, where a certain vessel or structure crashed and burned (literally) such a powerful image that it killed that entire form of transportation pretty much permanently. Which vessel had an unfortunate crash and scared people off ever using similar modes of transport again?
10. The time on this is 1918 but the location is not specific - we could be affected by this disaster almost everywhere! This disaster - a pandemic - affected 500 million people and killed at least 50 million of them but may have killed many more. World War I is thought to be one of the reasons why the pandemic spread so widely.
The disease's method of killing people through strong immune response is why otherwise healthy people died so often from the disease: a strong immune system actually worked against you for this disease. Which pandemic was this, one of the deadliest in history?
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