Quiz About Disasters

Questions

1. Which U.S. city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
2. In what year did the Titanic sink?
3. The Hindenburg airship exploded in 1937 due to a leak of which gas?
4. In which Indian city did a gas tragedy occur in 1984?
5. What was the name of the American space shuttle that disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003?
6. Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, while en route from which city to Paris?
7. Which island was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history in 1979?
8. The cargo ship Ever Given caused a major obstruction in which body of water in 2021?
9. In what year did the Great Fire of London take place?
10. In what year did the Space Shuttle Challenger explode shortly after lift-off?
11. In 1999, a Russian submarine sank in the Barents Sea after an onboard explosion. What was its name?
12. Which volcano erupted in 1883, causing massive tsunamis and global climate effects?
13. What name was given to the severe air pollution event that affected London in December 1952?
14. What name was given to the severe drought in the 1930s that devastated the agricultural Great Plains of the United States?
15. Which volcanic eruption buried the city of Pompeii in AD 79?
16. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster in 1989 off the coast of which American state?
17. A storm caused the collapse of which bridge in Scotland in 1879?
18. Which ferry sank in 1987 in the North Sea after a collision?
19. Which lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall?
20. Which European capital was almost completely destroyed by a major earthquake on 1 November 1755?

Answers

1. New Orleans
2. 1912
3. Hydrogen
4. Bhopal
5. Columbia
6. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
7. Three Mile Island
8. Suez Canal
9. 1666
10. 1986
11. Kursk
12. Krakatoa
13. The Great Smog
14. The Dust Bowl
15. Mount Vesuvius
16. Alaska
17. Tay Bridge
18. Herald of Free Enterprise
19. The Penlee lifeboat
20. Lisbon