Super Quiz: Disasters

January 7, 2021 at 1:46 a.m.

  1. This liner sunk after hitting an iceberg, resulting in over 1,500 deaths.
  2. A 2010 earthquake in this Caribbean country killed more than 100,000 people.
  3. This pandemic originated in China in 2019 and so far has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
  4. In 1977, two passenger jets collided on the runway on this island, resulting in 583 fatalities.
  5. A famine on this island country (1845-49) caused the population to fall by over 20%.
  6. This eruption in 1980 was the deadliest volcanic event in U.S. history.
  7. In 1917, two ships collided and exploded in this city's harbor, killing almost 2,000 people.
  8. In 2020, two explosions in this port city resulted in at least 220 deaths.
  9. In 1937, this German airship caught fire in New Jersey, killing about 35 people.

ANSWERS:

  1. RMS Titanic
  2. Haiti
  3. Covid-19
  4. Tenerife
  5. Ireland
  6. Mount St. Helens
  7. Halifax, Canada
  8. Beirut
  9. Hindenburg

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