The Feud: It's a Disaster! by MsWhatsit (game over)

Object of the game:
Give the most popular answer for each category.

Rules:

  1. No reading the thread before answering. This is on the honor system.
  2. Formatting rules must be followed (see below).
  3. Joke answers will not be considered, as it is not fair to other players.
  4. Google (etc.) is allowed, if you desire.
  5. The game will end with 50 entrants, or when I get time to score it.
  6. There is no Rule 6.
  7. Special Rules for this particular Feud: None

Formatting rules:
To make semi-automated scoring possible, and my job easier, make you post look exactly like this:

  1. answer
  2. answer
  3. answer
  4. answer

No double spacing, do not use the “list” function, no smilies, no urls, no periods, no quote marks, and no punctuation if it is not necessary. Put “pass” if you want to leave an answer blank. If you feel you must qualify your answer, do it AFTER THE LIST! If you don’t format like this, your answers might be DISQUALIFIED.

Scoring:
With 50 entrants, an answer with a match is worth 2x the number of people matching it. If 4 people match, they each get 8 points for that answer. No matches = 0 points.
Formula: Score = 100 / (# of entrants) x (# of matches)

Good luck!

If any of you have ideas for Feuds -and would like me to score them- PM me. If anyone wants to run their own Feud, feel free. I will help any way I can.

Read the rules!
Special Rules for this particular Feud: None

  1. Name a specific famous *natural *disaster.
  2. Name a specific famous man-made disaster, besides the Gulf Coast oil spill.
  3. Name a disaster movie released pre-1990.
  4. Name a disaster movie released in 1990 or later.
  5. Name a person known for being a hero in a disaster.
  6. Name a famous air disaster.
  7. Name a real-life disaster that has had a lot of movies made about it.
  8. Name a famous fictional disaster (from any work of fiction, e.g. books, movies, etc.)
  9. Name a famous epidemic disease. (Just the disease; don’t need a specific year or outbreak.)
  10. Name an infamous act of terrorism, besides 9/11.
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Bhopal gas leak
  3. The Poseidon Adventure
  4. Armageddon
  5. Sully Sullenberger
  6. Hindenburg
  7. Titanic
  8. Capsizing of the Poseidon
  9. Flu
  10. Oklahoma City / Murrah Building bombing
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. 9/11
  3. Earthquake!
  4. Volcano
  5. Sully Sullenberger
  6. TWA Flight 800
  7. 9/11
  8. Dante’s Peak
  9. Ebola
  10. 7/7
  1. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
  2. Chernobyl
  3. The Towering Inferno
  4. Titanic
  5. (The Unsinkable) Molly Brown
  6. The Hindenberg
  7. Sinking of the Titanic
  8. Noah’s flood
  9. Smallpox
  10. 1968 Munich Olympics killings

(I changed 4 from Armageddon to Titanic at the last minute. Hope I don’t regret that).

… and within 3 submissions, we have 0 conches.

  1. the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

  2. Chernobyl

  3. The Poseidon Adventure

  4. 2012

  5. Sully Sullenberger

  6. the Hindenburg

  7. Titanic

  8. the Great Flood

  9. black plague

  10. the July 7 London bombings

  11. from the Bible

  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. Towering Inferno
  4. 2012
  5. Todd Beamer
  6. Lockerbie bombing
  7. The Titanic
  8. Poseiden
  9. Flu
  10. Oklahoma City bombing

Edited #5 before reading other answers – I had forgotten to answer it

  1. San Fransisco earthquake
  2. Chernobyl
  3. The Poseidon Adventure
  4. 2012
  5. Sullenberger
  6. Hindenburg
  7. Titanic
  8. Poseidon sinking
  9. Bubonic plague
  10. Munich massacre

9: Aka Black Death

Re: Sullenberger – I object that it’s not a disaster if no one gets hurt!

Meh, I wavered between flu and smallpox. I R DUM.

  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. The Towering Inferno
  4. Armageddon
  5. Captain Sullenberger
  6. Pan Am 103
  7. Titantic
  8. War of the Worlds
  9. Bubonic Plague
  10. Oklahoma City

It’s the Feud, man. If five people all put “Captain Kangaroo” then we all get points. :wink:

  1. Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. The Poseidon Adventure
  4. Titanic
  5. “Sully”
  6. Hindenberg
  7. Titanic
  8. Poseidon
  9. Flu
  10. Lockerbie
  1. 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
  2. Exxon Valdez oil spill
  3. The Towering Inferno
  4. 2012
  5. Captain “Sully” Sullenberger
  6. the Hindenburg
  7. the Titanic
  8. Captain Trips, from Stephen King’s The Stand
  9. the Black Plague
  10. Iran hostage crisis
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. The Towering Inferno
  4. The Day After Tomorrow
  5. Mayor Bill White
  6. The Hindenburg
  7. The Titanic
  8. The Stand
  9. The Black Plague
  10. Oklahoma City bombing
  11. He opened the Astrodome for Katrina victims, and welcomed them to Houston.
  12. Stephen King’s apocalyptic novel of a deadly strain of flu and the aftermath.
  1. San Francisco earthquake
  2. 9/11
  3. The Towering Inferno
  4. Titanic
  5. Sully Sullenberger
  6. Hindenberg
  7. Titanic
  8. War of the Worlds
  9. Ebola
  10. Oklahoma City bombing
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. Poseidon Adventure
  4. Titanic
  5. Todd Beamer
  6. Hindenburg
  7. Titanic
  8. Poseidon
  9. Black Death
  10. Oklahoma City federal building bombing

Notes:
2. Hoping the mention of one oil spill in the question will inspire memories of another
8. From ‘The Poseidon Adventure,’ natch

  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. Towering Inferno
  4. Titanic
  5. Capn Sully
  6. Lockerbie.
  7. Titanic
  8. End of the world
  9. Bubonic plague
  10. Oklahoma City
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. Exxon Valdez
  3. Poseidon Adventure
  4. Day After Tomorrow
  5. Capt. Sullenberger
  6. Hindenberg
  7. Titanic
  8. War of the Worlds
  9. Ebola virus
  10. Oklahoma City bombing
  11. I am mortified that I didn’t even think of Pan Am 103, even though there is a memorial on the campus of my alma mater. Bad alumna, bad!
  1. Hurricane Katrina
  2. 9/11
  3. Towering Inferno
  4. Titanic
  5. Captain Sullenberger
  6. Hindenberg
  7. Titanic
  8. Alien Invasion
  9. Bubonic Plaque
  10. Lockerbie plane crash
  11. I was thinking of War of the Worlds, should I have put the title there?

Wow. No love at all for Molly Brown.