sigh My first thought was Sully, then I thought “no, that was a disaster averted!” I guess I’m too optimistic!
- Hurricane Katrina
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
- The Towering Inferno
- Armageddon
- Captain Sullenburger
- Hindenburg
- Sinking of the Titanic
- Destruction of Alderaan
- Bubonic Plague
- Oklahoma City bombing
5 - The landing on the Hudson dude
8 - Star Wars
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Great Chicago Fire
- The Towering Inferno
- Volcano
- Rudy Giuliani
- The Hindenburg
- The sinking of the Titanic
- The sinking of Atlantis
- Spanish Flu
- The Madrid train bombing
This is a very depressing post.
- Katrina
- Chernobyl
- Poseidon Adventure
- Titanic
- Captain Sully
- Hindenburg
- Earthquake
- Poseidon Adventure
- Black Plague
- Munich
- Katrina
- Exxon Valdez
- The Posiedon Adventure
- 2012
- Captain Sully
- Name a famous air disaster.
- Hindenburg
- End of the world
- Bubonic Plague
- Oklahoma bombing
Oops, forgot 6. Hindenburg.
- Hurricane Katrina
- Chernobyl
- The Morning After
- 2012
- Mychal Judge
- Flight 93
- 9-11
- World War III
- Black Plague
- Oklahoma City bombing
I’m not seeing a high score for Question 8.
- Katrina
- Exxon Valdez
- Posieden Adventure
- Armageddon
- Sully Sullenburger
- Hindenburg
- Titanic
- War of the Worlds
- Influenza
- London Subway Bombing (7/7)
- San Francisco Earthquake
- Chernobyl
- The Towering Inferno
- Armageddon
- Chesley Sullenberger
- Hindenburg
- Titanic
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Black Plague
- Timothy Mcveigh’s Oklahoma City attack
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San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
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Sinking of Titanic
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Towering Inferno
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Titanic
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Jim Lovell, Apollo 13
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Hindenburg
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Titanic
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Destruction of Earth
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Black Plague
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Munich Olympics shootings
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As seen in any number of sci-fi books and movies. If I must choose one instance, I’m thinking of the beginning of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Indian Ocean Tsunami
- Chernobyl meltdown
- Poseidon Adventure
- 2012
- Captain Sully Sullenberger
- Pam Am Flight 103
- Flight 93
- 2012
- Black Plague
- Oklahoma City bombing
- Pompeii
- Exxon Valdez oil spill
- Airport
- Armageddon
- Captain “Sully” Sullenbarger
- The Hindenberg
- Titanic
- Alien invasion from War of the Worlds
- Ebola
- Oklahoma City bombing
Wow, no love for Ebola at all.
To be fair, Ebola has only killed several hundred people in each outbreak, while the Bubonic Plague is responsible for about 200 million deaths in total.
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Name a specific famous natural disaster.
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Name a specific famous man-made disaster, besides the Gulf Coast oil spill.
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Name a disaster movie released pre-1990.
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Name a disaster movie released in 1990 or later.
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Name a person known for being a hero in a disaster.
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Name a famous air disaster.
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Name a real-life disaster that has had a lot of movies made about it.
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Name a famous fictional disaster (from any work of fiction, e.g. books, movies, etc.)
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Name a famous epidemic disease. (Just the disease; don’t need a specific year or outbreak.)
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Name an infamous act of terrorism, besides 9/11.
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2006 Tsunami
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Exxon Valdez
3 The Towering Inferno
4 Titanic
5 Captain Sully
6 Lockerbie
7 The Titanic
8 The Posidean
9 Influenza
10 Lockerbie
8 Definitely doesn’t look right but Firefox spellcheck won’t help and I don’t want to use outside resources.
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1: I mean 2004
- Katrina
- Exxon Valdez
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Day After Tomorrow
- Capt. Sullenberger
- The Hindenberg
- Titanic vs. the Iceberg
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Black Plague
- Terrorists kill Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
- Hurricane Katrina
- Exxon Valdez
- The Towering Inferno
- Deep Impact
- Todd Beemer
- The Hindenburg
- The sinking of the Titanic
- Martian invasion of Earth
- The Black Death
- the London bombings
- Katrina
- Chernobyl
- Poseiden Adventure
- Day After Tomorrow
- Sully Sullenberger
- Hindenburg
- Titanic
- The Biblical Flood
- Black Plague
- Lockerbie
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Recent earthquake in Haiti
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Exxon Valdez
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The Towering Inferno
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Armageddon
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Chesley Sullenberger
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Hindenburg explosion
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Titanic sinking
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War of the Worlds invasion
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Influenza
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Oklahoma City bombing
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More specifically, a hero for averting disaster
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Tim McVeigh – Murrah Federal Building