Names
Place or thing?
Investigation
Numbers
Terms
100
The only life lost on the narrows bridge was a dog. What was his name?
What is Tubby?
100
The Hyatt Regency, the location of the historic walkway collapse, is located in this city.
What is Kansas City?
100
This reporter ended up assisting the investigation of the walkway collapse.
Who is Mike Mahony?
100
The collapse of the bridge occurred on November 7 or what year?
What is 1940?
100
This term describes the front doors to the Hyatt Regency when the lobby was filling up with water.
What is a dam?
200
The engineer in charge of overseeing the design of the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Who is Jack Gillum?
200
The industrial city that this bridge connected to.
What is Tacoma?
200
During the NBS investigation on the collapse of the walkways, this piece of evidence led to conclude that overcrowding did not cause failure.
What is video footage?
200
The number of lives lost in the collapse of the Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways.
What is 114?
200
In addition to tie down cables, this was to be incorporated in an attempt to correct the bouncing.
What are hydraulics?
300
The famous engineer that was consulted for the design of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Who is Leon Moisseiff?
300
The Hyatt Regency Hotel sponsored this social gathering on the night of the collapse.
What is a Tea Dance?
300
After testing a reconstructed model of the walkways, the result concluded that failure of the walkways was not due to this type.
What is harmonic resonance?
300
The Hyatt Regency walkways collapsed in this year.
What is 1981?
300
This testing is now mandatory for all bridge designs.
What is wind tunnel testing?
400
The nickname of this bridge.
What is Galloping Gertie?
400
The parts of the bridge that "caught" the wind on the narrows bridge.
What are solid plate girders.
400
The walkways failed ultimately due to this design flaw.
The hangar rods could not support the load.
400
Failure of the box beams in the walkways occurred at just over this many tons.
What is 8?
400
Although the wind speed was low, this amplified the torsional twisting the narrows bridge.
What is vortex shedding?