Galloping Gertie
Bridge Failures
Aftermath
November 1940
Fun Facts
100

What the nickname for the bridge was

What is Galloping Gertie?

100

How many steel girders that they used on the bridge

What is 2 steel girders?

100

What structure was added to the bridge to twist after it was built again

What is double lateral bracing?

100

What day the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed

What is November 7, 1940?

100

How many decades the engineers studied the bridge for

What is six decades?

200

What the nickname is now after they built the bridge again

What is Sturdy Gertie?

200

What made the bridge collapse

What is aeroelastic flutter?

200

How much money that the organization that made the bridge lost the day it collapsed

What is 5.2 million dollars?

200

What way the bridge was flowing from

What is Southwest?

200

How narrow was the bridge

What is 39 feet wide?

300

How much feet fell off the Tacoma bridge

What is 600 feet?

300

What they tried to make the bridge better

What is tie-down cables?

300

How many wires on the north band that broke off

What is 350 wires?

300

The day the Tacoma Narrows bridge opened

What is July 1, 1940?

300

What the weakest point on a suspension bridge is 

What is the suspended roadway?

400

What the name of the news reporter whose dog had died on the bridge

What is Leonard Coatsworth?

400

How many policies were insured

What is 22 policies?

400

What object was used for the new bridge for wind to pass through

What is wind grates?

400

How much feet did it lift up before it had collapsed

What is 28 feet?

400

How long the concrete frame was

What is 210 feet?

500

How much tons the bridge could hold

What is 11,250 tons?

500

What was one of the problems that were wrong with the bridge

What is un-damped oscillations?

500

How did aerodynamic instability effect during the collapse

What is it twisted 45 degrees?

500

Why was the bridge given the name Galloping Gertie

What is severe, wavy vertical movement, which caused the deck to rise and fall several feet even in moderate wind?

500

What did they believe that would help the suspension bridge work

What is lighter and narrow bridges were theoretically and functionally sound?

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