National Tragedies
The 2001 attack on the World Trade Center
What was 9/11?
Known for discovering Polonium and Radium
Who was Marie Curie?
This 2023 movie is based on the life of a physicist who shares the same last name as the movie title
What is Oppenheimer?
A military operation was conducted by Australia on this animal in 1932
This is the year WWII officially started
When was 1939?
The only US reactor accident to cause immediate deaths
What was SL1?
Considered the founder of modern nursing
Who was Florence Nightingale?
This 2019 movie was famously made to appear as a one-shot film and is Dr. Ketcherside's favorite WWI movie
What is 1917?
Three events where people were thrown out of a window in the same city
What were the Defenestrations of Prague?
The Republic France is currently on
What is the 5th republic?
This incident is alleged to have started by a cow kicking over a lantern
What was the Great Chicago Fire?
The first black woman to star in a major motion picture, who acted as a spy during WWII, and as a civil rights activist
Who was Josephine Baker?
This 1993 film starring Liam Neeson is shot primarily in black and white with a famous exception
What is Schindler's List?
This incident happened in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 1919 and killed 21 people
What was the Great Molasses Flood?
This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
This tornado outbreak contained the Tri-State Tornado
The HeLa immortal cell line comes from this woman, whose cells were taken without her consent
Who was Henrietta Lacks?
This 1962 film starring John Wayne is based on the book by the same name about the D-Day landings
What is The Longest Day?
The name of Andrew Jackson's swearing parrot
What is Poll?
What are French, German, Italian, and Romansh?
The city of two separate coal mining accidents between 1913 and 1923
Where is Dawson, New Mexico?
Known as the "female Paul Revere," this 16 year old girl traveled 40 miles in 1777 to warn about a British attack
Who was Sybil Ludington?
This 2018 film is based on the deadliest terrorist attack in Norway
What is 22 July?
In this year a mysterious Dancing Plague broke out
When was 1518?
The manufacturer of the car that carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914
What is Gräf & Stift?