In the winter of 2009-2010, what storm’s name was the combination of a type of precipitation and a biblical reference?
What is Snowmadgeddon?
100
Body of water where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank.
What is Lake Superior?
100
2005 hurricane that resulted in 1,836 deaths and left New Orleans under water.
What is Katrina?
100
Name of area of covering the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that was devastated by drought in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
The 9/11 attack with 2,996 fatalities was the only act of terror with more fatalities in the U.S. than this one.
What is Pearl Harbor? (2,466 fatalities)
200
The alias of the Children’s Blizzard that killed 230 people in 1888 took its name from a building associated with children.
What is Schoolhouse?
200
Disaster relief organization that was first mobilized in response to the 1889 flood at Johnston, PA, that killed 2,200.
What is the Red Cross?
200
2005 hurricane that was the "most intense" ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, inflicting damage on Florida, Mexico and several islands.
What is Wilma?
200
This fire in 1871 which destroyed about a third of this city’s valuation was allegedly started by Mrs.O’Leary’s cow.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
200
This campus was rocked in 2007 when a gunman killed 32 people and wounded 17 others.
What is Virginia Tech?
300
This mountain range shares its name with a 1950 blizzard that killed 353 people.
What is Appalachian?
300
Mississippi city where the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 reached a peak of 80 miles wide.
What is Vickburg?
300
The third-most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. in the 20th century, this 1992 hurricane wreaked havoc throughout the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana, causing $26.5 billion in damage and 43 deaths.
What is Andrew?
300
This National Park had more than 2 million acres of land scorched by wildfires in 1988.
What is Yellowstone?
300
In 2012, this airline had a pilot experience a nervous breakdown mid-flight, resulting in the passengers subduing him while the co-pilot landed the plane.
What is Jetblue?
400
This 1913 storm that killed 260 people derived its name from several bodies of water that lay in its path.
What is Great Lakes?
400
The world’s largest tidal wave at 1.720 feet pounded which of the United States?
What is Alaska? (Lituya Bay, Alaska, 1958)
400
The 2008 hurricane devastated land from Texas to the Florida Panhandle and caused the largest evacuation in Texas state history.
What is Ike?
400
In 2007, wildfires triggered the biggest evacuation in this state’s history as more than 500,000 acres burned.
What is California?
400
Slightly more than one-third of shooters do this after using guns to kill co-workers in the workplace.
What is "commit suicide?"
500
This 1940 blizzard is named for a holiday that shares the same date as “Veterans Day Storm.”
What is Armistice Day?
500
In 1915, 845 passengers on the SS Eastland died when the boat tipped because it was top-heavy, in part due to this late addition to its cargo.
What are Lifeboats?
500
This 1991 hurricane skirted North Carolina's Outer Banks and ultimately caused President George Bush to evacuate from his secluded estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.
What is Bob?
500
The Monongah mining disaster, which is the largest in U.S. history with 362 fatalities, occurred in this state.
What is West Virginia?
500
The two states with the highest rates of work place violence.