Post-Apocalypse Fiction
This series takes place in a fictional North America where children are forced to fight to the death for entertainment.
What is The Hunger Games?
Humanity survives an alien invasion by being silent.
What is A Quiet Place?
The eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed this Roman city.
What is Pompeii?
This word is the English translation of the Greek word for "apocalypse".
What is "Revelation"?
This scientist is credited with developing the first nuclear weapon.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
In this story, Earth has become a wasteland, while humanity lives on a spaceship.
What is WALL-E?
This disaster movie is the 4th highest-grossing film of all time.
What is Titanic?
This pandemic wiped out a third of the European population between 1347 and 1351.
What is the Black Plague/Death?
In what year did the Mayan Calendar predict the world would end?
What is 2012 AD?
This standoff in 1962 is considered the closest humanity has ever come to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This video game series explores the world after a nuclear war between the US and China.
What is Fallout?
This book series tells the story of real-world disasters from the perspective of a young survivor.
What is the "I Survived..." Series?
This English colony in America mysteriously vanished, leaving behind only the word "CROATOAN".
What is the Roanoke Colony?
This was a widespread belief that computers would erase all memory at the start of the year 2000.
What is Y2K?
This element is the central component of nuclear weapons.
What is uranium?
An AI assassin is sent back in time to kill the mother of humanity's future leader.
What is The Terminator?
This was the first popular depiction of an alien invasion story.
What is War of the Worlds?
This Ukrainian city was the center of the worst nuclear accident in history.
What is Chernobyl?
In Norse Mythology, this day marks the end of the old world and the beginning of the new.
What is Ragnarok?
This is the only country to dismantle its nuclear weapons.
What is South Africa?
Astronauts land on a future, post-apocalyptic Earth, believing it to be an alien planet.
What is Planet of the Apes?
This has been credited as the first mainstream zombie movie and the inspiration for The Walking Dead.
What is Night of the Living Dead?
This word means "before the time of Noah's Flood".
What is antedeluvian?
Some believed this 1952 invention to be the mark of the Beast.
What are barcodes?
This name is given to any nuclear weapons that are accidentally lost or destroyed by the US.
What is "Broken Arrow"?