Red Cross Disaster Response
This three-word action phrase describes what you should do during an earthquake?
What is "Drop, Cover, and Hold On"?
To prevent accidental drowning, children and non-swimmers should always wear this Coast Guard-approved equipment when around open water or on boats.
What is a Life Jacket
Volunteers make up approximately this percentage of the total American Red Cross workforce.
What is 90%?
Blood appears bright red when bound to oxygen, but appears darker inside veins due to the way light penetrates human skin and this iron-rich protein.
What is hemoglobin?
The famous 1692 witch trials, which led to the execution of 20 people suspected of witchcraft, took place in this Massachusetts town.
What is Salem?
During a disaster, the Red Cross opens these community facilities to provide safe housing, hot meals, and emotional support to evacuees.
What are emergency shelters?
When assisting a struggling swimmer without entering the water yourself, you should perform this safe non-swimming rescue technique using an extended object.
What is "Reach or Throw, Don't Go"?
Red Cross High School Clubs operate under the guidance of this adult mentor, usually a teacher or staff member at the school.
What is a Club Advisor?
Nocturnal creatures like owls and cats have a mirror-like layer behind their retinas called the tapetum lucidum, which causes this creepy effect at night.
What is eye shine (or glowing eyes)?
In Mexican folklore, this "Wailing Woman" wanders near rivers at night, weeping for her lost children.
Who is La Llorona?
The Red Cross recommends having a 14-day supply of essential items kept in this portable container, ready to grab if you must evacuate immediately.
What is a "Go Bag" (or Bug-out Bag / Emergency Evacuation Kit)?
When performing CPR on an infant, compressions should be delivered using this part of your hand instead of two palms.
What are two fingers
This nationwide Red Cross Youth initiative encourages students to organize blood drives at their schools to earn scholarships and grants.
What is the Leaders Save Lives program?
These flying mammals, famous in vampire lore, are the only mammals capable of sustained, powered flight.
What are bats?
According to urban legend, repeating this ghostly figure's name three times (or five times) in front of a dark mirror summons her spirit.
Who is Bloody Mary?
This annual American Red Cross campaign aims to reduce home fire deaths by installing free smoke alarms in at-risk communities.
What is the Sound the Alarm campaign (or Home Fire Campaign)?
This medical condition occurs when the body's temperature-regulating system fails after prolonged heat exposure, causing skin to become hot, red, and dry.
What is heat stroke?
This international humanitarian law agreement, consisting of four treaties, protects non-combatants, medical workers, and prisoners during wartime.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
Rigor mortis, the temporary stiffening of muscles after death, is caused by the loss of this chemical energy molecule in muscle cells.
What is ATP
Built in San Jose, California, this sprawling mansion features stairs leading to ceilings and doors opening into walls, supposedly to confuse revengeful spirits.
What is the Winchester Mystery House?
When a disaster strikes internationally, this organization coordinates relief efforts between national Red Cross societies around the world.
What is the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)?
Before helping a conscious adult who is choking, you should perform a combination of 5 back blows followed by 5 of these abdominal thrusts.
What are Heimlich maneuvers
Youth and young adults under 24 years old make up roughly this fraction of all Red Cross volunteers in the United States.
What is one-quarter (or 25%)?
Bioluminescence—the chemical light emitted by glowing fungi or deep-sea creatures—is produced by the reaction between oxygen and this light-emitting compound.
What is luciferin?
This famous 19th-century author, known for macabre stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, died under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore in 1849.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?