Natural Disasters
US States
Movie Scenes
Studs Among Studs
Exploring 1st and 2nds
100
This Hurricane famously hit New Orleans. It's the bad obvious one you're thinking about.
Hurricane Katrina
100
West Virginia
100
Jaws
100
From Baltimore, MD, this is the most successful and decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. My aunt thinks I look like him.
Michael Phelps
100
This Portuguese man is known to be the first to circumnavigate the world in 1519 despite dying on the voyage in 1521.
Ferdinand Magellan
200
Pompeii remains one of the most classic examples of volcanic devastation. What is the name of the mountain that erupted?
Mount Vesuvius
200
Nevada
200
Star Wars Attack of the Clones
200
Before Usain Bolt took over the sprinting world, this American won four Olympic gold medals and 8 World Championships gold medals in the span of his career. He formerly held the world and Olympic records in the 200m and 400m, as well as the world record in the indoor 400m.
Michael Johnson
200
This veteran astronaut became only the second person to ever set foot on the moon. (Assuming it was all real)
Buzz Aldrin
300
This 2011 earthquake rocked Japan at Okuma. This was near one of their prominent nuclear power plants the disaster is named after.
Fukushima nuclear disaster.
300
Iowa
300
The Martian
300
Known for her finishing ability and clutch headers, this six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, was a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team from 2003 to 2015, earning her first cap in 2001
Abby Wambach
300
Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of Spain in the early 16th century.
Hernan Cortes
400
In 2010, this Caribbean nation was stuck by an earthquake that killed an estimated 100k-160k people.
Haiti
400
Vermont
400
Johnny English
400
Widely referred to as one of the greatest professional tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 for a record 377 weeks and won 22 major singles titles. The German is the only tennis player, male or female, to have won each major tournament at least four times before retiring in 1999.
Steffi Graf
400
A Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on continental North America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus.
Leif Erikson
500
The most deadly natural disaster occurred in 1931 from floods hitting major cities. While the initial floods killed ~140k people, the lack of food and cholera epidemic that followed contributed to roughly 3.7 million deaths. Name the county. Bonus points for naming the river that started it.
1921 China floods - Yangtze-Hauni River
500
South Dakota
500
Little Women (2019)
500
An American retired middle-distance runner. He was the gold medalist in the 800 meters at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He was known for wearing a golf cap while running and even splitting his gold medal race.
Dave Wottle
500
He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands. He was killed trying to kidnap the Hawaiian king.
Captain James Cook