AUSTRALIA/NZ
What year did Australia become a united Commonwealth and all territories form a federal government?
1901
How many inhabited territories in Oceania are owned/governed by the United States?
3
Am. Samoa, Guam, N. Mariana Islands
100 days
How many days did it take to clear the rubble from ‘ground zero’?
245 days (working 24 hours a day) Clearing 1.8 MILLION TONS of wreckage/rubble/debris from the site.
Traveling at roughly 17,500 MPH, how long does it take the ISS to fully orbit the Earth?
92 minutes
Aboriginal populations dropped from 1million to __________ by 1930.
67,000
How many degrees of latitude does the continent of Oceania span?
78 degrees
From 28 degrees North to 55 degrees South
How many minutes between the first airplane struck Tower 1 until the last tower (Tower 2) collapsed (and ALL events had taken place during the 9/11 attacks?
102 minutes (8:46am - 10:28am EST)
How many years did it take for the US government to pass the bill to cover all of the healthcare costs for the 9/11 victims and their families?
18 years!! (finally passed permanently in 2019!)
How fast is a sneeze?
avg = 70mph, top speeds can be 100mph!
Instead of joining the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand assumed it’s own federal government within the British Empire in this year…
1907
Oceania features some of the wettest places on Earth, with the islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia averaging _______ inches per year.
299!!
How many firefighters died injuries the line of duty on 9/11?
343
When did the ’Freedom Tower’ or “One World Trade Center” open?
2014
16 MILLION!
New Zealand was granted full independence after WW2 in what year?
1947
Who was the famous British explorer to first discover Australia, NZ, and some other parts of Oceania in 1770?
James Cook
The 9/11 attacks were not the first terrorist attacks on these famous buildings (the Twin Towers)…what year did a single jihadist extremist set off a bomb in the basement/parking garage of the trade centers?
1993, killing 6 people and injuring ~1,000
This was one of the first major ‘red flags’ that terrorism was ‘close to home’ on American soil.
How many federal security agencies united to form the US Department of Homeland Security after 9/11? (Officially established in 2003)
22 agencies including: FEMA, TSA, Secret Service, ICE, CBP, etc.
The world’s oldest known cat on record named “Crème Puff” lived to be how old?
38 years & 3 days!
Which native people/tribe was exempt from fighting in WW2? But 17,000 of them volunteered to serve anyway!
The Māori
How many cities (urban areas) have a population of over 1million?
6
(Sydney, Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, & Adelaide)
How many people were rescued alive from underneath the rubble after the collapse of the towers?
20 total.
This included 6 firefighters, 3 police officers, and 1 Port Authority agent, and 10 other civilians.
The Port Authority agent was the last survivor rescued after a staggering 27 hours under the rubble, trapped by concrete, and rescued by former US Marines who would not give up aiding in the search efforts.
FBI, WHO, and CDC studied the chemicals and particles from the ash cloud (after the collapse) and the smoke/debris from the initial impacts and found THIS MANY chemical agents. These chemicals were both inhaled and ingested by an estimated 400,000 people that day. Later, causing now 149K people to have what’s referred to as a ‘post-9/11 chronic illness or disease,’ many of them cancerous.
352 chemicals identified. WOW.
The world’s oldest known dog lived to be how old?
29.5 years! ”BLUEY” the Australian Cattle Dog!