Movie Disasters
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Red Cross History
Other Crosses
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A TORNADO HITS KANSAS AND CAUSES A HOUSE TO LAND ON A WITCH IN THIS FILM
What is The Wizard of Oz?
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THE ONLY HURRICANE FROM BEFORE 2000 REMAINING ON THE LIST OF TOP 10 COSTLIEST HURRICANES, THIS STORM HIT FLORIDA IN AUGUST 1992 AND CAUSED $27 BILLION IN DAMAGE
What is Hurricane Andrew?
200
THIS COUNTRY HAS ADOPTED THE MAGEN DAVID ADOM AS IT'S HUMANITARIAN SYMBOL
What is Israel?
200
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH WELL-KNOWN UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND, CLARA WAS BORN IN THIS MASSACHUSETTS TOWN
What is Oxford?
200
FROM THE BEGINNING, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS HAS BEEN HEADQUARTERED IN THIS SWISS CITY, THE HOMETOWN OF ITS FOUNDER
What is Geneva?
200
THIS POPULAR FORM OF SEWING AND EMBROIDERY, WHICH USES X-SHAPES, HAS BEEN USED TO DESIGN MANY THROW PILLOWS OVER THE YEARS
What is cross-stitch?
400
THERE WAS ROOM ON THE FLOATING DOOR FOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO IN THIS MOVIE, THE THIRD HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF ALL TIME
What is Titanic?
400
THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND THEIR SPORTS TEAMS, THE HURRICANES, CALL THIS CITY SEVEN MILES SOUTH OF MIAMI HOME
What is Coral Gables?
400
A PALM TREE APPEARS ON THE RED CRESCENT EMBLEM OF THIS OIL RICH MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY
What is Saudi Arabia?
400
CLARA SPENT MORE THAN 10 YEARS WORKING IN THIS PROFESSION BEFORE BECOMING A NURSE DURING THE CIVIL WAR
What is a teacher?
400
THE FIRST OF THESE PRIZES WAS AWARDED TO HENRY DUNANT IN 1901, IN PART FOR HIS WORK WITH THE RED CROSS
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
400
THE CROSS OF THE FALLEN, RECOGNIZED AS BEING THE TALLEST IN THE WORLD, IS LOCATED NEAR MADRID, IN THIS EUROPEAN COUNTRY.
What is Spain?
600
LESLIE NIELSEN DOESN'T WANT TO BE CALLED SHIRLEY IN THIS DISASTER SPOOF FILM
What is Airplane!?
600
IN 2017, THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SENT DISASTER RELIEF TEAMS TO TEXAS IN RESPONSE TO THIS HURRICANE, WHICH POUNDED THE CITY OF HOUSTON WITH UP TO 40 INCHES OF RAIN
What is Hurricane Harvey?
600
THE RED CROSS IS SURROUNDED BY A JASMINE FLOWER IN THIS ISLAND COUNTRY, THE FOURTH MOST POPULOUS IN THE WORLD
What is Indonesia?
600
DAILY DOUBLE!
AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED, CLARA BECAME ACQUAINTANCES WITH THIS FAMOUS ABOLITIONIST, WHO WAS BORN INTO SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
Who is Frederick Douglass?
600
THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR OF 1877 SAW THE FIRST USAGE OF THIS SYMBOL NOW USED IN PLACE OF THE RED CROSS IN MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES
What is the Red Crescent?
600
MANY HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE A TEAM FOR THIS TYPE OF RUNNING WHICH IS PRACTICED OUTSIDE, USUALLY THROUGH WOODED AREAS
What is cross country?
800
MOVIEGOERS IN THE SUMMER OF 1998 HAD A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO ASTEROID FILMS, DEEP IMPACT AND THIS ONE STARRING BRUCE WILLIS
What is Armageddon?
800
"IAN" HAS BEEN RETIRED FROM THE ROTATING LIST OF HURRICANE NAMES AND ITS REPLACEMENT IS THE FIRST NAME OF THIS BRITISH ACTOR
What is Idris?
800
THIS COUNTRY, THE LARGEST IN AFRICA, HAS TWO LANGUAGES, ARABIC AND FRENCH, ON THEIR OFFICIAL RED CRESCENT EMBLEM
What is Algeria?
800
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, CLARA DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL SUPPLIES AT THIS BATTLE, THE BLOODIEST IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
What is Antietam?
800
WITNESSING THE BLOODSHED AT THIS BATTLE IN 1859 INSPIRED HENRY DUNANT TO FOUND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
What is the Battle of Solferino?
800
THE FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE, AT THAT TIME REFERRED TO AS A "WORD-CROSS", APPEARED IN A NEWSPAPER IN 1913 IN THIS LARGEST US CITY
WHAT IS NEW YORK CITY?
1000
GENE HACKMAN AND SHELLEY WINTERS ARE PASSENGERS ON A CRUISE LINER IN THIS 1973 UPSIDE DOWN DISASTER MOVIE
What is The Poseidon Adventure?
1000
ALTHOUGH THEY ARE CALLED HURRICANES IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, TROPICAL CYCLONES ARE REFERRED TO BY THIS WORD, DERIVED FROM MANDARIN, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN
What is Typhoon?
1000
POSITIONED ON THE STEPPES BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA, THIS COUNTRY USES A RED CROSS SYMBOL WITH A BLUE CIRCLE AROUND IT
What is Mongolia?
1000
AFTER ORIGINALLY BEING DENIED OFFICIAL FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS BY PRESIDENT HAYES, CLARA SUCCEEDED DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS PRESIDENT IN 1882
Who is Chester A. Arthur?
1000
IN 1990, THE ICRC BECAME THE FIRST PRIVATE GROUP GIVEN OBSERVER STATUS IN THIS INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION
What is the United Nations?
1000
THIS MUSICIAN WON FIVE GRAMMY AWARDS FOR HIS 1981 HIT "SAILING"
Who is Christopher Cross?