WATER
FIRE
EARTH
AIR
PLASMA
100
The year the Titanic sank.
What is 1912?
100
Factory fire that killed 146 garment workers (1911).
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
100
The recent disaster from which we will rebuild (2024). 
What is the New York earthquake?
100
The river that Captain Sully landed US Airways Flight 1549 on (2009).
What is the Hudson River?
100
Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of this volcano.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
200
Swedish ship that sank 1,400 yards into her maiden voyage (1628).
What is the Vasa?
200
Animal that supposedly started the Great Chicago Fire (1871).
What is a cow?
200
The Great Famine (1845-52) halved the population of this European country by the end of the century.
What is Ireland?
200
Accident in New Jersey (1937) that caused 35 fatalities.
What is the Hindenburg disaster?
200
Worst nuclear disaster in history (1986).
What is Chernobyl?
300
The Great Lake that claimed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald (1975).
What is Lake Superior?
300
Ohio river that has caught fire more than a dozen times.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
300
The lack of dryland farming methods is partly to blame for this period of time (1930s).
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
This type of bridge collapsed in 1940 due to aeroelastic flutter.
What is a suspension bridge?
300
Largest marine oil spill in history (2010).
What is the Gulf Oil Spill / Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill / BP Oil Spill?
400
The Sultana exploded (1865) on this river while carrying recently released Union soldiers north leading to the largest maritime disaster in U.S. history.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
We know a pure oxygen atmosphere in a spacecraft is a bad idea because of this mission’s failed launch test (1967).
What is Apollo 1?
400
Miners were rescued from caves in this South American country after 69 days (2010).
What is Chile?
400
The first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight (1986).
What was the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
400
2.3 million gallons of molasses flooded this New England city in 1919.
What is Boston?
500
The deadliest natural weather disaster in American history (hurricane).
What is the 1900 Galveston hurricane?
500
The Iroquois Theater fire prompted the widespread implementation of this type of external door (1903).
What are doors that open outward (with a “panic bar”)?
500
The Winter of Terror (1950-51) was a three-month period during which this European mountain range suffered 649 avalanches.
What are the Alps?
500
The Tri-State Tornado (1925) impacted these three states.
What are Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana?
500
The deadliest American industrial accident occurred in this southern U.S. state in 1947 when there was a fire aboard the SS Grandcamp (docked at port), detonating her cargo of about 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate and starting a chain reaction of fires and explosions aboard other ships and in nearby oil-storage facilities.
What is Texas?