Kansas City Facts & History
Kansas City earned this nickname because it holds more of these than any other city in the World besides Rome
What is the City of Fountains?
This is the most common type of natural disaster (in declarations by federal government).
What are floods?
This nurse founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This river, the longest in North America, runs through Missouri.
What is the Missouri River?
All 191 Red Cross societies worldwide agree on how many fundamental principles? (25 points for each one you can name)
Seven: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, universality
This famous tower in Kansas City was once the tallest west of the Mississippi and is now part of a WWI memorial.
What is the Liberty Memorial?
In 2012, this superstorm caused major flooding in New York and New Jersey.
What is Hurricane Sandy?
This was the year the American Red Cross was founded.
What is 1881?
In 1904, St Louis was the first US city to host this event. Here, snacks & drinks like cotton candy, Dr. Pepper, iced tea, and ice cream cones became popular.
What is the World Fair?
This national Red Cross is known for its world-leading experience in responding to tsunamis, following a massive disaster in 2011.
What is the Japanese Red Cross?
This famous shopping district, inspired by Spanish architecture, was one of the first suburban shopping areas in the U.S
What is the Country Club Plaza?
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake interrupted this televised sports event in California.
What is the World Series?
The Red Cross first gained widespread recognition in the U.S. after providing aid during this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Missouri was admitted to the Union in 1821 as part of this historic compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Red Cross society specializes in Arctic and remote disaster response, uniquely adapted to harsh, cold climates.
What is the Canadian Red Cross?
Arrowhead (GEHA) Stadium earned this award when noise levels reached 142.2 decimals during a Chiefs home game
What is the Guinness World Record for the loudest stadium on the planet?
In 1980, this volcano erupted in Washington state, killing 57 people and causing widespread destruction.
What is Mount St. Helens?
This Geneva-based treaty outlines the protections and principles guiding the Red Cross during armed conflicts.
What is the Geneva Convention?
This infamous 19th-century outlaw was born in Missouri and became a symbol of rebellion in post-Civil War America.
Who is Jesse James?
In 1986, the Red Cross played a key role in evacuation and medical care following this nuclear disaster in the former Soviet Union.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
Kansas City native Bob Bernstein invented this in KC, which sells more than 250 units every second across the United States
What are Happy Meals?
The deadliest wildfire in U.S. history occurred in this Midwestern state in 1871.
What is Wisconsin? (The Peshtigo Fire)
During WWII, these Red Crossers boosted morale by providing donuts, refreshments, and care packages to troops.
Who are the Donut Dollies?
This Missouri city was the birthplace of many famous people, including Eminem, Jesse James, Timothy Omundson, Jane Wyman, & Walter Cronkite
What is St. Joseph?
The ICRC considers its response to this disaster one of it's biggest failures in its entire history
What is the Holocaust?