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This is the most common blood type

What is O+?

100

The most common disaster the Red Cross responds to

What is a home fire?

100
This is the acronym used for all disaster relief operations

What is DRO?

100

It's a ledge! It's a precipice! No, it's the current CEO of the American Red Cross!

Who is Cliff Holtz?

100

Shortly after the US Civil War, the American Red Cross was founded in this year

What is 1881?

200

This is the least common blood type

What is AB-?

200

This is what a hurricane is called in the Eastern Hemisphere

What is a typhoon?

200
The highest ranking Disaster employee within Massachusetts

What is the RDO (Regional Disaster Officer)?

200

The family whose name appears on this building

Who is the Remillard family?

200

Birthplace of Clara Barton, this Worcester County town still hosts a Museum

What is Oxford, MA?

300

It's not a goblin, but pretty close - this is the protein that makes blood red

What is hemoglobin?

300

It's a pint! It's a growler! No, it's the coldest temperature ever recorded in Massachusetts!

It's -40 degrees!

300

It's not Desert Rock Airport - DRA in Red Cross lingo stands for something else

What is Disaster Response Area?

300

She serves as the Executive Director of Central and Western Massachusetts

Who is Nia Rennix?

300

The very first recorded blood transfusion was completed in this year, which is also an anagram of the year the US declared independence from Britain

What is 1667?

400

I'll drink to that! The average amount of blood in a standard donation

What is 1 pint (500ml)?

400

Probably entering its midlife crisis by now, FEMA was founded this year

What is 1979?

400
Ding-dong! Every blood donor has this unique identifier

What is a DIN (Donor Identification Number)?

400

It's a baby! The youngest person in this room

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400

The American Red Cross received its first ever Congressional Charter this year, which is also the year Hawaii became a US state

What is 1900?

500

Take mine, please! This blood type is considered the "Universal Donor"

What is O-?

500

In a fire emergency, the National Fire Protection Association sets this as a standard Fire Department response time

What is 8 minutes?

500

Touchdown? Safety? Red Cross services to military members and their families operate under this acronym

What is SAF (Service to the Armed Forces)?

500

The single most important person in the American Red Cross

You! Our Volunteers!

500

Clara Barton was born this year, and she shares a birth year with Louis Vuitton, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Mary Baker Eddy

What is 1821?