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1. When a U.S. Army Air Corp B-24 malfunctioned and crashed into the sea on May 27, 1943, Lt. Louis Zamperini managed to survive aboard a lifeboat for 47 days, only to jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Why?
2. A young Polish cavalry officer named Slavomir Rawicz was captured by Soviet forces in World War II and imprisoned in a gulag. He escaped and hiked how many miles before being rescued by a Gurkha patrol?
3. Poon Lim, a 25-year-old Chinese seaman, was set adrift on a raft after his ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. As of 2021, he held the world record for the longest survival on a life raft. How many days did he survive adrift at sea?
4. Pasquale Buzzelli felt the walls crack. About two hours later, he regained consciousness on a slab of concrete 180 feet below the 22nd floor of what building?
5. Mountaineer Aaron Ralston survived a canyoneering accident. What did he have to do to make it out alive?
6. In June of 2006, Truman Duncan survived being run over by what vehicle?
7. On a Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov was the only medical professional. Unfortunately, this meant he was forced to perform what life-saving operation on himself?
8. Who, according to one of his own assassins, ate two poisoned tea cakes, drank three glasses of poisoned wine, was shot in the chest, and then shot again sometime later before he finally died?
9. In 1972, Eduardo Strauch survived 72 days stranded on a glacier. He and the other survivors resorted to cannibalism to survive. What bestselling book by Piers Paul Read did this survival incident inspire?
10. Steven Callahan survived for 76 days adrift on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean. Director Ang Lee later asked him to be a consultant on living aboard a life raft for what movie?
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