How Did You Survive? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eating butterflies, fresh mussels and fruit.

The search had ended three weeks prior to him being found by locals in a remote area of West Tableland, wearing only a pair of shorts. Experts say it was a miracle he had survived. He lived off of butterflies, fresh mussels and fruits he found while following the Welsh River in an attempt to find help. He was weak and had lost fifteen kilos after a month in the harsh environment.

Answer: Eating his dog.

Being so far from civilization with no food or water, he made the drastic choice of eating his best friend and drinking any moisture he could find. By the time he was rescued, he had lost 40 kilos and was suffering from serve hypothermia and dehydration. That terrible decision may have been the only reason he lived.

Answer: It had been lost at sea.

Scuba diver Peter Trayhurn and his dive partner, Goff Tosio, were spending the day diving and photographing the marine life with his camera in a waterproof casing 8km NSW, Mid-north coast, when their anchor line snapped setting them adrift with no help in sight.

They were eventually spotted by a tanker, who notified the police. The police arrived in a dive boat. Before long that boat had also capsized while returning to port across the treacherous Wooli Bar, but did make it back to land, minus the camera.

A family on holiday found the camera four years later, and thought they would return it by using social media. When Trayhurn recognized the photos, he contacted the family to claim his camera.

Answer: On a wooden coffin floating around him.

In 2014 Fa was collecting eels for extra money when an unexpectedly large wave slammed into him tipping him into the ocean and then carrying him out to sea. He spotted a wooden coffin and held on for 60 hours with no food or water. Being conscious the whole time, he was swept onto a beach in the south-eastern Taitung, 75km away from where he had been fishing.

Answer: He cut off his own right hand.

In 2003, while descending Slot Canyon in Utah, he became trapped after a boulder he was on moved trapping his right arm against the canyon wall. Five days later with no hope of rescue, he was forced to amputate his right hand, using a blunt pocket knife.

He cut through bone, skin, nerves and muscle; it took him one hour and four minutes to sever it. I say hats off to that man, it takes a lot of courage to do what he did.

Answer: Canton, Ohio

The child, who was named Austin, was delivered weighing one pound nine ounces. But being born so premature his organs had not developed enough and his lungs were too weak to keep him alive. He was given a zero chance of surviving. He was given the Anointing of the Sick and Dying. Four hours later he was still fighting, but the family had prepared themselves for the worst. Hours extended to days, days to weeks, and finally after one hundred days he went home.

Answer: 2%

Orange Country Child Protective Services (OCCPS) in California, received an anonymous call about a case of child abuse. During the investigation they found Shyima Hall, who was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Her birth parents did not want to see her grow up in poverty, so they sold her to a wealthy couple in Cairo.

They eventually moved to the USA and brought her in illegally. They locked her up in a 8'×12' section of the garage, she was only allowed out while she was working as their slave. She was only permitted to eat what they would give her; she was forced to sleep on a old filthy mattress and had to wear rags for clothes. On rare occasion she was allowed to shower and wear clean clothes at family events.

By the time OCCPS found her she was weak, and weighed sixty pounds.

They say the conditions were deplorable, mouldy food and human waste on the floor. She was taken into protective custody and her adopted parents were sentenced then deported. The USA is one of the most active in the world against human trafficking.

Answer: The USS Oldendorf

As the USS Oldendorf was heading to the South China Sea on its way from Singapore to the Philippines, there was a typhoon with winds of seventy knots and ten foot swells. They saw an object about ten miles to the east. After getting closer they saw it was a twenty five foot wooden junk boat with fifty men, women and children, who had left their homeland of Vietnam bound for Singapore.

There were fifty seven people who had began the journey; after the first week the motor broke down and they had gone the last ten days with no food or water.

By the time they were rescued, seven of them had died.

Answer: About 1.5 million

One January evening in 1938, Gil and Eleanor Krause began a plan to help as many Jewish children escape Nazi Germany asa they could. A summer camp had been built just outside of Philadelphia by the Broth Shalo; it contained twenty-five bedrooms and hoped to have two children to a room.

But they knew going to Germany themselves could cost them their lives. They obtained fifty-four affidavits from friends and others were willing to support the children. On May 21, 1939, one year after they began their decision, the children and their parents waited on a platform in the Vienna train station. Storm Troopers with attack dogs were all around. Jews were not allowed to give the Nazi salute, even if they raised their hands to wave goodbye, they would be arrested or even shot.

The following morning they arrived at the American Embassy in Berlin where they were interviewed before getting their visas. The next day they set sail on the S.S. President Harding in Hamburg for the next ten days to New York.

In Europe, the Holocaust took the lives of an estimated 1.5 million children. Only 1,000 unaccompanied children were allowed into the U.S.

Answer: August 23 - August 31, 2005

Hurricane Katrina occurred on August 23, 2005 and ended on August 31, 2005.
It killed 1,836 people in the U.S. alone. Among the areas hit were the Bahamas, Southeast Florida, Cuba, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and most of the east coast of Northern America. With more than $108 billion in damages it was the fifth deadliest and costliest hurricane in history.