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1. Which of the following cities was not destroyed by fire?
2. Methyl isocyanate was believed to be the culprit in a gas release from a Union Carbide plant that took over 2,000 lives in this Indian community:
3. One unfortunate side effect of the mass popularity of soccer are the riots that have accompanied some of the games. The deadliest soccer riot in world history occurred after an unfavorable ruling by a referee broke up a game in this country in May, 1964:
4. The explosive compound ammonium nitrate was aboard the French vessel 'Grandcamp' and the 'High Flyer' when both vessels exploded in 1947, levelling this town:
5. One person noted, 'It is an erroneous opinion that the dam burst...it simply moved away.' Massive rains liquidated the South Fork Dam, releasing destruction on this community in the heart of the Conemaugh Valley on May 31, 1889:
6. Toward the end of World War I, a mysterious illness started at Ft. Riley, KS and spread across the globe, claiming millions of lives in one of the worst epidemics since the Black Death of the Middle Ages:
7. The worst man-made environmental disaster ever began in February, 1991 as retreating Iraqi soldiers systematically set fire to two thirds of this country's oil wells:
8. The worst maritime disaster in U.S. history occurred when the boiler of this paddlwheel steamship exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, TN on April 27, 1865:
9. One of the worst nuclear disasters in the Atomic Age occurred at this facility:
10. March 27, 1977 saw the world's worst aviation disaster when two Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jets' collided at this city's airport:
11. How many liners have been lost (with the loss of lives) in the North Atlantic to icebergs since the sinking of the Titanic in 1912?
12. This 'Jewel of the Italian Luxury Fleet' sank after being broadsided by the Swedish liner 'Stockholm' in 1956.
13. The U.S. space race to the moon suffered a serious setback when three astronauts died on the launch pad aboard this spaceship in 1967:
14. U.S. involvment in World War I was brought closer to reality after a German U-boat torpedoed this British liner off the Old Head of Kinsdale, Ireland in May, 1915:
15. This tanker struck a reef and spilled about 10 million gallons of oil off Prince William Sound in Alaska, causing the worst oil spill in U. S. history.
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