From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 1, Round 4 - Science - Space Exploration   
   >   
   > 7. NEAR-Shoemaker was the first spacecraft to orbit and land on   
   >    an asteroid.  Which asteroid did it land on in 2001?   
      
   Ganymede   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 6 - History - Disasters   
   >   
   > And now for an uplifting History topic tonight -- disasters.   
   >   
   > 1. We'll start in Boston in 1919.  A large storage tank burst at   
   >    a distillery, sending a dense liquid rushing through the streets.   
   >    The spill killed 21 people and injured 150.  Name the spilled   
   >    liquid, which can be fermented to produce ethanol.   
      
   Syrup   
      
   > 3. On 2004-12-26 a magnitude 9.1 earthquake killed an estimated   
   >    227,000 people across 14 countries -- mostly through the   
   >    resulting tsunamis up to 30 m high.  The epicenter was off the   
   >    west coast of which island?   
      
   Sumatra   
      
   > 4. Name the city in India where more than 3,800 people were killed   
   >    by a gas leak from a pesticide plant in 1984.   
      
   Bhopal   
      
   > 5. That plant in Bhopal was owned by a subsidiary of which American   
   >    chemical company?   
      
   Union Carbide   
      
   > 7. Within 50, how many people died in the 1917 Halifax Explosion?   
      
   750   
      
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