Q 01/05

Yossi Ghinsberg's Amazon ordeal from I Shouldn't Be Alive became the 2017 film Jungle, starring which actor?

A) Elijah Wood

B) Robert Pattinson

C) Daniel Radcliffe

D) Eddie Redmayne

Answer · why

C) Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Radcliffe played Ghinsberg in Jungle, a thriller about the three weeks the backpacker spent lost and alone in 1981. The series had told the sam...

Q 02/05

The final I Shouldn't Be Alive episode follows a helicopter crew who ditched at sea during which 1991 weather event?

A) The Perfect Storm

B) Hurricane Bob

C) The Storm of the Century

D) Hurricane Andrew

Answer · why

A) The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm left an Air National Guard rescue helicopter unable to refuel, so its crew ditched off Long Island. The same nor'easter inspired Seb...

Q 03/05

Who led rescuers to injured adventure racer Danelle Ballengee, as shown in an I Shouldn't Be Alive episode?

A) Her brother

B) Her dog

C) A park ranger

D) A fellow racer

Answer · why

B) Her dog

Her dog Taz, a shepherd-retriever mix, turned up alone at the trailhead and led searchers five miles to where she lay. Ballengee had broken her pelvis...

Q 04/05

Steven Callahan, whose 76 days on a raft feature in I Shouldn't Be Alive, later advised which sea-survival film?

A) Cast Away

B) All Is Lost

C) Kon-Tiki

D) Life of Pi

Answer · why

D) Life of Pi

Life of Pi director Ang Lee asked Callahan to advise on living aboard a raft, and he made lures and tools seen on screen. His own drift across the Atl...

Q 05/05

What rammed and sank a family's boat on the Zambezi in the I Shouldn't Be Alive episode Blood in the Water?

A) A hippopotamus

B) A Nile crocodile

C) A bull elephant

D) A Cape buffalo

Answer · why

A) A hippopotamus

A hippopotamus capsized the boat, leaving four people standing through the night on a flooding sandbar as crocodiles circled. A fifth swam for help an...

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