Q 01/05

Nineteen workers caught by a safety net while building which 1930s landmark formed the 'Half Way to Hell Club'?

A) Empire State Building

B) Mount Rushmore

C) Golden Gate Bridge

D) Rockefeller Center

Answer · why

C) Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge had movable netting slung beneath its crews on the orders of chief engineer Joseph Strauss. Eleven men still died, ten of them ...

Q 02/05

A giant storage tank that burst in Boston in 1919 sent a deadly 35 mph wave of what through the streets?

A) Molasses

B) Whisky

C) Maple syrup

D) Kerosene

Answer · why

A) Molasses

Molasses weighing about 13,000 tons killed 21 people and injured 150 when the tank gave way. Witnesses said the rivets shot out of it with a sound lik...

Q 03/05

Guardrails, movable gangways and screens meant only one worker died building which nineteenth-century landmark?

A) Blackpool Tower

B) Eiffel Tower

C) Crystal Palace

D) Statue of Liberty

Answer · why

B) Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower went up with 300 men working on site, and Gustave Eiffel's own precautions kept the toll to a single death.

Q 04/05

Which scientist's research papers are still so radioactive that they are kept in lead-lined boxes?

A) Lise Meitner

B) Enrico Fermi

C) Ernest Rutherford

D) Marie Curie

Answer · why

D) Marie Curie

Marie Curie's notebooks are expected to stay radioactive for well over a thousand years, and anyone who consults them has to put on special clothing f...

Q 05/05

Which cartoon father works as the safety inspector in Sector 7-G of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?

A) Homer Simpson

B) Peter Griffin

C) Hank Hill

D) Fred Flintstone

Answer · why

A) Homer Simpson

Homer Simpson, named by creator Matt Groening after his own father, is unqualified for the post and often neglects his duties or dozes off on the job.