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Disaster Questions

Dozens of disaster questions developed over many years test your knowledge of important disaster principles and practices.

Question #283 - February 10, 2010
Draft National Disaster Recovery Framework

Question #282 - February 10, 2010
Pandemic H1N1 Influenza 2009

Question #281 - February 10, 2010
2010 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report

Question #280 - February 10, 2010
Leasing of U.S. Base Guantánamo Bay

Question #279 - February 10, 2010
Yemen’s Terrorist Organizations Post December 25, 2009

Question #278 - December 29, 2009
The World’s Great Aquifer Systems

Question #277 - December 29, 2009
Dr. George Burkley and President John F. Kennedy

Question #276 - December 29, 2009
Dr. Sara Jordan and President John F. Kennedy

Question #275 - November 22, 2009
Radicalization to al Qaeda Inspired Violence

Question #274 - November 22, 2009
Fort Hood, Texas, murders November 5, 2009

Question #273 - November 22, 2009
Tarim Basin Mummies

Question #272 - November 22, 2009
Persian-Invented Squinch

Question #271 - November 22, 2009
Anti-vaccinationism

Question #270 - November 22, 2009
History of smallpox vaccination

Question #269 - November 22, 2009
NY compulsory vaccination controversy

Question #268 - October 14, 2009
Dr. Paul A. O’Leary’s Rendezvous with JFK

Question #267 - October 14, 2009
Rhinovirus vs. Swine Flu Virus in Sweden

Question #266 - October 14, 2009
2008 Olean Release, Petrolia, Pennsylvania

Question #265 - October 14, 2009
Reverend Henning Jacobson

Question #264 - September 29, 2009
Fire Service Intelligence Enterprise

Question #263 - September 29, 2009
National Oversight High Containment Laboratories

Question #262 - September 29, 2009
Open source information

Question #261 - September 29, 2009
History of Cortisone at Mayo Clinic

Question #260 - August 30, 2009
National Interagency Biodefense Campus

Question #259 - August 30, 2009
Law enforcement intelligence

Question #258 - August 30, 2009
Polling on CDC Vaccination Strategy, Fall 2009 Influenza Pandemic

Question #257 - August 30, 2009
CDC Pandemic Vaccination Strategies

Question #256 - August 30, 2009
Bayer CropScience Accident, Kansas City, MO

Question #255 - August 17, 2009
Fall 2009 Wave of Influenza Pandemic: Serious or Mild?

Question #254 - August 17, 2009
1957-58 and 2009 Pandemic Influenza Similarities

Question #253 - August 17, 2009
1918 Influenza Pandemic, U.S. Army Perspective

Question #252 - August 17, 2009
Dr. Victor Vaughan: U.S. Army Camp Diseases, 1917-1918

Question #251 - August 17, 2009
Foot-and-mouth disease and proposed new National Bio and Agro Defense Facility

Question #250 - July 28, 2009
Influenzal Sinusitis

Question #249 - July 28, 2009
Severe Winter of 1917-1918

Question #248 - July 28, 2009
National Level Exercise, Tier 1

Question #247 - July 28, 2009
Bonus Army Riot, 1932

Question #246 - July 28, 2009
Matter: Bonus Army, Root Causes

Question #245 - July 13, 2009
Dr. Lasker on Protective Home Isolation

Question #244 - July 13, 2009
Health Care Professional Influenza Vaccination

Question #243 - July 13, 2009
Labor Day Hurricane, Florida Keys, 1935

Question #242 - June 29, 2009
Winston Churchill on America’s Presidential Selection Process

Question #241 - June 29, 2009
Biosafety vs. biosecurity

Question #240 - June 29, 2009
Lusitania Disaster

Question #239 - June 14, 2009
Dr. Tara O’Toole

Question #238 - June 14, 2009
Hoovervilles

Question #237 - June 14, 2009
CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH

Question #236 - May 16, 2009
Origin of Human Influenza Pandemics

Question #235 - May 16, 2009
Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore’s book Survival

Question #234 - May 16, 2009
Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster, West Virginia

Question #233 - May 15, 2009
Silicosis in America, 1880-1920

Question #232 - May 02, 2009
Chemical Industry Culture

Question #231 - May 02, 2009
Bayer Pesticide Plant Disaster 2008

Question #230 - May 01, 2009
Birth of the Republic of Turkey

Question #229 - May 01, 2009
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Question #228 - April 26, 2009
CDC: Richard E. Besser

Question #227 - April 26, 2009
Flawed 1976 National “Swine Flu” Influenza Immunization

Question #226 - April 26, 2009
Swine Flu

Question #225 - April 26, 2009
FEMA Nomination of Craig Fugate

Question #224 - April 20, 2009
FEMA’s Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101

Question #223 - April 20, 2009
FEMA Discontinuation of Housing Benefits for Katrina/Rita Hurricane Victims

Question #222 - April 20, 2009
Ancient Hittite Civilization’s Resilience to Catastrophe

Question #221 - April 20, 2009
Evolution of Metallurgy in Ancient Anatolia

Question #220 - April 20, 2009
NORAD Command Center Vulnerability

Question #219 - March 19, 2009
University of Chicago Medical Center’s Urban Health Initiative

Question #218 - March 19, 2009
“Ike Dike” Proposal to Protect Houston/Galveston from Storm Surge

Question #217 - March 19, 2009
Jebel Marra

Question #216 - March 06, 2009
Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC)

Question #215 - March 06, 2009
Secretary Napolitano Testimony on Department of Homeland Security

Question #214 - March 06, 2009
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

Question #213 - March 06, 2009
Catalhoyuk

Question #212 - February 24, 2009
History of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) 2002-2009

Question #211 - February 24, 2009
Social Media during Disasters

Question #210 - February 24, 2009
Federal Real ID Act

Question #209 - February 24, 2009
Governor Janet Napolitano’s Senate Hearing for Secretary Homeland Security

Question #208 - February 07, 2009
AFRICOM

Question #207 - February 07, 2009
FEMA’s National Disaster Housing Strategy

Question #206 - February 07, 2009
U.S. Airspace Sovereignty

Question #205 - January 30, 2009
FEMA’s James Lee Witt

Question #204 - January 30, 2009
Deobandis

Question #203 - December 23, 2008
Mehrgarh Neolithic Site, Pakistan

Question #202 - December 18, 2008
Topic area: Sacramento Regional Flooding

Question #201 - December 18, 2008
Pakistan and India’s Enduring Rivalry

Question #200 - December 11, 2008
Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan

Question #199 - December 11, 2008
FEMA’s Near Death Experience 1992-1994

Question #198 - December 11, 2008
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility

Question #197 - November 27, 2008
State Emergency Management Agency Websites

Question #196 - November 27, 2008
Earthquake in the Central USA

Question #195 - November 27, 2008
History of Mount Weather

Question #194 - November 27, 2008
TWA Flight 514 Crash December 1974

Question #193 - November 27, 2008
S&P Index and 2007-2008 Economic Disaster

Question #192 - November 10, 2008
El Paso Natural Gas and California’s 2000-2001 Energy Crisis

Question #191 - November 10, 2008
El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture, New Mexico, 2000

Question #190 - November 10, 2008
FEMA/EMI’s Emergency Management Principles

Question #189 - November 04, 2008
Standardization of training for BSL-4 laboratory workers

Question #188 - November 04, 2008
College Presidents on the Failed Bear Stearns Board

Question #187 - November 04, 2008
Foreclosed homes with swimming pools: source of West Nile virus outbreak

Question #186 - November 04, 2008
Federal regulators’ role in financial markets

Question #185 - October 27, 2008
American Economy during the Clinton Administration 1993-2001

Question #184 - October 27, 2008
National Governors’ Association on Comprehensive Emergency Management

Question #183 - October 27, 2008
Perimeter Security around BSL-4 Laboratories

Question #182 - October 27, 2008
Political Economy of FEMA

Question #181 - October 06, 2008
Strategic Petroleum Stockpile

Question #180 - October 06, 2008
Wachovia Bank and Commonfund

Question #179 - October 06, 2008
Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payouts

Question #178 - October 06, 2008
Galveston National BSL-Lab and Hurricane Ike

Question #177 - September 21, 2008
National Flood Insurance Program

Question #176 - September 21, 2008
Which of the following statements about the new FEMA is TRUE?

Question #175 - September 21, 2008
Cost of US Disasters 1989-2007

Question #174 - September 21, 2008
Modernist Memorial Architecture

Question #173 - September 21, 2008
History of Anthrax Vaccine

Question #172 - August 12, 2008
Sofa Super Store Fire, Charleston, SC, 2007

Question #171 - August 12, 2008
Mass Gatherings/Public Health Security

Question #170 - August 12, 2008
US Air Force Nuclear Weapons Program

Question #169 - August 12, 2008
Hospital Emergency Standards

Question #168 - August 12, 2008
Algeria: Prologue to Revolution (1900-1943)

Question #167 - May 08, 2008
Indonesia and the US Navy Medical Research Unit

Question #166 - May 08, 2008
Mississippi Recovery from Hurricane Katrina

Question #165 - May 06, 2008
Race riots in 1919

Question #164 - May 08, 2008
Chinese holdings of US Treasury securities

Question #163 - April 30, 2008
Disaster Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations, Patients, and Residents of Health Care Facilities

Question #162 - April 30, 2008
Integrationism and Nationalism in African-American Intellectual History

Question #161 - April 30, 2008
America’s Bubblequake Economy

Question #160 - April 30, 2008
High Gasoline Prices: Oil Bubble or a New Fact of Life?

Question #159 - April 27, 2008
Strategic Petroleum Reserve Status Post Hurricane Katrina

Question #158 - April 22, 2008
Content Matter of Black Liberation Theology

Question #157 - April 22, 2008
Origin of Black Power and Black Theology of Liberation

Question #156 - April 22, 2008
The Jesus Bag

Question #155 - April 22, 2008
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

Question #154 - April 09, 2008
Rhetoric and Oratory

Question #153 - April 09, 2008
National Response Framework

Question #152 - April 08, 2008
Federal Regulation of Chemical Facilities

Question #151 - March 15, 2008
Biology of Precipitation

Question #150 - March 14, 2008
Salton Sea Trough

Question #149 - March 14, 2008
Smallpox vaccine acquisition and vaccination strategies

Question #148 - February 27, 2008
How Diana Spencer Died

Question #147 - February 27, 2008
Topic Matter: French Prehospital Trauma Care System

Question #146 - February 27, 2008
Mental Illness as Growing Proportion of Global Burden of Disease

Question #145 - February 27, 2008
Global Burden of Disease

Question #144 - January 28, 2008
State and Local Government Expenditures

Question #143 - January 28, 2008
State and Local Governments’ Fiscal Future

Question #142 - January 26, 2008
“Forestalling” an Influenza Pandemic

Question #141 - January 26, 2007
Global Tamiflu Pandemic Preparedness

Question #140 - January 26, 2008
Influenza Physician Testing Patterns

Question #139 - January 26, 2008
Tamiflu Physician Prescribing Patterns

Question #138 - November 09, 2007
Venezuela’s Rentier State

Question #137 - November 09, 2007
School Shooters/Threat Assessment

Question #136 - November 09, 2007
Intelligence-Led Policing US

Question #135 - October 22, 2007
Intelligence-Led Policing UK

Question #133 - October 22, 2007
New National Response Framework

Question #132 - October 22, 2007
New National Strategy for Homeland Security (October 2007)

Question #131 - October 22, 2007
TOPOFF 4 in Guam

Question #130 - October 22, 2007
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez

Question #129 - October 17, 2007
Federal Disaster Relief

Question #128 - October 17, 2007
Influence of Catastrophes on Political Organization

Question #127 - October 17, 2007
National Preparedness Guidelines 2007

Question #126 - October 17, 2007
Damaged Vehicles during Disaster Recovery

Question #125 - October 09, 2007
Safety Breaches in Biosafety Containment Laboratories

Question #124 - October 09, 2007
Personal Protective Equipment during Breaking Epidemic

Question #123 - October 09, 2007
Hong Kong Bubonic Plague Epidemic 1894

Question #122 - October 09, 2007
World Health Organization’s Global Public Health Security Initiative

Question #121 - August 28, 2007
Composition of Interstellar Matter

Question #120 - August 28, 2007
Milky Way

Question #119 - August 28, 2007
Meteorites

Question #118 - August 28, 2007
Meteorites

Question #117 - August 28, 2007
Panspermia

Question #116 - July 27, 2007
Good Information during Large Disasters

Question #115 - July 27, 2007
U.S. Department of Defense Progress on Disease Outbreak Planning and Preparedness

Question #114 - July 27, 2007
Mycobacteria Lung Disease from Potting Soil

Question #113 - July 13, 2007
Dawn Space Mission to the Asteroid Belt

Question #112 - July 13, 2007
Emergency Alert System

Question #111 - July 13, 2007
Irish Frost of 1740

Question #110 - July 13, 2007
Emergency Use Authorization of Unapproved Medical Products

Question #109 - July 13, 2007
Critical Infrastructure Protection

Question #108 - July 05, 2007
TB hazard and airplane travel

Question #107 - July 05, 2007
TB hazard and domesticated wildlife

Question #106 - July 05, 2007
TB hazard and medication non-compliance

Question #105 - July 05, 2007
TB hazard and mass immigration to Israel

Question #104 - June 21, 2007
Torino Scale

Question #103 - June 21, 2007
Near-Earth Objects

Question #102 - June 21, 2007
Comets

Question #101 - June 13, 2007
Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision Theory

Question #100 - June 13, 2007
Methane in the Atmosphere

Question #99 - June 13, 2007
Dendrochronology

Question #98 - May 30, 2007
Health and the Rise of Civilization

Question #97 - May 30, 2007
Health and the Rise of Civilization

Question #96 - May 30, 2007
Propane Gas Explosions

Question #95 - May 30, 2007
Columbia Basin Basalt Lava Flows

Question #94 - May 30, 2007
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Question #93 - May 30, 2007
Glacial Lake Outburst Flood

Question #92 - May 22, 2007
Local Emergency Preparedness Committee (LEPC)

Question #91 - May 22, 2007
Rumor Control during Disasters

Question #90 - May 22, 2007
N95 Respirator Masks for the Public

Question #89 - April 16, 2007
National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Performance during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Question #88 - April 15, 2007
Credentialing and Medical Volunteers during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Question #87 - April 15, 2007
States Public Health Service (USPHS) Performance during 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Question #86 - April 13, 2007
Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Performance during 2005 Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Question #85 - November 08, 2006

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Question #82 - November 08, 2006

Question #81 - August 22, 2006

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Question #76 - August 22, 2006

Question #75 - August 07, 2006

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Question #72 - May 22, 2006

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Question #66 - April 09, 2006

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Question #63 - February 13, 2006

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Question #58 - December 27, 2005

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Question #54 - November 14, 2005

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Question #51 - August 15, 2005

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Question #46 - July 11, 2005

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Question #40 - June 04, 2005

Question #39 - May 12, 2005

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Question #37 - May 11, 2005

Question #36 - May 10, 2005

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Question #30 - January 13, 2005

Question #29 - January 12, 2005

Question #28 - January 11, 2005

Question #27 - January 10, 2005

Question #26 - December 14, 2004

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Question #24 - December 13, 2004

Question #23 - November 22, 2004

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Question #18 - November 14, 2004

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Question #16 - November 09, 2004

Question #15 - November 08, 2004

Question #14 - November 01, 2004

Question #13 - November 01, 2004

Question #12 - October 21, 2004

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Question #10 - October 21, 2004

Question #9 - September 30, 2004

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Question #6 - September 12, 2004

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Question #3 - August 21, 2004

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Question #1 - July 27, 2004