Quiztime Bombs Quiz
1. Who invented the World War II bouncing bomb?
Barnes Wallace
2. Which Japanese city was flattened by a bomb called ‘big boy’?
Nagasaki
(CORRECTION - Little Boy was the codename of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 by the 12-man crew of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first
atomic bomb ever used as a weapon and was dropped three days before the "Fat Man" bomb was used against Nagasaki.
VIDEO - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/392814/atomic_bomb_little_boy_original_footage/)
3. On 15 May 1957 Britain tested her first Hydrogen Bomb over which Pacific atoll ?
Kiritimati or ‘Christmas Island’
4. What did UXB stand for in ‘Danger UXB’?
Unexploded Bomb - drama series about bomb disposal expert Anthony Andrews who starred with Judy Geeson
5. Which American President ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb?
Harry S. Truman
6. In which sport would you find a Bomb, a Blitz and a Shotgun?
American Football
7. The Fairey Swordfish generally carried which type of bomb?
Torpedoes
8. Which Metropolitan police horse was the victim of a bomb attack on a bandstand in London June 1984?
Sefton
9. Which bomber was adapted to take the ‘bouncing bomb’?
Avro Lancaster
10. What event in australia in the 1950s was divided into phases called dingo, emu, goanna, koala, kookaburra, possum, wombat and platypus?
British Atomic Bomb Testing
11. A bomb exploded in the centre of Manchester on a busy Saturday Morning in which year?
1996
12. What was the name of the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola Gay
13. What ship did the RAF bomb off Cornwall in 1967?
Torrey Canyon
14. What was the name of the project which resulted in the Atomic Bomb?
Manhattan Project
15. Which European city suffered a series of near simultaneous bomb attacks on three railway stations in March 2004, just days before a general election?
Madrid
16. At which Brighton hotel did Margaret Thatcher survive an IRA bomb in October 1984?
Grand Hotel
17. What was the codename of the bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima?
Little Boy
18. What destroyed the Crossroads Motel in 1967?
An old wartime bomb
19. What kind of bomb contains hydrogen sulphide?
Stink Bomb
20. Who was vice president of the US when A bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
No One - there was not one
21. In which year did China explode an atomic bomb to becomes a nuclear power?
1964 - India carried out it’s first ever nuclear bomb test in 1974
22. Name U2s album which features the single Vertigo?
“How to dismantle a Atomic Bomb”
23. What was unusual about the 1997 Grand National?
It was run on A Monday because of IRA bomb threat
24. Which treasury minster was murdered by an IRA bomb outside his home in 1990?
Ian Gow
25. In 1977, The US invented a new bomb that killed people while leaving buildings intact. What was it called?
Neutron Bomb
26. Which Gandhi was assassinated by a bomb during an election campaign in 1991?
Rajiv
27. In which country was the first Atom Bomb made?
USA
28. In ‘Back To The Future’, where did Doc Brown get the plutonium to power the time-travelling DeLorean?
From a group of Lybian terrorists (they wanted him to make a nuclear bomb)
29. What was tested at Bikini Atoll in 1954?
Hydrogen Bomb (Not Atom)
30. In which year did a Pan Am Boeing jumbo jet crash into the Scottish town of Lockerbie as a result of a bomb?
1998
31. Which Movie plot - following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal…?
Godzilla
32. What Australian islands did the British experiment with an atomic bomb explosion in 1952?
Monte Bello Islands
33. In which New Mexico city was the atomic bomb developed?
Los Alamos
34. Who was killed by an IRA car bomb in the underground car park of the House of Commons in 1979?
Airey Neave
35. The V1 flying bomb used by the Germans against London and southern England in 1944 was given a more popular name by the British people had what name?
Doodlebug
36. Harold Edgerton has taken all the worlds photos of what?
US nuclear bomb explosions
37. Whose picture was on the A-Bomb dropped on Bikini?
Rita Hayworth
38. By law every Swiss citizen must have access to what?
Personal bomb shelter
39. In 2000 Howard Brown sang Extra in a Halifax advert, with the lyrics set to which former Tom Jones hit?
Sex Bomb
40. True or False - If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb?
True
Tiebreaker - In which year - A Terrorist bomb reeks havoc in Oklahoma City killing 158 people?
1995 - city was rocked by a bomb planted outside a federal building
235 = I of U in the AB = Isotope of Uranium in the Atomic Bomb
