Paraphernalia Grotto

July 18, 1966: Gemini 10 launches

Gemini 10 was the 8th manned mission of the Gemini program and crewed by command pilot John Young and pilot Michael Collins. The pair docked with an Agena Target Vehicle and rendezvoused with Gemini 8's ATV, and Collins became the first person to perform two consecutive spacewalks.

The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, 114 years ago, so this week's 15 questions are all about disasters of all kinds in history. Do you have the knowledge and skills to survive in... The Disaster Zone?

(See Week 1: Don't Be Fooled! and Week 2: Where Did They Go?)

Reblog with your answers under a “Read More” cut. 

Use only your own mind. Do not look anything up. Do not look at what other people have answered.  I will try to reblog this post twice a day so that everyone who wants to play sees it. If you follow me and don’t want to see it on your dashboard over and over again, blacklist “#Q&April”.  The answers will be posted one week from today. (That’s on Wednesday, the 22nd of April.)

This 1953 film based on a book by Walter Lord is still considered one of the most accurate depictions of the sinking of the Titanic.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 began with a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in this Southeast Asian nation.

Infamous sites of this environmental disaster? The Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the Persian Gulf in 1991, and Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989.

A technical mix-up between metric and customary measurements wrecked a space probe bound for this planet in 1999.

John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Library stands on Boston’s Columbia Point, a headland his great-grandparents would have passed when escaping this calamity.

A terrorist bomb destroyed the Clipper Maid of the Seas over Lockerbie, Scotland in this legendary airline’s worst loss of life— and within 4 years, the after-effects had destroyed the company itself.

In the shadow of Vesuvius, the lost cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae all lie on the shores of this Italian bay— and so does the modern city that gives it its name.

Filled with this flammable gas, the airship Hindenburg met a fiery end over Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937.

Nature’s 40-year reclamation of the “ghost city” of Pripyat in this country has provided ecologists with an unexpected laboratory.

Unusually for an English-language popular song, Gordon Lightfoot’s tribute to this 1975 shipwreck is in 6/8 time, giving it a unique and haunting quality.

Tinker Air Force Base near this state’s capital City was the site of history’s first tornado forecast in 1948.

When an earthquake interrupted a pro baseball game in this metro area in 1989, one sportscaster called it “The greatest opening in the history of television, bar none!”

“…attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act-- a triumph of desire over sensibility.”, begins this personal account of an unfortunate expedition.

This ship went under near the Pitcairn Islands in 1790, but it was the replica built for a 1962 film that sank in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy.

This 1953 film based on a book by Walter Lord is still considered one of the most accurate depictions of the sinking of the Titanic. - A Night to Remember (Great movie)

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 began with a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in this Southeast Asian nation. - Banda Aceh

Infamous sites of this environmental disaster? The Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the Persian Gulf in 1991, and Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989. - What is an oil spill?

A technical mix-up between metric and customary measurements wrecked a space probe bound for this planet in 1999. - pass

John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Library stands on Boston’s Columbia Point, a headland his great-grandparents would have passed when escaping this calamity. -pass

A terrorist bomb destroyed the Clipper Maid of the Seas over Lockerbie, Scotland in this legendary airline’s worst loss of life— and within 4 years, the after-effects had destroyed the company itself. - What was Pan Am?

In the shadow of Vesuvius, the lost cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae all lie on the shores of this Italian bay— and so does the modern city that gives it its name. - What is the Bay of Naples?

Filled with this flammable gas, the airship Hindenburg met a fiery end over Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937. - What is hydrogen?

Nature’s 40-year reclamation of the “ghost city” of Pripyat in this country has provided ecologists with an unexpected laboratory. -pass

Unusually for an English-language popular song, Gordon Lightfoot’s tribute to this 1975 shipwreck is in 6/8 time, giving it a unique and haunting quality. - What was the SS Edmund Fitzgerald? (fun fact: my niece could see the docks in Allouez from previous house. I don't know if that's why she named her dog Fitz. I'll have to ask)

Tinker Air Force Base near this state’s capital City was the site of history’s first tornado forecast in 1948. - Where is Oklahoma?

When an earthquake interrupted a pro baseball game in this metro area in 1989, one sportscaster called it “The greatest opening in the history of television, bar none!” - Where is Oakland, CA? ( I was watching the World Series on TV when it hit)

“…attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act-- a triumph of desire over sensibility.”, begins this personal account of an unfortunate expedition. -pass

This ship went under near the Pitcairn Islands in 1790, but it was the replica built for a 1962 film that sank in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy. - pass