| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The beginning of our universe approximately 13.8 billion years ago | The Big Bang | 98%
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| City that suffered the first nuclear bomb attack in 1945 | Hiroshima | 89%
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| Term for a gasoline bomb in a bottle | {Molotov} cocktail | 79%
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| Invention of Alfred Nobel | Dynamite | 78%
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| The explosion of a large star | Supernova | 78%
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| Active ingredient in the above | {Nitro}glycerin | 72%
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| Explosive invented in China in the 9th century | Gunpowder | 70%
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| Notable examples include Pinatubo, Etna, and Eyjafjallajökull | Volcano | 69%
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| Name of the bomb itself | {Little} Boy | 66%
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| The short name of the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene | TNT | 60%
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| Middle East city which had a massive ammonia nitrate explosion in 2020 | Beirut | 57%
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| Plastic explosive, invented in 1958, known by a letter and a number | C-4 | 57%
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| Place where the U.S. tested nuclear weapons from 1946–1958 | {Bikini} Atoll | 56%
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| Name of the plane which dropped the bomb | {Enola} Gay | 53%
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| Mexican peninsula where an asteroid or comet struck 66 million years ago, a bad day for dinosaurs | Yucatan | 52%
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| Director of "Transformers" and "Armageddon", known for including lots of explosions in his movies | Michael Bay | 48%
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| The largest nuclear bomb ever tested, more than 3000 times more powerful than the above | {Tsar} Bomba | 46%
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| The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana triggered a war between the United States and this country | Spain | 45%
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| This type of gun may save your life. But it also started the concert fire memorialized in the song "Smoke on the Water". | {Flare} gun | 39%
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| Bizarrely, Sweden has recently had an epidemic of bombings using this military weapon | Grenade | 31%
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