Deadliest Disasters in Australian History - Statistics

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Date	Type	Death Toll	Answer	% Correct
2020-2023	Pandemic	19,265	COVID-19	100%
1918-20	Pandemic	12,000	1918 flu pandemic	75%
2009	Heatwave	374	2009 heatwave	75%
1938-39	Heat Wave	438	1938-1939 heatwave	50%
1942	Air Raids	243	First Darwin Bombings	50%
1900-25	Epidemic	535	Bubonic plague	25%
1946-55	Epidemic	1,000	Polio	25%
1789	Epidemic	750+	Smallpox	25%
1895-96	Heat Wave	437	1895-1896 heatwave	0%
1907-08	Heat Wave	246	1907-1908 heatwave	0%
2019-20	Bushfires	479	Black Summer Bushfires	0%
1944	Prison Break	235	Cowra breakout	0%
1899	Cyclone	410	Cyclone Mahina	0%
1951	Volcanic eruption	3,000	Eruption of Mount Lamington	0%
1840-50	Massacre	300+	Gippsland massacres	0%
1867	Epidemic	748	Measles	0%
1875-76	Epidemic	8,000	Scarlet fever	0%
1943	Shipwreck	268	Sinking of AHS Centaur	0%
1845	Shipwreck	406	Sinking of the Cataraqui	0%
1712	Shipwreck	286	Sinking of the Zuytdorp	0%
1891-1910	Epidemic	2,000	Typhoid	0%

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