Largest explosions quiz - Statistics

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TNT equivalent	Date	Record	Hint	Answer	% Correct
22,000 tons	9th August, 1945	Largest explosion ever used in armed combat	The nuclear bomb used at Nagasaki	Fat Man	77%
57 megatons	October 30, 1961	The largest manmade explosion/largest nuclear explosion	Despite humans detonating over 2,000 nuclear weapons through history, the yield of this Soviet nuke accounts for 10% of the yield for all nuclear weapons combined	Tsar-Bomba	77%
11 tons	2003	Largest non-nuclear weapon test	American weapon, claims to be the largest conventional explosive	MOAB	46%
44 tons	2007	Largest non-nuclear weapon test	Russian bomb, claims to be 4 times more powerful than the American one, but authenticity is questioned	FOAB	36%
800 megatons	April 5, 1815	Largest recorded explosion ever experienced by humans/Largest volcanic eruption on record	This volcano on the island of Sumbawa erupted causing global climate change and harvest failure	Mount Tambora	28%
15 megatons	June 30, 1908	Largest impact event known to man	A massive explosion occurring in Siberia, strongly believed to be a meteor impact event	Tunguska Event	28%
3,000 tons	6 December 1917	Possible largest accidental explosion	A Norwegian steamship collided with a French cargo ship carrying TNT in a Canadian harbour-town	Halifax Explosion	26%
96 teratons	65,000,000 B.C.	Largest explosion known to have taken place on Earth	An impact event at the end of the Cretaceous Period that caused the death of 60% of life on Earth, including the total extinction of these large reptiles	Dinosaurs	15%
2Ã-1038 tons	11,000,000,000 B.C.	Largest explosion ever recorded	A gamma-ray burst observed in 2008, the equivalent of 100 Billion times the yield of all man-made nukes exploding every second for 100 Billion years, condensed to 23 minutes	GRB 080916C	3%
2.5Ã-1035 tons	230,000,000 B.C.	Largest recorded supernova	A supernova observed in 2006	SN2006gy	3%
6,000 tons	4th October, 1918	Possible largest accidental explosion	A devastating explosion at an explosives facility in Sayreville, New Jersey	T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion	0%

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