History of the Atomic Age - Statistics

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Year Description Answer % Correct
1945 First city to be bombed in a nuclear war Hiroshima
95%
1945 Second city to be bombed in a nuclear war Nagasaki
91%
1942 U.S. project to develop nuclear weapons Manhattan Project
89%
1932 The process of merging two light elements Nuclear Fusion
84%
1938 The process of splitting a heavy element into two Nuclear Fission
82%
1986 Soviet power plant that exploded Chernobyl
81%
1945 Atomic element used in the first bomb Uranium
80%
1962 Biggest crisis of the Cold War Cuban Missile Crisis
79%
1945 Atomic element used in the second bomb Plutonium
74%
1945 Codename of the first bomb "Little Boy"
72%
1941 First nuclear war in history World War II
71%
1945 Plane that dropped the first bomb Enola Gay
70%
1967 Non-nuclear kitchen appliance based on radar Microwave Oven
68%
1945 Codename of the second bomb "Fat Man"
63%
2011 Japanese power plant struck by a tsunami Fukushima
49%
1979 U.S. power plant that lost coolant Three Mile Island
46%
1945 "I am become _____, the destroyer of worlds." Death
45%
1962 Meaning of the acronym "MAD" Mutually Assured Destruction
45%
1964 Comedy film about MAD, by Stanley Kubrick Dr. Strangelove
44%
1983 Hypothetical climate change caused by bombs Nuclear Winter
44%
1952 Hydrogen isotope with 1 proton and 1 neutron Deuterium
28%
1945 First nuclear test (codename) Trinity
22%
1979 Film about a nuclear meltdown, starring Jane Fonda The China Syndrome
14%
1945 Plane that dropped the second bomb Bockscar
13%
1958 Method of preserving food by exposure to X-rays Irradiation
10%
1959 Film about waiting for fallout in post-WW3 Australia On the Beach
8%
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