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Understanding Hurricane Katrina: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz tests knowledge about Hurricane Katrina, focusing on critical events, responses, and impacts associated with the hurricane.

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1 What type of thing is Hurricane Katrina?

2 What is the name of the hurricane that struck in 2005?

3 Prior to the storm, subsidence and ________ caused erosion in the Louisiana wetlands and bayous.

4 Eight days later, Brown was recalled to Washington and Coast Guard Vice Admiral ________ replaced him as chief of hurricane relief operations.

5 A number of ________ were made throughout the affected area, including some near the New Orleans Convention Center.

6 When did Hurricane Katrina dissipate?

7 When did Hurricane Katrina form?

8 Criticism was initially prompted by televised images of visibly shaken and frustrated political leaders, and of residents who remained stranded by flood waters without water, ________ or shelter.

9 The total damage from Katrina is estimated at $81.2 billion (2005 U.S. dollars), nearly double the cost of the previously most expensive storm, ________, when adjusted for inflation.

10 The resulting ________ storm moved rapidly to the northeast and affected eastern Canada.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina.
  • in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Secretary of State Al Ater was said to have overseen the "cleanest mayor's election in modern times" in New Orleans.
  • in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief.
  • the 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion resulted in thirteen deaths and the first major shutdown of a US sugar refinery since Hurricane Katrina.
  • the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts is the first of three major theaters in New Orleans, USA, to reopen since Hurricane Katrina struck the city in August 2005.
  • the remnants of 2005's Tropical Depression Ten partially contributed to the formation of Hurricane Katrina.
  • the SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, using Semantic Web technologies.
  • head coach Chris Scelfo's Tulane football team was forced to play all eleven of its games in different cities during the 2005 season after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans.
  • former Louisiana Legislative Auditor Dan Kyle has joined a new company trying to rebuild Six Flags New Orleans, which has been closed since Hurricane Katrina.
  • Congregation Beth Israel of New Orleans, Louisiana, severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was flooded again in 2007.
  • Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
  • ImageAmerica provided Google Earth with high resolution black and white images of New Orleans immediately after the events of Hurricane Katrina.
  • a National Weather Service bulletin for New Orleans, Louisiana, warned of "human suffering incredible by modern standards" before Hurricane Katrina's landfall.
  • chef Austin Leslie (pictured), known as the Godfather of Fried Chicken, died in Atlanta after being evacuated from New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
  • as Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans it underwent an eyewall replacement cycle that caused it to decrease in intensity but increase in diameter.
  • Louisiana State Senator Jack Donahue through his philanthropic Suited for Success helped Hurricane Katrina victims refurbish their business clothing.
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