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Landslide: Movie and Natural Disasters Quiz

Test your knowledge on the movie 'Landslide' and notable landslide events in history by answering questions about the cast and key facts.

1 What role did Dinah Sheridan play in the movie Landslide?

2 What role did Luke Eberl play in the movie Landslide?

3 Baliem Valley landslide by 1976 Papua earthquake in ________, Indonesia on July 1976.

4 Who played Steven Decker in the movie Landslide?

5 What role did Melody Anderson play in the movie Landslide?

6 What role did Keith Oney play in the movie Landslide?

7 Who played Lucy Matterson in the movie Landslide?

8 Who played Jimmy in the movie Landslide?

9 Amherst and Nelson landslide by ________ in Virginia on August 1969.

10 Who played Mark Decker in the movie Landslide?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1979 Abbotsford landslip was the biggest landslide ever in an urban area in New Zealand.
  • the largest landslide ever recorded in Canada was 1965's Hope Slide.
  • the largest landslide triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, the Yasman valley flowslide, had a volume of 245 Mm3 and killed about 4,000 people.
  • the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least 47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru.
  • over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos-containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek, Washington each year.
  • Les Éboulements is located in the centre of the Charlevoix crater in Quebec, and was named after a large landslide that occurred in 1663.
  • Seacliff Lunatic Asylum (pictured) in New Zealand was plagued by landslips, a fatal fire in a locked psychiatric ward and allegations of abuse before reverting to a forest reserve.
  • Heart Mountain (pictured) in Wyoming, USA, was transported to its current location by the largest landslide ever discovered, approximately 50 million years ago.