Extreme Weather
This trivia game will hit your crowd like a bolt of lightning and rock them like a hurricane! Fifteen fun questions on the science of extreme weather!
15 questions · Published December 22, 2020
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Atlantic hurricanes are named after a series of male and female names. If all are used in the same calendar year, later storms are named after ____________.
Male and female hurricane names are used on a six-year rotation.
- Multiple Choice
2. According to the Beaufort scale, what wind speed must a storm reach to be considered a hurricane?
The scale was devised in 1805 by the Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort.
- Fill In The Blank
3. The south-central area of the U.S., which includes Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas, is nicknamed "Tornado _______."
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of the following is NOT a form of solid precipitation?
Freezing Rain is made entirely of liquid droplets. The raindrops become supercooled while passing through a sub-freezing layer of air hundreds of meters above the ground, and then freeze upon impact with any surface they encounter.
- Multiple Choice
5. In the summer of 2003, what continent was hit by a heat wave so devastating that it resulted in an estimated 70,000 deaths?
France was the hardest hit, reporting nearly 15,000 deaths. The prolonged heat actually turned grapes to raisins before they were picked from the vine!
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