# ☢️ Chernobyl Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What year did the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occur?  
**Answer:** 1986  
**Taglines:**  
- The '80s: big hair, big reactors, big oops  
- 1986: when glowing wasn’t a compliment  
- Stranger Things but without the fun  
- The meltdown that wasn’t just metaphorical  
- Nukes before it was trendy (sorry, Fallout fans)

### 2. In which modern-day country is Chernobyl located?  
**Answer:** Ukraine  
**Taglines:**  
- Not Russia—keep up, comrades  
- Ukraine: more than just a geopolitical stress ball  
- Tourism tip: bring a Geiger counter  
- Kiev fried, not Kentucky fried  
- Now serving irradiated real estate

### 3. What was the name of the reactor that exploded in Chernobyl?  
**Answer:** Reactor 4  
**Taglines:**  
- Four’s a party, until it isn’t  
- Three behaved, Four misbehaved  
- The Fab Four’s evil twin  
- It went boom before it was cool  
- One less than Five, infinitely more problematic

### 4. What HBO miniseries dramatized the Chernobyl disaster?  
**Answer:** *Chernobyl*  
**Taglines:**  
- Title creativity: 10/10  
- Spoiler: The core explodes  
- Watch people sweat and lie for five episodes  
- Emmy-winning existential dread  
- “What is the cost of lies?” Apparently 5 hours

### 5. What long-term area was created due to radioactive contamination?  
**Answer:** The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone  
**Taglines:**  
- No trespassing—unless you’re a mutant dog  
- Airbnb rating: 0 stars, glowing reviews  
- Radioactive chic  
- Where time stands still—and so do Geiger counters  
- The only neighborhood with more wolves than people

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Chernobyl disaster happened on April ______, 1986.  
**Answer:** 26  
**Taglines:**  
- Springtime for radiation  
- April 26: mark your fallout calendars  
- Easter was ruined that year  
- That’s no April Fool’s joke  
- Daylight savings, but make it nuclear

### 2. The type of reactor used at Chernobyl was the ______-type.  
**Answer:** RBMK  
**Taglines:**  
- RBMK: Really Bad Meltdown Kinetics  
- Not your average IKEA acronym  
- Built Soviet tough—and dumb  
- RBMK: the Ford Pinto of reactors  
- Reactor By Mostly Khaos

### 3. The first firemen to arrive at Chernobyl died from ______ poisoning.  
**Answer:** Radiation  
**Taglines:**  
- Not a glow-up  
- They didn’t stand a *chance*  
- The worst sunburn in history  
- Heroic and horrifically under-informed  
- “Protective gear optional”—USSR edition

### 4. The nearby city evacuated after the disaster was ______.  
**Answer:** Pripyat  
**Taglines:**  
- Home of abandoned Ferris wheels and doom  
- Now with 100% less population  
- Ghost town aesthetic  
- Pripyat: from dream to dystopia  
- Come for the funfair, stay because you mutated

### 5. The Soviet Union initially blamed the explosion on ______ error.  
**Answer:** Operator  
**Taglines:**  
- Blame the guy pushing buttons  
- USSR’s favorite scapegoat: humans  
- When in doubt, find a patsy  
- Better PR than “we built junk”  
- Operator error: also known as Tuesday

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What type of energy was being generated at Chernobyl?  
A) Solar  
B) Wind  
C) Nuclear ✅  
D) Geothermal  
**Taglines:**  
- The hottest energy source—literally  
- Wind farms don’t explode, pal  
- Solar panels rarely melt faces  
- Chernobyl: not your eco retreat  
- Glow big or go home  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] How long did the Chernobyl fire burn after the explosion?  
A) A few hours  
B) A few days ✅  
C) A week  
D) A month  
**Taglines:**  
- Fire festival, Soviet edition  
- Days of fire, decades of fallout  
- Can’t stop, won’t stop burning  
- Marshmallows not recommended  
- When your emergency lasts longer than your government

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What infamous graphite component contributed to the disaster?  
A) Core stabilizer  
B) Graphite control rods ✅  
C) Cooling fins  
D) Reactor shell  
**Taglines:**  
- The rods of doom  
- Graphite: now with explosive side effects  
- Hot rods, nuclear edition  
- Control rods that lost control  
- Brought to you by Team Bad Engineering

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Who was the Soviet nuclear physicist that led the cleanup and investigation?  
A) Valery Legasov ✅  
B) Anatoly Dyatlov  
C) Mikhail Gorbachev  
D) Leonid Brezhnev  
**Taglines:**  
- Legasov: smart guy, tragic ending  
- “I’m not a hero”—too bad, you are  
- He spoke truth… and then inhaled it  
- Valery: one part scientist, one part conscience  
- More spine than the USSR had in total

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What is the nickname given to the radioactive mass under Reactor 4?  
A) Elephant’s Foot ✅  
B) Tiger’s Claw  
C) Bear’s Jaw  
D) Dragon’s Flame  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s not a dessert  
- The most dangerous footlong in history  
- Elephant’s Foot: no zoo pass needed  
- Melt your face off in 5 seconds or less  
- Caution: not microwave safe
