# 🎈 The Hindenburg Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What type of aircraft was the Hindenburg?  
**Answer:** Zeppelin (airship)  
**Taglines:**  
- Float like a whale, burst like a balloon  
- Zeppelin: like a blimp, but with more drama  
- Lighter-than-air, heavier-than-regret  
- German engineering meets flaming tragedy  
- High hopes, low melting point  

### 2. What year did the Hindenburg disaster occur?  
**Answer:** 1937  
**Taglines:**  
- The year fire got a PR team  
- 1937: when flight met fright  
- Pre-WWII, post-disaster  
- Flames before fame  
- Literally went down in history  

### 3. What gas was used to fill the Hindenburg?  
**Answer:** Hydrogen  
**Taglines:**  
- The flammable choice—great job, guys  
- Explosive decisions, historical consequences  
- Safe? Nah. Cheap? Yup.  
- Float now, burn later  
- Science says “don’t,” Germany said “hold my beer”  

### 4. What famous phrase was uttered during the disaster?  
**Answer:** “Oh, the humanity!”  
**Taglines:**  
- The original disaster meme  
- Drama, delivered live  
- The birth of catastrophic commentary  
- Journalism meets meltdown  
- Still better than your group chat  

### 5. What was the name of the radio reporter who covered the crash live?  
**Answer:** Herbert Morrison  
**Taglines:**  
- His voice cracked, and so did hearts  
- The man who gave tragedy a soundtrack  
- Journalism on fire (literally)  
- Morrison: broadcasting from the belly of doom  
- Not a vibe, but a vocal icon  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Hindenburg was attempting to land in ______, New Jersey when it caught fire.  
**Answer:** Lakehurst  
**Taglines:**  
- The town that got too lit  
- New Jersey: always dramatic  
- Lakehurst: now with flaming airships  
- Most famous landing gone wrong  
- East Coast inferno  

### 2. The Hindenburg was a product of ______ engineering.  
**Answer:** German  
**Taglines:**  
- Built with precision, burned with passion  
- Das blimp  
- Ja to floating, nein to safety  
- Zeppelin über everything—except flames  
- Luftschiff? More like Luftcrispy  

### 3. The Hindenburg was intended to be filled with non-flammable ______, but was not.  
**Answer:** Helium  
**Taglines:**  
- Helium: the safe gas that got ghosted  
- U.S. said no helium, Germany said YOLO  
- Float safer, party harder  
- If only they’d used balloon gas  
- What could’ve been... boring  

### 4. Approximately ______ people died in the Hindenburg disaster.  
**Answer:** 36  
**Taglines:**  
- Fewer than you thought, still tragic  
- Not Titanic numbers, but enough  
- Survivors = plot twist  
- Flame math  
- Thirty-six reasons to rethink airships  

### 5. The Hindenburg’s final flight originated from ______.  
**Answer:** Frankfurt, Germany  
**Taglines:**  
- Frankfurt to fiery finish  
- Wurst place to start  
- Flammable flight path  
- From brats to blaze  
- Germany to Jersey in 1930s style  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What company manufactured the Hindenburg?  
A) Airbus  
B) Zeppelin Company ✅  
C) Boeing  
D) Luftwaffe  
**Taglines:**  
- Zeppelin: because “airplane” wasn’t chaotic enough  
- Blimps R Us  
- Floating factory of doom  
- Zeppelin: the brand that burned bridges  
- Name it after yourself, regret it forever  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What was the Hindenburg’s full designation?  
A) LZ 129 ✅  
B) HN 101  
C) ZL 300  
D) HX 212  
**Taglines:**  
- Sounds clinical, ends catastrophically  
- LZ = Let's Zoom (into flames)  
- Alphanumeric for anxiety  
- LZ 129: not a model, a memorial  
- Code name: crispy  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] How long was the Hindenburg in service before the disaster?  
A) 6 years  
B) 2 years  
C) Less than 1 year ✅  
D) 3 years  
**Taglines:**  
- Shorter career than a TikTok trend  
- Flew high, burned fast  
- Talk about a trial period  
- Warranty not included  
- A literal crash course  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Which of the following was a common luxury aboard the Hindenburg?  
A) Hot tubs  
B) Grand piano ✅  
C) Movie theater  
D) Ballroom  
**Taglines:**  
- Lounge in luxury while hovering in terror  
- Play “Chopsticks” at 1,000 feet  
- Musical chairs meets floating anxiety  
- The flying Ritz with a flame clause  
- Titanic piano energy  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] After the Hindenburg, what gas became standard for airships?  
A) Hydrogen  
B) Methane  
C) Helium ✅  
D) Nitrogen  
**Taglines:**  
- Helium: finally getting its chance  
- Learn from fire, float with fun  
- Less boom, more bounce  
- Safer skies, squeakier voices  
- One small step for safety
