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Hurricane Katrina Video
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1. What was the name of the simulated hurricane that crippled local and state government?
2. What company has an emergency response team for natural disasters?
3. What river winds through the city of New Orleans?
4. Who was the mayor of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina?
5. How many citizens of New Orleans do not have the means to evacuate the city?
6. What levee protects the west side of the city?
7. When did Katrina become a category 4 hurricane?
8. Where were residents taken to ride out the storm?
9. When did Katrina make landfall?
10. What Parish started to flood south of the Intracoastal Waterway?
11. Brent Warr was the mayor of what Mississippi town?
12. What caused the water to be pushed south from Lake Pontchatrain?
13. John Burnette is a reporter for what radio network?
14. How much of New Orleans was under water?
15. What downtown hotel was mayor Nagin managing the disaster?
16. What stadium were refugees going to be bussed to?
17. How many people actually died at the Superdome?
18. How many people died at the New Orleans Convention Center?
19. How many days did it take to evacuate the Superdome?
20. What Alabama town did President Bush tour for the first on-scene tour?