Do You Have What It Takes To Succeed On This Quiz About Some Of History's Greatest Failures?

From the Titanic to the Hindenburg to Kevin Costner's accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, find out here how much you know about some of history's most monumental failures!

Calvin Straw
Created by Calvin Straw
On Aug 14, 2017
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What was the name of the captain who crashed the Titanic into an iceberg?

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What type of aircraft cost the U.S. Air Force $1.4 billion when it crashed during its first takeoff in 2008?

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What was the name of the Ford car introduced in 1957 that flopped so hard it cost the company $250 million.

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How many people were killed in the 1978 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island?

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How many tons of oil were released into the ocean in the 2002 sinking of the oil tanker Prestige?

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What was the name of the captain who crashed the Exxon-Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound?

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In what year did the Challenger space shuttle explode during takeoff?

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In what year did the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown occur?

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What was the name of the Hindenburg's captain?

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What famous charge lost the Battle of Gettysburg for the Confederacy?

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In what year did the Apollo 13 spacecraft miraculously return to Earth after a failed mission?

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How many miles was American Explorer Robert E. Peary from the North Pole actually when he thought that he had finally reached it in 1909?

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How old was George Mallory when he attempted (and died trying) to climb Mt. Everest?

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Finally, what was the name of Kevin Costner's dialogue coach for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?

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