Tuesday 14 December 2010

The Last Resort?

Chernobyl is to become available as a tourist destination from next year, the Ukrainian authorities have just announced. Until now, only unofficial tours to the site of the world's greatest civilian nuclear disaster have been available.  According to Ukraine's government however, these are not only illegal but come at some level of risk, as officials point out that the safety of tourists on these trips, organisaed by private firms, cannot be guaranteed. The official tours will take visitors into the thirty mile exclusion zone established after the catastrophic 1986 explosion of reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant. Visitors will be able to look around ghost towns evacuated by the 350,000 people who fled the resulting radioactive contamination and perhaps ponder why, unlike themselves, the locals haven't ventured back. In a bemused frame of mind the Highly Questionable? team have opted to take a nuclear theme for today's quiz.       
Nuclear Quiz
1 What was the title of the 1979 US film in which Jane Fonda portrayed a journalist with concerns about the safety of an American nuclear power plant?    
2 What was the name of the real life American nuclear power station which experienced a serious accident less than a fortnight after the release of the film featuring Jane Fonda featured in question 1?
3 Which fictional character is a Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?
4 Which fictional character owns the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?
5 What is the chemical symbol for uranium?
Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz questions.
Traditional Games Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's quiz which had traditional games as its theme were:-
1 64.
2 Japan.
3 Backgammon.
4 Parchisi.
5 China.

No comments:

Post a Comment