Statistics for Things that Go Boom!

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The beginning of our universe approximately 13.8 billion years ago	The Big Bang	98%
City that suffered the first nuclear bomb attack in 1945	Hiroshima	89%
Invention of Alfred Nobel	Dynamite	80%
Term for a gasoline bomb in a bottle	{Molotov} cocktail	80%
The explosion of a large star	Supernova	79%
Active ingredient in the above	{Nitro}glycerin	74%
Explosive invented in China in the 9th century	Gunpowder	72%
Notable examples include Pinatubo, Etna, and Eyjafjallajökull	Volcano	71%
Name of the bomb itself	{Little} Boy	65%
The short name of the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene	TNT	62%
Middle East city which had a massive ammonia nitrate explosion in 2020	Beirut	60%
Plastic explosive, invented in 1958, known by a letter and a number	C-4	58%
Place where the U.S. tested nuclear weapons from 1946–1958	{Bikini} Atoll	57%
Name of the plane which dropped the bomb	{Enola} Gay	54%
Mexican peninsula where an asteroid or comet struck 66 million years ago, a bad day for dinosaurs	Yucatan	54%
Director of "Transformers" and "Armageddon", known for including lots of explosions in his movies	Michael Bay	49%
The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana triggered a war between the United States and this country	Spain	48%
The largest nuclear bomb ever tested, more than 3000 times more powerful than the above	{Tsar} Bomba	44%
This type of gun may save your life. But it also started the concert fire memorialized in the song "Smoke on the Water".	{Flare} gun	40%
Bizarrely, Sweden has recently had an epidemic of bombings using this military weapon	Grenade	32%