Statistics for Deadliest Disasters in Australian History

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Date	Type	Death Toll	Answer	% Correct
1918-20	Pandemic	12,000	1918 flu pandemic	100%
2020-2023	Pandemic	19,250	COVID-19	100%
1789	Epidemic	750+	Smallpox	44%
1946-55	Epidemic	1,000	Polio	39%
1900-25	Epidemic	535	Bubonic plague	28%
1942	Air Raids	243	First Darwin Bombings	28%
1938-39	Heat Wave	438	1938-1939 heatwave	22%
1944	Prison Break	235	Cowra breakout	22%
2009	Heatwave	374	2009 heatwave	17%
1867	Epidemic	748	Measles	17%
1891-1910	Epidemic	2,000	Typhoid	11%
1895-96	Heat Wave	437	1895-1896 heatwave	6%
1907-08	Heat Wave	246	1907-1908 heatwave	6%
1899	Cyclone	410	Cyclone Mahina	6%
1875-76	Epidemic	8,000	Scarlet fever	6%
1845	Shipwreck	406	Sinking of the Cataraqui	6%
1712	Shipwreck	286	Sinking of the Zuytdorp	6%
1951	Volcanic eruption	3,000	Eruption of Mount Lamington	0%
1840-50	Massacre	300+	Gippsland massacres	0%
1943	Shipwreck	268	Sinking of AHS Centaur	0%