TNT equivalent | Date | Record | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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22,000 tons | 9th August, 1945 | Largest explosion ever used in armed combat | The nuclear bomb used at Nagasaki | Fat Man | 77%
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57 megatons | October 30, 1961 | The largest manmade explosion/largest nuclear explosion | Despite humans detonating over 2,000 nuclear weapons through history, the yield of this Soviet nuke accounts for 10% of the yield for all nuclear weapons combined | Tsar-Bomba | 77%
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11 tons | 2003 | Largest non-nuclear weapon test | American weapon, claims to be the largest conventional explosive | MOAB | 45%
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44 tons | 2007 | Largest non-nuclear weapon test | Russian bomb, claims to be 4 times more powerful than the American one, but authenticity is questioned | FOAB | 35%
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15 megatons | June 30, 1908 | Largest impact event known to man | A massive explosion occurring in Siberia, strongly believed to be a meteor impact event | Tunguska Event | 35%
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3,000 tons | 6 December 1917 | Possible largest accidental explosion | A Norwegian steamship collided with a French cargo ship carrying TNT in a Canadian harbour-town | Halifax Explosion | 29%
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800 megatons | April 5, 1815 | Largest recorded explosion ever experienced by humans/Largest volcanic eruption on record | This volcano on the island of Sumbawa erupted causing global climate change and harvest failure | Mount Tambora | 29%
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96 teratons | 65,000,000 B.C. | Largest explosion known to have taken place on Earth | An impact event at the end of the Cretaceous Period that caused the death of 60% of life on Earth, including the total extinction of these large reptiles | Dinosaurs | 16%
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2Ã-1038 tons | 11,000,000,000 B.C. | Largest explosion ever recorded | A gamma-ray burst observed in 2008, the equivalent of 100 Billion times the yield of all man-made nukes exploding every second for 100 Billion years, condensed to 23 minutes | GRB 080916C | 3%
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2.5Ã-1035 tons | 230,000,000 B.C. | Largest recorded supernova | A supernova observed in 2006 | SN2006gy | 3%
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6,000 tons | 4th October, 1918 | Possible largest accidental explosion | A devastating explosion at an explosives facility in Sayreville, New Jersey | T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion | 0%
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