Famous Outages by thorsleyd

Champion(s):

JudyD
If the right one don't get you, the left one will.


Runner(s)-Up:

HomerS
I am Groot.


Quiz Description

While there's an outage, enjoy this quiz about outages.

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Questions:

On February 28, 2017, an outage on what COMPUTING PLATFORM led to numerous web services, including Slack and Medium, being shut down because an employee accidentally removed servers supporting S3 subsystems?

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AMAZON WEB SERVICES

What COMPANY received the blame for the 2003 Northeast power failure due a cascade of failures that started when its Eastlake, Ohio, power plant shut down? This company is also associated with another notorious failure, as it is the namesake of the Cleveland Browns’ stadium.

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FIRSTENERGY

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. 80 million people in what TWO SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES lost power in November 2009 when transmission lines from Itaipu Dam failed?

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BRAZIL, PARAGUAY

What soon-to-be-recalled GOVERNOR declared a state of emergency on January 17, 2001 due to a shortage of electricity due to market manipulation?

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Joseph Graham “Gray” DAVIS Jr.

Duane Kuiper has the fewest home runs in MLB history for a player with over 2,500 at-bats. Kuiper currently calls games together with Mike Krukow, for what NL WEST FRANCHISE?

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San Francisco GIANTS

A May 2000 power outage in southern Portugal was attributed to the electrocution of WHAT BIRD, a carnivore with taxonomic name Ciconia ciconia that shares a clade with herons, pelicans, and cormorants?

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White STORK

Outages in Minnesota and Quebec in July 1999 and in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in June 2012 were caused by what WEATHER EVENT, a wind storm who name comes from the Spanish for “straight”?

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DERECHO

The two largest power outages in history, in terms of number of customers affected, occurred in January 2001 and July 2012 in the northern regions of WHAT COUNTRY?

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INDIA

The 1968 comedy Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?, set during the 1965 New York City blackout, starred what ACTRESS AND SINGER in her second-to-last film role, only eight years after her Oscar nomination for Pillow Talk?

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Doris DAY

In compensation for the outage on THIS NETWORK in May 2011, users in North America were offered a choice of two freegames from Wipeout HD/Fury, LIttleBigPlanet, InFamous, Dead Nation, and Super Stardust HD.

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PLAYSTATION Network

After Hurricane Maria, a two-employee company called Whitefish Energy Services suspiciously received a $300 million contract to restore electricity to Puerto Rico. Coincidentally, Whitefish, Montana is the hometown of what SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR?

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Ryan ZINKE

What RHYMING NAME was given to the animal being hoisted by eight orange birds that appeared during Twitter outages until 2013?

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FAIL WHALE