Test your knowledge of hurricanes with this quiz devised by Jay Barnes, hurricane historian. Each month during hurricane season, we will randomly draw a name from all entrants. Each winner will receive a free copy of one of Jay Barnes's books: North Carolina's Hurricane History Third Edition or Florida's Hurricane History—your choice! Winners will be notified by email.


1. This state ranks first in the number of hurricane landfalls in the U.S.:
Texas
North Carolina
Florida
Louisiana


2. At more than 27 feet, the peak storm surge from thisÊhurricane is perhaps the highest ever observed in the U.S.
Charley 2004
Katrina 2005
Camille 1969
Andrew 1992


3. The storm surge associated with Hazel was the highest ever recorded in North Carolina. At Long Beach (Oak Island), the ocean level rose:
14 feet
15 feet
17 feet
23 feet


4. The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season shatered all records for the most named storms and the most hurricanes. Twenty-seven tropical storms formed, breaking the old record of twenty-one, set back in:
1969
1900
1933
1995


5. The Atlantic hurricane season reaches its peak at about this time of the year:
The second week of September
The first week of October
The last week of August
The second week of August


6. Though this hurricane never struck the United States, it reached category five strength and killed thousands in Nicaragua and Honduras in 1998, making it the deadliest hurricane of the twentieth century in the Western Hemisphere:
Bonnie
Felix
Mitch
Allen


7. In 2002, the National Hurricane Center reevaluated this hurricane and determined it was actually a category five at landfall:
Opal, 1995
Andrew, 1992
Betsy, 1965
Miami Hurricane of 1926


8. Hurricane Floyd was a $6 billion diaster in North Carolina. It was also called the "worst disaster ever" in what other state:
South Carolina
Delaware
New Jersey
New York


9. The record number of named storms in 2005 exhausted the list of 21 storm names for the year. Thus, the National Hurricane Center used this name for the 22nd storm of the year:
Alpha
Adam
Allison
Able


10. This hurricane delivered wind gusts over 150 to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Andrew 1992
Betsy 1965
Charley 2004
Donna 1960


11. Category five hurricanes do not stike the U.S. often. Since weather records began in the late nineteenth century, category five storms are known to have struck our shores:
Six times
Three times
Two times
Never


12. With over 1,800 deaths, this hurricane is the deadliest in Florida's history.
Tampa Hurricane of 1921
Miami Hurricane of 1926
Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928
Labor Day Hurricane of 1935


13. In the U.S., the leading cause of hurricane fatalities over the last fifty years is:
Electrocution
Drowning in storm tides
Trauma from wind-tossed debris
Drowning in inland flooding


14. Scientists agree that the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season is a direct result of global warming.
True
False


15. Hazel (1954) was followed by three hurricane landfalls in NC in 1955:
Connie, Donna and Felix
Barbara, Connie, and Donna
Barbara, Carol, and Diane
Connie, Diane, and Ione




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