Chernobyl Part 2: The Liquidators
How much do you know about the heroes of Chernobyl?
About the Chernobyl Liquidators Quiz
The Chernobyl liquidators were the 600,000 soldiers, miners, scientists, and workers sent into the Exclusion Zone to contain the disaster. They worked in shifts measured in minutes to limit their radiation exposure, building the famous concrete sarcophagus, cleaning rooftops by hand, and draining the flooded basement to prevent a second explosion that could have made half of Europe uninhabitable. This quiz honors their story.
This Chernobyl trivia quiz focuses specifically on the human effort behind the cleanup — the bio-robots, the helicopter pilots, the coal miners who tunneled beneath the reactor. How much do you know about the men and women who contained the world's worst nuclear disaster at enormous personal cost? Test your knowledge of one of history's most extraordinary collective efforts.