Nightclub fire kills scores of young people in Brazil

Q: A fire ignited by a flare from a live band’s fireworks swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students in southern Brazil, leaving at least 232 people dead, police said. Where is Brazil on this map?

Circle the area on this map


Q: President Dilma Rousseff cut short a visit to Chile and rushed back to Brazil. She said everything possible would be done to help the injured and the families of the victims. Chile is on Brazil's . . .

A. Northern border

B. Western border

C. Southern border

D. None of the above

Q: The fire at the Kiss club in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil, started when stage fireworks ignited acoustic insulation on the ceiling. It was eerily similar to a 2003 fire that killed 100 people in the smallest U.S. state . . .

A. Delaware

B. District of Columbia

C. Rhode Island

D. Wyoming

Q: Fireworks also were blamed in a 2004 nightclub fire that killed 195 people in Buenos Aires, the capital of South America's second largest nation . . .

A. Argentina

B. Brazil

C. Colombia

D. Peru

Q: Many of the exit doors to Agentina's Cromanon nightclub were chained shut like the bolted exit doors in the Cocoanut Grove fire, the worst nightclub fire in U.S. history. That 1942 fire killed 492 people in New England's largest city . . .

A. New York City

B. Boston

C. Philadelphia

D. Providence


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