CQD

Stephanie Dalquist, Ray Speth, Sam Kendig

CLUES IN PUZZLE: SOLUTION:

  1. Watch animation, hear intro "text"
  2. Get intro text - Morse code is "Nobody has heard the Titanic for about 2 hours," a message sent from La Provence to the Celtic, 2:28 am, April 15, 1912. Key here is *HOURS*
  3. Recognize disasters (some human, some natural, some engineering)
  4. Find time of disasters (these all had DISTINCT moments in which they happened)
  5. A-X = 1-24
  6. Get "EBWHITELOUISSPECIES"
  7. Be smart! Get answer. Direct Google hits (EB White, Louis, Species) are crap, but answer is gettable.
DETAILED SOLUTIONS:

Events

(A ".." indicates that the minute could not be found, but that the event definitely occurred within the hour)

05:46Kobe, Japan earthquake
02:30Texas A&M bonfire collapse
23:40Titanic Struck iceberg
08:32Mount Saint Helens
09:00Columbia lost
20:31TWA 800 July 17 1996
05:05Andrew hits land at Homestead, FL
12:31Kennedy shot
15:20NY ferry crash
21:30Lake Nyos, Cameroon CO2 Lake
09:38Plane hits Pentagon
19:..Hyatt walkway collapse, 1981, Kansas City
19:02Lockerbie, Scotland air disaster
16:40Challenger disaster
05:..1906 San Francisco earthquake
03:01Izmit earthquake, 1999
09:03Second plane hits world trade center
05:..USS Jacob Jones torpedoed by U-53
19:25Hindenburg!

Hours

5,2,23,8,9,20,5,12,15,21,9,19,19,16,5,3,9,5,19

Spells:

EBWHITELOUISSPECIES

E.B. White is the Author of "Trumpet of the Swan," about a young trumperter Swan named Louis. Trumpeter Swans are, in taxonomy, Cygnus (genus) buccinator (species).

Answer: BUCCINATOR