| Ground Zero is a term that has many different | | | | died in that disaster, which took place on the same |
| meanings, but typically speaking in the global post 9 | | | | day another hijacked plane was flown into the |
| 11 environment, Ground Zero is a term that has been | | | | Pentagon, part of the larger combined terrorist effort |
| used to refer to the site on which the World Trade | | | | which had been implemented. A fourth plane was on |
| Center towers stood before the attacks on that | | | | its way to another target, potentially the White |
| day. Ground Zero was in years past typically a term | | | | House itself, but was brought down before it could |
| that was used to refer to the center of a blast | | | | complete its hijackers mission. |
| zone, most notably the epicenter of the bomb blasts | | | | The ground zero quiz questions for many years after |
| which leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World | | | | the attacks were concerned largely with the plans |
| War II when atomic bombs were dropped on both | | | | for this space the towers had once occupied. There |
| of those cities. It is likely this association with the | | | | was a large competition among architects and |
| devastation caused by those attacks which cause | | | | architecture firms to settle on the rebuilding that |
| the term now implied in any Ground Zero quiz to | | | | would take place on this plot of land. One of the first |
| become associated with the former site of the | | | | structures being completed is a memorial meant to |
| World Trade Center. | | | | honor those that were lost in the attacks. The |
| Ground Zero trivia must of course address the | | | | construction on this memorial should be completed |
| dreadful attacks which leveled the buildings which | | | | soon. Construction on the seven buildings which will |
| previously stood on this spot. On September 11th, | | | | replace the twin towers has begun, and some |
| 2001, there were two planes which after being | | | | estimates have the construction on Tower 1 (1 |
| hijacked were flown directly into the two towers of | | | | World Trade Center) as being completed as early as |
| the world trade center, both which completely | | | | 2013. |
| collapsed after the attacks. Close to 3000 people | | | | |