Zombie Apocalypse Survival Quiz

So you watch "Doomsday Preppers" and "The Walking Dead" and are interested in the Prepper culture? Take this quiz and see how much you really know about being a new survivalist.

1) What does SHTF stand for?

2) What does TEOTWAWKI stand for?

3) What major country in the Western Hemisphere suffered an economic collapse in 2001?

4) What religious denomination is a big leader in the area of prepping and food storage?

5) How much water should you store for each person, each day, for a zombie apocalypse?

6) What does CME stand for?

7) What is an EMP?

8) Is more nuclear fallout created bt an air burst or a ground burst detonation?

9) How many separate power grids are there in the Unites States?

10) Stores in major cities have enough food for how many days if they are not resupplied?

ANSWERS:

1) SHTF stands for "Sh-t Hits The Fan." This refers to anything from a big natural disaster to a terror attack to a total societal collapse that results in a "Mad Max" scenario.

2) TEOTWAWKI stands for "The End Of The World As We Know It."

3) Argentina, which had a vibrant economy and a very strong and well off middle class until the collapse.

4) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also know as the Mormon Church.

5) A minimum of one gallon per person per day is needed for drinking and cooking.

6) CME stands for Coronal Mass Ejection. This is an electro-magnetic storm on the sun which impacts the Earth's magnetic field. A large enough CME could destroy our power grid.

7) EMP stands for Electro-Magnetic Pulse. This is the effect of a nuclear bomb that is detonated high in the atmosphere, where the magnetic radiation of the explosion "rides the waves" of the Earth's magnetic field and then destroys the power grid.

8) Since nuclear fallout is the charged particles of dirt and debris from the explosion, there is no fallout associated with an air burst nuclear explosion.

9) There are actually three main power grids: Eastern US, Western US and Texas.

10) If there is no panic buying and no "run on the stores," the grocery stores have about three days' worth of food at any one time.

Did you know that the most vulnerable you will ever be to a Zombie Apocalypse is when you are away from home, in your car? If something major happens and you can't get home right away, whatever you have in the trunk of your car is what you will need to get by with...