Transportation Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Locomotives built for the Panama Canal were called <a>these</a>; they took jobs from hybrid animals that towed barges elsewhere
mules
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1922 Warren Harding said that this “gauges the speed of our present-day life. It long ago ran down simple living”
the automobile
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (Cheryl of the clue crew gives the clue from a raft in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador) Am in the Galapagos coming to the shore in a Zodiac raft; the Zodiac gained popularity when <a>this</a> French oceanographer used it to go where the Calypso couldn’t
(Jacques) Cousteau
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Precedent is a model of this small sporting vehicle that also moves people around retirement villages
a golf cart
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The typing one of these fast 19th century ships is seen <a>here</a>
a clipper
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In November of 2008 the CEOs of the big 3 automakers didn’t help their cause by getting to Washington on these
private jets
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Thoreau wrote, “Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for” this narrow boat
a canoe
$1200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an aerodynamics animation on the monitor.</a>) This item gets its name by ruining the flow of air along a surface; it reduces the lift of a car so that the tires stay on the ground at high speeds
a spoiler
$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the innovative 2-wheeled transporter “dedicated to moving you”
a Segway
$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This motorcycle co. whose factory 100 years ago was “The Wigwam” is once again in business after a bumpy history
Indian
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Developed in the 1830s, this cab named for its inventor put the driver on an elevated seat in the rear
a hansom
$3500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On the BBC’s “Cranford”, set in the 1840s, the title village freaks out because this is coming
a train (or railway)
$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The MD in MD-80 stands for this company that merged with Boeing in 1997
McDonnell Douglas
$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Ernst Henne was “the fastest man on two wheels”, hitting 173 mph in 1937 on a motorcycle from this company
BMW
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Michauxes added pedals to the front wheel of a velocipede & became the “fathers of” this vehicle
the bicycle
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One line of the Montreal Metro, this type of transportation, passes beneath the St. Lawrence River
a subway
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Pan-American Highway’s southernmost point is Puerto Montt, 560 miles south of Santiago in this country
Chile
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| First used in Japan in the 1870s, this 2-wheeled cart is pulled by a runner who may pull up to 30 miles a day
a rickshaw
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This light Russian sleigh, whose name means “a group of 3”, is pulled by 3 horses
a troika
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Roofed cars on a freight train, or a roll of 12 in a dice game
boxcars
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this vehicle used on grave occasions comes from the Old French for “long rake”
a hearse
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles
hot air balloons
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From 1985 to 2003, Milwaukee hosted a parade featuring dozens of these wagons from Baraboo
circus wagons
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| If you’re walking your baby back home in London, it won’t be in a stroller but in this 4-letter synonym
a pram
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1904 C.H. Lang of Chicago opened the first dealership devoted to this Milwaukee-based motorcycle co.
Harley-Davidson
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Baltimore clippers of the late 18th & early 19th centuries were first built at shipyards on this bay
Chesapeake Bay
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 7-letter term for a place to plunk down your whirlybird, as on the top of an office building
a helipad
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1956, using a lawn-mower engine & metal tubing, Art Ingels built the first one of these
a go-kart
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 296 feet long to climb 189 feet, the USA’s shortest & steepest of these still operates in Dubuque
a funicular
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The bestselling passenger car of all time is this company’s Corolla
Toyota
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these
a carriage
$1200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining “the knowledge”, mental maps needed to get a license
London
$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In “Sixteen Candles”, Molly Ringwald says, “I loathe” this method of transport
the bus
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets
mules
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this airline established in 1948 means “skyward”
El Al
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The FJ Cruiser is from Toyota; the PT Cruiser, from this automaker
Chrysler
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (<a>Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from behind a motorcycle.</a>) In 2001, this then-98-year-old company didn’t act its age when it introduced the new V-Rod street bike
Harley-Davidson
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “The relentless pursuit of perfection” is the goal of this luxury automaker
Lexus
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The first logo of this sporty Italian carmaker included the Visconti serpent, a Milanese symbol
Alfa Romeo
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this car line means “a descendant”
the Scion
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The HU-1A “Huey” was the main Medevac one of these in the Vietnam War
a helicopter
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Montgolfier brothers were papermakers by profession & used paper in their early ones of these
a balloon
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a device used to connect railroad cars; today’s automatic knuckle one was patented by Eli Janney in 1873
a coupler
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Introduced in Britain in 1948, this brand soon became the standard for rugged 4-wheel drive vehicles
the Land Rover
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1987 Greyhound Lines bought this Dallas-based competitor
Trailways
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Karl Probst designed an army recon vehicle in 2 days in 1940; we know it better as this
the Jeep
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| France II, at 419 feet the largest merchant sailing ship ever built, also had 2 of these to back up the sails
engines
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “Flight attendants prepare doors for departure and” do this means make sure your door & the one opposite yours are armed
cross-check
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1783 Benjamin Franklin saw the first piloted flight of this type of transport while in Paris
a hot air balloon
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| If you’re wearing silks, you’re on a horse; if you “hit the silk”, you’re strapped into one of these
a parachute
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this New York-Boston train combines “acceleration” & “excellence”
the Acela
$2400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 3 broad classes of operational aviation are general, military, & this type of civil aviation
commercial
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In railroading, maglev is short for this
magnetic levitation
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| After turning the key, it’s the final action with which you start a Yamaha YZ426F 4-stroke motorcycle
kick
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad opened in 1836 powered by this, but soon became Canada’s first powered by steam
horses
$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The U.S. company Trek makes Lance Armstrong’s bikes from a composite of this often-compounded element
carbon
$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1980 you could haul brie in the Renault sold in the U.S. under this half-French name
Le Car
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The twin rotor type of this has 2 main rotors going in opposite directions, so it doesn’t need a tail rotor
a helicopter
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| There are no knife or spoon varieties of these vehicles used in warehouses to raise & carry merchandise
forklifts
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The U.S. U-2, first built in the 1950s, was an airplane; the German U-1, first built in the 1910s, was one of these
a submarine
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1994 the trip across this body of water was cut from a little more than an hour to about 35 minutes
the English Channel
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state
a battleship
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These transports, first sent up in 1981, lift off like a rocket & land like a plane
space shuttles
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These have largely replaced dogsleds as the Eskimos’ main mode of winter transportation
snowmobiles
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Edward Lear’s poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat” head to sea in this colorful transport
a pea-green boat
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These trains were introduced in October 1964 to celebrate the first Olympic Games held in Asia
bullet trains
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Suspended from an overhead wire, it transports passengers up steep hills or across valleys
cable car
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In trucking a triple-sized one of these, pulled by a tractor, can be as long as a 10-story building
trailer
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (Sophia of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Goodyear blimp facility) 2 major types of airships are non-rigid, or blimps, & rigid, also called by this name of a German count
Zeppelin
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 1940s Robert Edison Fulton Jr. designed the Airphibian, a car that was also one of these
plane
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Offered since 1959, it gives you travel for a fixed time period on train systems in 17 European countries
Eurailpass
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Scheduled to set sail in 2004, its logo is seen here (QM2)
Queen Mary 2
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On December 11, 1967 it was removed from the British registry & turned over to the city of Long Beach, California
the Queen Mary
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| To shield them from impact, the flight recorders nicknamed these are installed in the back of the plane
black boxes
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the equipment Tony Hawk uses doing tricks like the Popshuvit Nosegrind
skateboard
$1200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| According to a classic 1892 song, it’s what I couldn’t afford that caused me to get a bicycle built for 2
carriage
$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Going into production in 2003, this German automaker’s SLR will feature gullwing doors
Mercedes-Benz
$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew) It’s the “monetary” name for this turn-of -the-century wheel transport
penny-farthing
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1936 the man who beat Joe Louis returned home on the famous craft named this
the Hindenburg
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Reptoid, seen here, is this type of vehicle; the fangs might be a clue
monster truck
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| As a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during WWI Ernest Hemingway drove one of these vehicles
ambulance
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Most commercial freight on the Mississippi travels in barges pushed by this type of boat
tugboat
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This space shuttle that made its maiden voyage in 1992 was built to replace Challenger
Endeavour
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The railroad known by this hyphenated name runs over 5,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok
Trans-Siberian Railroad
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 3 bases for these in the U.S. are at Pompano Beach, Fla., Carson, Calif. & Suffield, Oh., just east of Akron
the Goodyear Blimps
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Opened in 2000, the world’s longest higway tunnel at 15.2 miles links Oslo and Bergen in this country
Norway
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1785 Congress began mail service using this horse-drawn carriage
stagecoach
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Eclipse and Galant are 2 of the cars driving up business for this Japanese automaker
Mitsubishi
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An SST can travel at over 1,300 mph; SS stands for this
supersonic
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of these in Wuppertal, Germany has been operating since 1901, the year Walt Disney was born
monorail
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Henry Ford once said you could buy a Model T in any color as long as it was this
Black
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In other news…a stowaway from Tahiti recently survived a death-defying airline flight to L.A. while hiding here
Wheel well
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An aircraft that can take off & touch down on water or land is called this, like a class of animals
Amphibious
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On May 10, 1869 it became the first continent to have a rail line running from its east coast to its west coast
North America
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the early 1990s the Ford Taurus overtook this model of Honda as No. 1 in U.S. auto sales
Accord
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This wheeled war vehicle was introduced to the Egyptians around 1600 B.C. by an invading people called the Hyksos
Chariot
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The SR.N4 MK III, one of the largest of these, crosses the English Channel on a cushion of air
Hovercraft
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1993 this former Denver mayor became the first Hispanic-American Secretary of Transportation
Federico Pena
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From a French phrase for “traveling hospital”, it’ll get you to the hospital quickly in an emergency
Ambulance
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Type of airplane seen here; it gets its name from its double-wing structure
Biplane
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “Feline” name for the type of boat seen here
Catamaran
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The tail rotor counters torque on this type of aircraft developed in the 1930s
Helicopter
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Seen here, it’s something you have to have “patients” to move around
Gurney
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This alliterative term for a car with low fuel efficiency became common in the 1970s
a gas guzzler
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Found on many sport utility vehicles, it’s a system where both axles provide propulsion
4-wheel drive (or all-wheel drive)
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Transport that helped the Finns in the 1939-40 winter war & helped Finn Matti Nykaenen finnish with Olympic gold
skis
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This device increases a jet plane’s thrust by burning exhaust gases
afterburners
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the high-speed train that runs between NYC & Washington, D.C.
the Metroliner
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This travel organization responds to almost 30 million emergency road service calls a year
AAA
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Dedicated in 1962, the Thatcher Ferry Bridge spans the Pacific entrance to this canal
Panama Canal
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1995 this agency, the ICC, issued Santa a permit to operate “as a common carrier by 2-runner sleigh”
Interstate Commerce Commission
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Features on this luxury liner include the Grand Lounge & the Queens Grill, one of 5 gourmet restaurants
QE2
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1887 Canada’s Transcontinental Railroad reached from Montreal to this west coast city
Vancouver
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Sikorsky Skycrane, this type of aircraft, can lift 10 tons while hovering
helicopter
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This city’s subway system, made up of the IRT, BMT & IND, has 238 route miles & 469 stations
New York
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1996 this company began leasing electric-powered EV1s through its Saturn dealerships
General Motors
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The British SRN 4 type of this machine was designed to ferry people & cars across the English Channel
hovercraft
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This type of fishing boat drags a large conical net behind it
trawler
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Nonrigid airships, like the ones used for advertising, are more commonly called this
blimps
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Russia’s Lunokhod I was the first wheeled vehicle used here
the Moon
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1993 Barbara Harmer became the first woman to co-pilot this supersonic plane
the Concorde
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The “Baltimore” type of this sailing ship originated in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 1800s
a clipper ship
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This rugged vehicle may derive its name from the abbreviation for “general purpose”
Jeep
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Accommodating 3,000 passengers, this “Festive” company’s new cruise ship Destiny is the world’s largest
Carnival Cruise Lines
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Natural Gasser II, this type of car, can travel a quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds on natural gas fuel
Dragster
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In August 1995 this company introduced the Outback, a hybrid station wagon & sport utility vehicle
Subaru
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This military vehicle got its name from a British codeword when “Landship” never caught on
Tank
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Arab ships called dhows are lateen rigged, meaning their sails are roughly this shape
Triangular
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| French authorities may build another airport for this city already served by Orly & De Gaulle
Paris
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The icebreaker “Nathaniel B. Palmer” has carried scientists to study the Ross Sea off this continent
Antarctica
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A new research submarine, Deep Flight I, includes these airplane features turned upside down
Wings
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Before the 1960s these vehicles that carry the injured were rarely stocked with medical equipment
Ambulances
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Fleetwood Enterprises makes these vehicles under the names Jamboree, Pace Arrow & Tioga
Motor Homes/RV’s
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a luxurious chaffeur-driven auto, whether regular or “stretch”
Limousine
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Built in 1802, the Charlotte Dundas was the first of these small harbor ships used to maneuver larger ships
a tugboat
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of America’s busiest airports, its 3-letter designation is ORD
O’Hare Airport (Chicago)
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This 2-wheeled, 2-passenger 19th century London cab had an elevated driver’s seat in the rear
Hansom cab
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Bridgeport, Conn.’s airport is named for this helicopter pioneer whose aircraft plant was in the city
Igor Sikorsky
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This state leads the U.S. in number of registered automobiles with over 17 million
California
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Air in this tunnel between NYC & Jersey City comes from giant fans in 4 10-story towers
the Holland Tunnel
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This state capital has a Wiley Post Airport as well as a Will Rogers Airport
Oklahoma City
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This series of canals allows transportations and commerce between Lakes Superior & Huron
the Sault Ste. Marie Canals
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This city’s Logan International Airport is about 180 miles closer to Europe than New York City is
Boston
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Around 1914 the Gulf Oil Company became the first to give away these free guides to travelers
Road maps
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Construction & maintenance costs of this New York waterway were defrayed by tolls until 1882
Erie Canal
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the south Pacific an outrigger type of this craft has a framework for stability
Canoe
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Japan this high-speed train shuttles passengers between cities at over 150 miles per hour
Bullet train
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This trade union includes chauffeurs, warehousemen & helpers
Teamsters
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The elevated tracks of the “People Mover” move people around this American “Motor City”
Detroit
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Kanmon Tunnel, the world’s first under an ocean, connects the island of Kyushu with this island
Honshu
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An “underground city” connects the subway with downtown offices & shopping in this largest Quebec city
Montreal
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a chair carried on poles by porters, or a car with 4 doors
sedan
$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This consortium of European aircraft makers is headquartered near Toulouse, France
Airbus
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1910 the “Deutschland” inaugurated commercial passenger service in one of these
Zeppelin/dirigible
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| According to census data, the average time for this trip in metropolitan areas is 23.2 minutes
Trip to work/commute
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The basket beneath a balloon is called this, like a Venetian boat
Gondola
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Term for a bus, elevator or NYC subway train that makes few stops
Express
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 19th century Gustavus Swift developed this type of railway car to preserve his packed meat
Refrigerator Car
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Some surfing techniques were adapted to concrete by devotees of this device
skateboard
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This 2-wheeled east Asian cart is pulled by a runner called a shafu
Rickshaw
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A 1935 act of Congress gave this agency, the ICC, authority over motor carriers & drivers
Interstate Commerce Commission
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In terms of total passengers, this London airport is the world’s busiest outside the U.S.
Heathrow
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1840 this line sent its first ship, the Britannia, across the Atlantic
Cunard Line
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1954 this city opened Canada’s first subway
Toronto
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Metro Red Line, which began service in L.A. in 1993, is this form of transportation
Subway
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the auto company that makes the Maxima & the Altima
Nissan
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| France’s high-speed trains are known by this 3-letter abbreviation
TGV (Trains Grande Vitesse)
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It was the nickname of the Curtiss JN4, once used to carry air mail
“Jenny”
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| They were the 2 largest passenger ships afloat when they were retired in 1967 & 1968
Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From Port Said to Al-Qantara, this canal passes through Lake Manzala, a lagoon
the Suez Canal
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Operating since 1901, this country’s Schwebebahn is the oldest existing monorail
Germany
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the Boer War, this Indian nationalist leader organized an ambulance corps for the British army
Mahatma Gandhi
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the Olympics these vehicles race on oval tracks called velodromes
bicycles
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1956 this Finnish-American architect designed the Trans World Airlines terminal at JFK Airport
Eero Saarinen
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s sometimes called the tube or underground
the (London) subway
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The largest airport in this state is Logan International Airport in Biillings
Montana
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| About 80% of the motorcycles bought in the U.S. are produced by this country
Japan
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a system in which a vehicle runs along a single, elevated beam; Expo 67 had 3
a monorail
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This highway system extends from Alaska to the southern part of South America
the Pan-American HIghway
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In May 1995 this company delivered its first 777
Boeing
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1979 Israel sent its first cargo ship through this waterway
Suez Canal
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This runnerless sled was first used by North American Indians to haul supplies & game over the snow
Toboggan
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This type of aircraft is sometimes called a sailplane
Glider
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the name shared by an early warship propelled by oars & the kitchen of a boat or ship
Galley
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Not surprisingly, there are more motor vehicles registered in this state than any other
California
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this form of transportation comes from a Latin word meaning “for all”
Omnibus
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1910, it became the first type of aircraft to offer commercial passenger service
Dirigible
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Completed in 1916, this Russian railroad is the longest in the world
Trans-Siberian Railroad
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1994 this ill-fated Italian cruise ship sank off the coast of Somalia
Achille Lauro
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The wheels of these ancient Egyptian vehicles usually had 6 spokes
chariots
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Fire departments have 3 main types of truck: pumper, rescue & this kind
ladder
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Marked out in 1775, it was Kentucky’s first road
the Wilderness Road
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| New Mexico’s first railroad, it began operation in the state in 1878
the (Atchison, Topeka and) Santa Fe Railway
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Oregon, California & Mormon trails followed this east-west River in Nebraska
the Platte
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From a French phrase for “mobile hospital”, it’s a vehicle for transporting the sick or injured
Ambulance
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The corous triumphalis was one of these vehicles that victorious Roman generals rode into the city
Chariot
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1994, British Airways found and repaired hairline cracks in the wings of these jets that crack the sound barrier
Concorde
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Add two letters to the end of sled and you get this synonym
Sledge
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a streetcar or bus that runs on electricity supplied by an overhead wire
Trolley
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The first mile of concrete paving was laid in 1909 along this “Motor City”’s Woodward Avenue
Detroit
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| He’s in the record books for making the shortest manned space flight
Alan Shepard
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The battle in which this ship was nicknamed “Old Ironsides” lasted just 25 minutes
The Constitution
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The penny-farthing was an old-fashioned one of these
Bicycle
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It can be a bus for tourists or a private carriage for state occasions
Coach
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Like a rikshaw, a brouette was pulled by one of these
human
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this Chinese sailing ship is derived from Portuguese & Javanese, not Chinese
a junk
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This wheeled seat attached to a motorcycle debuted circa 1903; the cocktail came later
a sidecar
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The world’s largest railway station, this U.S. landmark covers some 48 acres
Grand Central Station
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Reynolds Metals donated the Aluminaut, the 1st all-aluminum one of these, to the Science Museum of Virginia
a submarine
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Last names of the motor car maker & mortor car dealer who merged in Manchester, England in 1906
Rolls & Royce
$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The world’s 14th largest airline is based in this 240-square-mile island nation
Singapore (Singapore Airlines)
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| For mountain touring, many people prefer this vehicle to have 18 or 21 speeds
a bicycle
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of man’s earliest boats was this type of canoe made by hollowing out a log
a dugout
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1990 this cruise line founded by a British shipowner celebrated its 150th anniversary
the Cunard Line
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In August 1991 this French automaker of the 405 Series said it will quit selling cars in the U.S.
Peugeot
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Japan’s Hosho, launched in 1922, was the first warship designed specifically for this use
launching airplanes (aircraft carrier)
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During WWI the British called them “limps”, the most common being the “B” type
Blimps
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s said these are “manned” in an emergency, but they’re usually womened & childrened first
Lifeboats
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A San Franciscan can tell you BART stands for this
Bay Area Rapid Transit
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s what “powered” the first B&O passenger train back in 1830
Horses
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Goodspeed, Sarah Constant & Discovery brought the first people to this settlement
Jamestown
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1830 England’s Manchester & Liverpool Railway became the 1st to have all trains powered by this
Steam
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This light Russian sleigh is pulled by 3 horses
Troika
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 1st of these high-speed German highways was opened between Cologne & Bonn in 1932
Autobahn
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Smaller than a junk, this Oriental boat usually has a cabin with a roof made of mats
Sampan
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Surprisingly, the Cadillac Motor Car Co. was founded by & originally named for this man
Henry Ford
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the winter of 1980, 3 men drove a snowmobile 5,876 miles from this state to Mich. in 39 days
Alaska
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In its commercials this company says, “We love to fly and it shows”
Delta Airlines
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 1 of 2 animals you could be riding if you were sitting on a “howdah”
Camel or Elephant
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (AUDIO Daily Double): Mode of transportation mentioned in the following folk song: “Not a shirt on my back, not a penny to my name, Lord, I can’t go home this way…”
Train/Railroad
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| World’s longest ocean liner, the France was renamed this after Knut Kloste bought her in 1979
The Norway
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Manhattan, most of these outdoor train lines have been torn down to eliminate noise & dirt
EL
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Chrysler executive who developed the Ford Mustang
Lee Iacocca
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 1st type of this railroad car was the “Delmonico” built by Pullman in 1868
Restaurant/Dining Car
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Directional axis of odd-numbered interstate highways
North-South
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Term for the detachable engine that’s mounted on the stern of a boat
an outboard motor
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The longest of the 4 canals in the New York State Barge Canal System
the Erie Canal
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Kelly Act of 1925 allowed the Post Office to contract companies to transport mail using these
airplanes
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Standard color of a radio flyer
red
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The national championships in this sport were held in August 1988 at a pad in Huntsville, Ala.
model rocketry
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Outcries by sports car fans convinced Ford to continue making this classic “pony” car
Mustang
$8000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Beijing nearly everyone commutes to work on these vehicles
bicycles
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier, sons of a French paper bag maker, invented this
hot air balloon
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| If you’re riding in the Maid of the Mist, you’re sightseeing at this landmark
Niagara Falls
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This major U.S. airport was built on an orchard, so it’s abbreviated “ORD” on luggage tags
O’Hare
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the “Maddencruiser,” complete with bed and shower
Bus
$4000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Doing this comes from the Roman custom of offering a drink to the gods when launching a ship
Breaking Champagne on the Prow
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In addition to a rudder and oars, most keelboats were equipped with these to aid travel
Sails
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft
Dirigibles
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Bells were rung across the U.S. as telegraphers relayed news of this event on May 10, 1869
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Ironically, this Chicago airport was named for a naval hero
O’ Hare International
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On July 21, 1959, the first cargo ship powered by this was launched at Camden, New Jersey
Nuclear Power
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1957 an Air Force doctor stayed a record 32 hours in the stratosphere in one of these
Balloon
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the Old West, this railroad, named for three cities, was said to have “started nowhere and went nowhere”
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| With over 200,000 miles of railroad tracks, this country has more than any other
United States
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A flying circus was a WWI squadron or a show featuring this style of flying
stunt or daredevil flying
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| John Fitch built a mechanically successful one of these almost 20 years before Fulton
a steamboat
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A 1984 count reportedly indicated this city’s streets contained 927,000 potholes
New York City
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| While in office, he became 1st president to ride in a car & submerge in a submarine
Theodore Roosevelt
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Guiness says on a calm night in 1966 one of these became largest object ever stolen by one man
a freighter (ship)
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Group which topped the country charts with <a>the following</a> song about a truck driver: <i>[Truck noises] “Roll on, highway / Roll on along / Roll on, Daddy, ‘til you get back home / Roll on family / Roll on crew / Roll on, Mama, like I asked you to do / And roll on eighteen wheeler, roll on / (Roll on!)…”</i>
Alabama
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In production from 1897 to 1924, this car was nicknamed “The Tea Kettle”
the Stanley Steamer
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Exactly a month after the Boeing 747 made its maiden flight, this Anglo-French airliner was 1st flown
Concorde
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The largest of these, such as Russian Typhoons & U.S. Tridents, are almost 2 football fields long
submarines
$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 1950s, this European car company introduced gasoline fuel injection
Mercedes
$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Shielded by a car, in 1941 Alf Letourner hit a speed over 108 mph on this
bicycle
$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Introduced during the middle ages, the use of this allowed horses to pull a much greater load
padded horse collar
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This company is #1 in bus transportation & bus manufacturing
Greyhound
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| W. & O. Wright felt passengers wouldn’t mind flying in this position they 1st flew in themselves
on their stomachs
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This form of transport still carries the most freight in the U.S.
a railroad
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It could be paddle wheel, cargo or tramp
a steamer
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Charlton Heston was “on track” with it in “Ben Hur”
a chariot
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during <a>this</a> song:
a bicycle
$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Type of auto engine, or a tomato cocktail
V8
$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Lindbergh was not first to fly the Atlantic, but first to do it this way
solo
$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Derived from words “American”, “travel”, & “track”, it provides most U.S. passenger rail service
Amtrak
$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| London’s, not New York’s, was the first ever built
subway (underground, metro)
$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Changing lines, you could have at one time ridden these from Freeport, IL to Utica, NY
streetcars
