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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Locomotives built for the Panama Canal were called <a>these</a>; they took jobs from hybrid animals that towed barges elsewhere

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mules

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$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”

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the automobile

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$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

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(Jacques) Cousteau

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Precedent is a model of this small sporting vehicle that also moves people around retirement villages

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a golf cart

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The typing one of these fast 19th century ships is seen <a>here</a>

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a clipper

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$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

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private jets

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Thoreau wrote, “Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for” this narrow boat

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a canoe

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$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

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a spoiler

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$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the innovative 2-wheeled transporter “dedicated to moving you”

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a Segway

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$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This motorcycle co. whose factory 100 years ago was “The Wigwam” is once again in business after a bumpy history

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Indian

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Developed in the 1830s, this cab named for its inventor put the driver on an elevated seat in the rear

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a hansom

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$3500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On the BBC’s “Cranford”, set in the 1840s, the title village freaks out because this is coming

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a train (or railway)

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$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The MD in MD-80 stands for this company that merged with Boeing in 1997

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McDonnell Douglas

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$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Ernst Henne was “the fastest man on two wheels”, hitting 173 mph in 1937 on a motorcycle from this company

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BMW

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Michauxes added pedals to the front wheel of a velocipede & became the “fathers of” this vehicle

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the bicycle

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One line of the Montreal Metro, this type of transportation, passes beneath the St. Lawrence River

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a subway

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Pan-American Highway’s southernmost point is Puerto Montt, 560 miles south of Santiago in this country

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Chile

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$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

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a rickshaw

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This light Russian sleigh, whose name means “a group of 3”, is pulled by 3 horses

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a troika

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Roofed cars on a freight train, or a roll of 12 in a dice game

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boxcars

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this vehicle used on grave occasions comes from the Old French for “long rake”

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a hearse

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the Cold War, 2 different families escaped over the Berlin Wall using these lighter-than-air vehicles

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hot air balloons

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From 1985 to 2003, Milwaukee hosted a parade featuring dozens of these wagons from Baraboo

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circus wagons

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$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

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a pram

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1904 C.H. Lang of Chicago opened the first dealership devoted to this Milwaukee-based motorcycle co.

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Harley-Davidson

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Baltimore clippers of the late 18th & early 19th centuries were first built at shipyards on this bay

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Chesapeake Bay

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 7-letter term for a place to plunk down your whirlybird, as on the top of an office building

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a helipad

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1956, using a lawn-mower engine & metal tubing, Art Ingels built the first one of these

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a go-kart

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 296 feet long to climb 189 feet, the USA’s shortest & steepest of these still operates in Dubuque

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a funicular

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The bestselling passenger car of all time is this company’s Corolla

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Toyota

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these

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a carriage

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$1200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining “the knowledge”, mental maps needed to get a license

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London

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$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In “Sixteen Candles”, Molly Ringwald says, “I loathe” this method of transport

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the bus

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets

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mules

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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this airline established in 1948 means “skyward”

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El Al

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The FJ Cruiser is from Toyota; the PT Cruiser, from this automaker

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Chrysler

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$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

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Harley-Davidson

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “The relentless pursuit of perfection” is the goal of this luxury automaker

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Lexus

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The first logo of this sporty Italian carmaker included the Visconti serpent, a Milanese symbol

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Alfa Romeo

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this car line means “a descendant”

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the Scion

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The HU-1A “Huey” was the main Medevac one of these in the Vietnam War

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a helicopter

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Montgolfier brothers were papermakers by profession & used paper in their early ones of these

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a balloon

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a device used to connect railroad cars; today’s automatic knuckle one was patented by Eli Janney in 1873

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a coupler

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Introduced in Britain in 1948, this brand soon became the standard for rugged 4-wheel drive vehicles

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the Land Rover

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1987 Greyhound Lines bought this Dallas-based competitor

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Trailways

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Karl Probst designed an army recon vehicle in 2 days in 1940; we know it better as this

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the Jeep

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$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

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engines

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “Flight attendants prepare doors for departure and” do this means make sure your door & the one opposite yours are armed

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cross-check

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1783 Benjamin Franklin saw the first piloted flight of this type of transport while in Paris

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a hot air balloon

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$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

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a parachute

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this New York-Boston train combines “acceleration” & “excellence”

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the Acela

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$2400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 3 broad classes of operational aviation are general, military, & this type of civil aviation

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commercial

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In railroading, maglev is short for this

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magnetic levitation

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| After turning the key, it’s the final action with which you start a Yamaha YZ426F 4-stroke motorcycle

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kick

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad opened in 1836 powered by this, but soon became Canada’s first powered by steam

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horses

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$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The U.S. company Trek makes Lance Armstrong’s bikes from a composite of this often-compounded element

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carbon

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$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1980 you could haul brie in the Renault sold in the U.S. under this half-French name

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Le Car

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$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

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a helicopter

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| There are no knife or spoon varieties of these vehicles used in warehouses to raise & carry merchandise

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forklifts

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$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

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a submarine

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$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

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the English Channel

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state

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a battleship

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These transports, first sent up in 1981, lift off like a rocket & land like a plane

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space shuttles

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These have largely replaced dogsleds as the Eskimos’ main mode of winter transportation

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snowmobiles

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Edward Lear’s poem, “The Owl and the Pussycat” head to sea in this colorful transport

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a pea-green boat

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| These trains were introduced in October 1964 to celebrate the first Olympic Games held in Asia

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bullet trains

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Suspended from an overhead wire, it transports passengers up steep hills or across valleys

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cable car

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In trucking a triple-sized one of these, pulled by a tractor, can be as long as a 10-story building

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trailer

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$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

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Zeppelin

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 1940s Robert Edison Fulton Jr. designed the Airphibian, a car that was also one of these

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plane

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Offered since 1959, it gives you travel for a fixed time period on train systems in 17 European countries

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Eurailpass

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Scheduled to set sail in 2004, its logo is seen here (QM2)

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Queen Mary 2

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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On December 11, 1967 it was removed from the British registry & turned over to the city of Long Beach, California

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the Queen Mary

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| To shield them from impact, the flight recorders nicknamed these are installed in the back of the plane

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black boxes

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the equipment Tony Hawk uses doing tricks like the Popshuvit Nosegrind

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skateboard

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$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

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carriage

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$1600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Going into production in 2003, this German automaker’s SLR will feature gullwing doors

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Mercedes-Benz

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$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew) It’s the “monetary” name for this turn-of -the-century wheel transport

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penny-farthing

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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1936 the man who beat Joe Louis returned home on the famous craft named this

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the Hindenburg

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Reptoid, seen here, is this type of vehicle; the fangs might be a clue

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monster truck

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| As a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during WWI Ernest Hemingway drove one of these vehicles

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ambulance

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Most commercial freight on the Mississippi travels in barges pushed by this type of boat

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tugboat

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This space shuttle that made its maiden voyage in 1992 was built to replace Challenger

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Endeavour

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The railroad known by this hyphenated name runs over 5,000 miles from Moscow to Vladivostok

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

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$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

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the Goodyear Blimps

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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Opened in 2000, the world’s longest higway tunnel at 15.2 miles links Oslo and Bergen in this country

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Norway

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1785 Congress began mail service using this horse-drawn carriage

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stagecoach

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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Eclipse and Galant are 2 of the cars driving up business for this Japanese automaker

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Mitsubishi

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An SST can travel at over 1,300 mph; SS stands for this

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supersonic

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of these in Wuppertal, Germany has been operating since 1901, the year Walt Disney was born

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monorail

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Henry Ford once said you could buy a Model T in any color as long as it was this

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Black

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In other news…a stowaway from Tahiti recently survived a death-defying airline flight to L.A. while hiding here

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Wheel well

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An aircraft that can take off & touch down on water or land is called this, like a class of animals

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Amphibious

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$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

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North America

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the early 1990s the Ford Taurus overtook this model of Honda as No. 1 in U.S. auto sales

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Accord

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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This wheeled war vehicle was introduced to the Egyptians around 1600 B.C. by an invading people called the Hyksos

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Chariot

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The SR.N4 MK III, one of the largest of these, crosses the English Channel on a cushion of air

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Hovercraft

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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1993 this former Denver mayor became the first Hispanic-American Secretary of Transportation

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Federico Pena

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From a French phrase for “traveling hospital”, it’ll get you to the hospital quickly in an emergency

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Ambulance

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Type of airplane seen here; it gets its name from its double-wing structure

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Biplane

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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| “Feline” name for the type of boat seen here

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Catamaran

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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The tail rotor counters torque on this type of aircraft developed in the 1930s

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Helicopter

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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Seen here, it’s something you have to have “patients” to move around

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Gurney

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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This alliterative term for a car with low fuel efficiency became common in the 1970s

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a gas guzzler

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Found on many sport utility vehicles, it’s a system where both axles provide propulsion

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4-wheel drive (or all-wheel drive)

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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Transport that helped the Finns in the 1939-40 winter war & helped Finn Matti Nykaenen finnish with Olympic gold

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skis

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This device increases a jet plane’s thrust by burning exhaust gases

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afterburners

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108
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the high-speed train that runs between NYC & Washington, D.C.

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the Metroliner

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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This travel organization responds to almost 30 million emergency road service calls a year

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AAA

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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Dedicated in 1962, the Thatcher Ferry Bridge spans the Pacific entrance to this canal

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Panama Canal

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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1995 this agency, the ICC, issued Santa a permit to operate “as a common carrier by 2-runner sleigh”

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Features on this luxury liner include the Grand Lounge & the Queens Grill, one of 5 gourmet restaurants

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QE2

113
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1887 Canada’s Transcontinental Railroad reached from Montreal to this west coast city

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Vancouver

114
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Sikorsky Skycrane, this type of aircraft, can lift 10 tons while hovering

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helicopter

115
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This city’s subway system, made up of the IRT, BMT & IND, has 238 route miles & 469 stations

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New York

116
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1996 this company began leasing electric-powered EV1s through its Saturn dealerships

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General Motors

117
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The British SRN 4 type of this machine was designed to ferry people & cars across the English Channel

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hovercraft

118
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This type of fishing boat drags a large conical net behind it

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trawler

119
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Nonrigid airships, like the ones used for advertising, are more commonly called this

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blimps

120
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Russia’s Lunokhod I was the first wheeled vehicle used here

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the Moon

121
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1993 Barbara Harmer became the first woman to co-pilot this supersonic plane

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the Concorde

122
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The “Baltimore” type of this sailing ship originated in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 1800s

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a clipper ship

123
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This rugged vehicle may derive its name from the abbreviation for “general purpose”

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Jeep

124
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Accommodating 3,000 passengers, this “Festive” company’s new cruise ship Destiny is the world’s largest

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Carnival Cruise Lines

125
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Natural Gasser II, this type of car, can travel a quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds on natural gas fuel

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Dragster

126
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In August 1995 this company introduced the Outback, a hybrid station wagon & sport utility vehicle

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Subaru

127
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This military vehicle got its name from a British codeword when “Landship” never caught on

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Tank

128
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Arab ships called dhows are lateen rigged, meaning their sails are roughly this shape

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Triangular

129
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| French authorities may build another airport for this city already served by Orly & De Gaulle

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Paris

130
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The icebreaker “Nathaniel B. Palmer” has carried scientists to study the Ross Sea off this continent

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Antarctica

131
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A new research submarine, Deep Flight I, includes these airplane features turned upside down

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Wings

132
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Before the 1960s these vehicles that carry the injured were rarely stocked with medical equipment

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Ambulances

133
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Fleetwood Enterprises makes these vehicles under the names Jamboree, Pace Arrow & Tioga

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Motor Homes/RV’s

134
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a luxurious chaffeur-driven auto, whether regular or “stretch”

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Limousine

135
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Built in 1802, the Charlotte Dundas was the first of these small harbor ships used to maneuver larger ships

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a tugboat

136
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of America’s busiest airports, its 3-letter designation is ORD

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O’Hare Airport (Chicago)

137
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This 2-wheeled, 2-passenger 19th century London cab had an elevated driver’s seat in the rear

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Hansom cab

138
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Bridgeport, Conn.’s airport is named for this helicopter pioneer whose aircraft plant was in the city

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Igor Sikorsky

139
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This state leads the U.S. in number of registered automobiles with over 17 million

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California

140
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Air in this tunnel between NYC & Jersey City comes from giant fans in 4 10-story towers

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the Holland Tunnel

141
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This state capital has a Wiley Post Airport as well as a Will Rogers Airport

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Oklahoma City

142
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This series of canals allows transportations and commerce between Lakes Superior & Huron

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the Sault Ste. Marie Canals

143
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This city’s Logan International Airport is about 180 miles closer to Europe than New York City is

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Boston

144
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Around 1914 the Gulf Oil Company became the first to give away these free guides to travelers

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Road maps

145
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Construction & maintenance costs of this New York waterway were defrayed by tolls until 1882

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Erie Canal

146
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the south Pacific an outrigger type of this craft has a framework for stability

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Canoe

147
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Japan this high-speed train shuttles passengers between cities at over 150 miles per hour

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Bullet train

148
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This trade union includes chauffeurs, warehousemen & helpers

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Teamsters

149
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The elevated tracks of the “People Mover” move people around this American “Motor City”

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Detroit

150
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Kanmon Tunnel, the world’s first under an ocean, connects the island of Kyushu with this island

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Honshu

151
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| An “underground city” connects the subway with downtown offices & shopping in this largest Quebec city

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Montreal

152
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a chair carried on poles by porters, or a car with 4 doors

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sedan

153
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$2000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This consortium of European aircraft makers is headquartered near Toulouse, France

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Airbus

154
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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1910 the “Deutschland” inaugurated commercial passenger service in one of these

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Zeppelin/dirigible

155
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| According to census data, the average time for this trip in metropolitan areas is 23.2 minutes

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Trip to work/commute

156
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The basket beneath a balloon is called this, like a Venetian boat

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Gondola

157
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Term for a bus, elevator or NYC subway train that makes few stops

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Express

158
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 19th century Gustavus Swift developed this type of railway car to preserve his packed meat

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Refrigerator Car

159
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Some surfing techniques were adapted to concrete by devotees of this device

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skateboard

160
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This 2-wheeled east Asian cart is pulled by a runner called a shafu

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Rickshaw

161
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A 1935 act of Congress gave this agency, the ICC, authority over motor carriers & drivers

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Interstate Commerce Commission

162
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In terms of total passengers, this London airport is the world’s busiest outside the U.S.

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Heathrow

163
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1840 this line sent its first ship, the Britannia, across the Atlantic

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Cunard Line

164
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1954 this city opened Canada’s first subway

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Toronto

165
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Metro Red Line, which began service in L.A. in 1993, is this form of transportation

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Subway

166
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the auto company that makes the Maxima & the Altima

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Nissan

167
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| France’s high-speed trains are known by this 3-letter abbreviation

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TGV (Trains Grande Vitesse)

168
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It was the nickname of the Curtiss JN4, once used to carry air mail

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“Jenny”

169
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| They were the 2 largest passenger ships afloat when they were retired in 1967 & 1968

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Queen Elizabeth & Queen Mary

170
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From Port Said to Al-Qantara, this canal passes through Lake Manzala, a lagoon

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the Suez Canal

171
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Operating since 1901, this country’s Schwebebahn is the oldest existing monorail

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Germany

172
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the Boer War, this Indian nationalist leader organized an ambulance corps for the British army

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Mahatma Gandhi

173
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the Olympics these vehicles race on oval tracks called velodromes

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bicycles

174
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1956 this Finnish-American architect designed the Trans World Airlines terminal at JFK Airport

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Eero Saarinen

175
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s sometimes called the tube or underground

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the (London) subway

176
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The largest airport in this state is Logan International Airport in Biillings

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Montana

177
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| About 80% of the motorcycles bought in the U.S. are produced by this country

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Japan

178
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a system in which a vehicle runs along a single, elevated beam; Expo 67 had 3

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a monorail

179
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This highway system extends from Alaska to the southern part of South America

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the Pan-American HIghway

180
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In May 1995 this company delivered its first 777

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Boeing

181
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1979 Israel sent its first cargo ship through this waterway

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Suez Canal

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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This runnerless sled was first used by North American Indians to haul supplies & game over the snow

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Toboggan

183
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This type of aircraft is sometimes called a sailplane

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Glider

184
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s the name shared by an early warship propelled by oars & the kitchen of a boat or ship

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Galley

185
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Not surprisingly, there are more motor vehicles registered in this state than any other

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California

186
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this form of transportation comes from a Latin word meaning “for all”

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Omnibus

187
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1910, it became the first type of aircraft to offer commercial passenger service

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Dirigible

188
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Completed in 1916, this Russian railroad is the longest in the world

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Trans-Siberian Railroad

189
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1994 this ill-fated Italian cruise ship sank off the coast of Somalia

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Achille Lauro

190
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The wheels of these ancient Egyptian vehicles usually had 6 spokes

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chariots

191
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Fire departments have 3 main types of truck: pumper, rescue & this kind

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ladder

192
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Marked out in 1775, it was Kentucky’s first road

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the Wilderness Road

193
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| New Mexico’s first railroad, it began operation in the state in 1878

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the (Atchison, Topeka and) Santa Fe Railway

194
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Oregon, California & Mormon trails followed this east-west River in Nebraska

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the Platte

195
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| From a French phrase for “mobile hospital”, it’s a vehicle for transporting the sick or injured

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Ambulance

196
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The corous triumphalis was one of these vehicles that victorious Roman generals rode into the city

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Chariot

197
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1994, British Airways found and repaired hairline cracks in the wings of these jets that crack the sound barrier

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Concorde

198
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Add two letters to the end of sled and you get this synonym

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Sledge

199
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s a streetcar or bus that runs on electricity supplied by an overhead wire

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Trolley

200
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The first mile of concrete paving was laid in 1909 along this “Motor City”’s Woodward Avenue

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Detroit

201
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| He’s in the record books for making the shortest manned space flight

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Alan Shepard

202
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The battle in which this ship was nicknamed “Old Ironsides” lasted just 25 minutes

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The Constitution

203
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The penny-farthing was an old-fashioned one of these

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Bicycle

204
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It can be a bus for tourists or a private carriage for state occasions

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Coach

205
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Like a rikshaw, a brouette was pulled by one of these

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human

206
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The name of this Chinese sailing ship is derived from Portuguese & Javanese, not Chinese

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a junk

207
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This wheeled seat attached to a motorcycle debuted circa 1903; the cocktail came later

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a sidecar

208
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The world’s largest railway station, this U.S. landmark covers some 48 acres

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Grand Central Station

209
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Reynolds Metals donated the Aluminaut, the 1st all-aluminum one of these, to the Science Museum of Virginia

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a submarine

210
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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Last names of the motor car maker & mortor car dealer who merged in Manchester, England in 1906

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Rolls & Royce

211
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$None ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The world’s 14th largest airline is based in this 240-square-mile island nation

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Singapore (Singapore Airlines)

212
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| For mountain touring, many people prefer this vehicle to have 18 or 21 speeds

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a bicycle

213
Q

$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| One of man’s earliest boats was this type of canoe made by hollowing out a log

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a dugout

214
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1990 this cruise line founded by a British shipowner celebrated its 150th anniversary

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the Cunard Line

215
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In August 1991 this French automaker of the 405 Series said it will quit selling cars in the U.S.

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Peugeot

216
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Japan’s Hosho, launched in 1922, was the first warship designed specifically for this use

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launching airplanes (aircraft carrier)

217
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During WWI the British called them “limps”, the most common being the “B” type

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Blimps

218
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s said these are “manned” in an emergency, but they’re usually womened & childrened first

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Lifeboats

219
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A San Franciscan can tell you BART stands for this

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Bay Area Rapid Transit

220
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It’s what “powered” the first B&O passenger train back in 1830

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Horses

221
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Goodspeed, Sarah Constant & Discovery brought the first people to this settlement

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Jamestown

222
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1830 England’s Manchester & Liverpool Railway became the 1st to have all trains powered by this

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Steam

223
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This light Russian sleigh is pulled by 3 horses

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Troika

224
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 1st of these high-speed German highways was opened between Cologne & Bonn in 1932

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Autobahn

225
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Smaller than a junk, this Oriental boat usually has a cabin with a roof made of mats

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Sampan

226
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Surprisingly, the Cadillac Motor Car Co. was founded by & originally named for this man

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Henry Ford

227
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| During the winter of 1980, 3 men drove a snowmobile 5,876 miles from this state to Mich. in 39 days

A

Alaska

228
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In its commercials this company says, “We love to fly and it shows”

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Delta Airlines

229
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| 1 of 2 animals you could be riding if you were sitting on a “howdah”

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Camel or Elephant

230
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$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…”

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Train/Railroad

231
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| World’s longest ocean liner, the France was renamed this after Knut Kloste bought her in 1979

A

The Norway

232
Q

$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Manhattan, most of these outdoor train lines have been torn down to eliminate noise & dirt

A

EL

233
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Chrysler executive who developed the Ford Mustang

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Lee Iacocca

234
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The 1st type of this railroad car was the “Delmonico” built by Pullman in 1868

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Restaurant/Dining Car

235
Q

$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Directional axis of odd-numbered interstate highways

A

North-South

236
Q

$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Term for the detachable engine that’s mounted on the stern of a boat

A

an outboard motor

237
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The longest of the 4 canals in the New York State Barge Canal System

A

the Erie Canal

238
Q

$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The Kelly Act of 1925 allowed the Post Office to contract companies to transport mail using these

A

airplanes

239
Q

$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Standard color of a radio flyer

A

red

240
Q

$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The national championships in this sport were held in August 1988 at a pad in Huntsville, Ala.

A

model rocketry

241
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Outcries by sports car fans convinced Ford to continue making this classic “pony” car

A

Mustang

242
Q

$8000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In Beijing nearly everyone commutes to work on these vehicles

A

bicycles

243
Q

$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier, sons of a French paper bag maker, invented this

A

hot air balloon

244
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| If you’re riding in the Maid of the Mist, you’re sightseeing at this landmark

A

Niagara Falls

245
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This major U.S. airport was built on an orchard, so it’s abbreviated “ORD” on luggage tags

A

O’Hare

246
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the “Maddencruiser,” complete with bed and shower

A

Bus

247
Q

$4000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Doing this comes from the Roman custom of offering a drink to the gods when launching a ship

A

Breaking Champagne on the Prow

248
Q

$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In addition to a rudder and oars, most keelboats were equipped with these to aid travel

A

Sails

249
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft

A

Dirigibles

250
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Bells were rung across the U.S. as telegraphers relayed news of this event on May 10, 1869

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Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

251
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Ironically, this Chicago airport was named for a naval hero

A

O’ Hare International

252
Q

$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| On July 21, 1959, the first cargo ship powered by this was launched at Camden, New Jersey

A

Nuclear Power

253
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In 1957 an Air Force doctor stayed a record 32 hours in the stratosphere in one of these

A

Balloon

254
Q

$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the Old West, this railroad, named for three cities, was said to have “started nowhere and went nowhere”

A

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe

255
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| With over 200,000 miles of railroad tracks, this country has more than any other

A

United States

256
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A flying circus was a WWI squadron or a show featuring this style of flying

A

stunt or daredevil flying

257
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| John Fitch built a mechanically successful one of these almost 20 years before Fulton

A

a steamboat

258
Q

$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| A 1984 count reportedly indicated this city’s streets contained 927,000 potholes

A

New York City

259
Q

$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| While in office, he became 1st president to ride in a car & submerge in a submarine

A

Theodore Roosevelt

260
Q

$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Guiness says on a calm night in 1966 one of these became largest object ever stolen by one man

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a freighter (ship)

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$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>

A

Alabama

262
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In production from 1897 to 1924, this car was nicknamed “The Tea Kettle”

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the Stanley Steamer

263
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Exactly a month after the Boeing 747 made its maiden flight, this Anglo-French airliner was 1st flown

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Concorde

264
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| The largest of these, such as Russian Typhoons & U.S. Tridents, are almost 2 football fields long

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submarines

265
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$600 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| In the 1950s, this European car company introduced gasoline fuel injection

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Mercedes

266
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$800 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Shielded by a car, in 1941 Alf Letourner hit a speed over 108 mph on this

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bicycle

267
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$1000 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Introduced during the middle ages, the use of this allowed horses to pull a much greater load

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padded horse collar

268
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This company is #1 in bus transportation & bus manufacturing

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Greyhound

269
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| W. & O. Wright felt passengers wouldn’t mind flying in this position they 1st flew in themselves

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on their stomachs

270
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| This form of transport still carries the most freight in the U.S.

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a railroad

271
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| It could be paddle wheel, cargo or tramp

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a steamer

272
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Charlton Heston was “on track” with it in “Ben Hur”

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a chariot

273
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Vehicle Butch Cassidy rode during <a>this</a> song:

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a bicycle

274
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$100 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Type of auto engine, or a tomato cocktail

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V8

275
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$200 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Lindbergh was not first to fly the Atlantic, but first to do it this way

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solo

276
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$300 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Derived from words “American”, “travel”, & “track”, it provides most U.S. passenger rail service

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Amtrak

277
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$400 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| London’s, not New York’s, was the first ever built

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subway (underground, metro)

278
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$500 ||| Category: TRANSPORTATION ||| Changing lines, you could have at one time ridden these from Freeport, IL to Utica, NY

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streetcars

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