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