The Road Geek Challenge

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I can answer 20, I go to Italy a lot.

 

Hmm... now that I think about it, it's very tough for me to explain the shape, I know that it's green with a sort

-of rectangle.

 

A pic:

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The answers to set #3:

19) What is an HOV lane? HOW stands for High occupancy vehicle. Depending on the state, you must have at least two or three people in the car to be in one during rush hour.  

20) What color and shape is used to represent the Italian Autostrad

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28) Westminster Bridge?

32) The world's longest transport tunnel is the Seikan Tunnel in Japan, between the islands Honshu and Hokkaido. But the world's longest tunnel of any kind is the New York City West Delaware water-supply tunnel in the US.

33) It's the Laerdal Tunnel in Norway, on a highway between Bergen and Oslo.

34) Sydney, Australia.

35) Union Bridge over the River Tweed at Berwick in the UK.

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28. Tower Bridge (I'm a Brit...)
29. True?
Don't know any of the others...

EDIT: East Anglian Brit... Don't know Berwick-upon-Tweed and all that...

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The answers to set #4:

28)What bridge in london do most tourists confuse with London Bridge? Tower Bridge

29) True or false: an interstate sheild, apparently with the number '95' was visible on one of the Highway signs in SC3K on the closest zoom. True

30) What is the 'direction of index' on a highway? East on an E/W highway, North on a N/S highway.

31) What do truckers refer to state police as? Smokeys

32) Where is the worlds longest tunnel? Seikan Tinnel between Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan.

33) Where is the longest tunnel that cars can pass through? Laedral Tunnel, Norway.

34) Where is the worlds widest bridge? Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney, Australia.

35) Where is the world's oldest suspension bridge? Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn/Manhattan, New York, USA

36) The Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay in florida had to have it's main section rebuilt in the mid-1980's. Why? A tanker crashed into one or the towers, knocking the bridge down.

 

Set #5:

37) What is Engine Braking?

38) What is scientifically determined to be the worst type of music to be listening to while driving, in terms of distraction?

39) What is the only highway on any federal or state register of historic places (U.S.)?

40) How does U.S. 101 break the rules?

41) True or False: In Rochester, New Yok, there is a traffic light with green on top and red on the bottom.

42) True or False: there are no Expressways in Iraq.

43) Where is the longest distance between two exits on a highway in the US?

44) Where is the longest distance that two highways merge in the world?

45) According to a study, what kind of cars get pulled over most in the US?

 

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37) What is Engine Braking?

I think it's when you lower the gear or turn off the engine to stop. That term isn't used much here. We have our own word for it, it's weird too.

38) What is scientifically determined to be the worst type of music to be listening to while driving, in terms of distraction?

Loud music. those big bass speakers are on the edge of illegality in Canada.

39) What is the only highway on any federal or state register of historic places (U.S.)?

Google gave me Highway 23

40) How does U.S. 101 break the rules?

Couldn't find any info..

41) True or False: In Rochester, New Yok, there is a traffic light with green on top and red on the bottom.

Where is New Yok? There is one in Rochester New York, I know that for sure! True!

42) True or False: there are no Expressways in Iraq.

I'll say no, I couldn't not find anything about that.

43) Where is the longest distance between two exits on a highway in the US?

Don't know..

44) Where is the longest distance that two highways merge in the world?

Don't know.. I do know what the longest highway is.

45) According to a study, what kind of cars get pulled over most in the US?

Don't know..

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42) true

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An engin brake is also called a jackobs brake and also a retarder brake.
when you turn on the retarder brake it delays the valves from opening, so when the cylinder comes up
on the exaust stroke it pressures up quite high before the valve opens which in affect makes a popping
sound, and the same on the intake stroke, it starves the cylinder from air. and that makes the engin act as a brake

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42. U.S. 101 only highway to have included a ferry in the route in the past?

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Now why did I never post the answers???

 

Answers to Set #5:

37) What is 'Engine Braking'? Slowing down by switching into a lower gear

38 ) What is scientifically determined to be the worst type of music to be listening to while driving, in terms of distraction? Either heavy metal or classical

39) What is the only highway on any federal or state register of historic places (U.S.)? Merritt Parkway, Fairfied County, CT

40) How does U.S. 101 break the rules? It's over 3000 mies away from US 1, which it should be a spur of.

41) True or False: In Rochester, New Yok, there is a traffic light with green on top and red on the bottom. True

42) True or False: there are no Expressways in Iraq. False

43) Where is the longest distance between two exits on a highway in the US? On Florida's Turnpike, between exits 193 and 242, a distance of 49 miles

44) Where is the longest distance that two highways merge in the world? Interstates 80 and 90 from Gary, Indiana to Amherst, Ohio, a distance of 285 miles

45) According to a study, what kind of cars get pulled over most in the US? Red and Black cars with tinted windows

 

Set #6:

46) True or false: In lower manhattan, near the wiliamsburg bridge, there is a short section of freeway underground, sealed up and never used

47) What is unique about the broadway bridge in New York City?

48 ) Currently, three bridges in New York City carry subway trains as well as vehicular traffic. What are they?

49) Where is the worlds largest interchange?

50) Where is the highest point on the Interstate system?

51) Where is the highest road in the United States?

52) Where, up until 2004, could you have found an exit that had no description other than Local Streets?

53) Where can you find a no name exit?

54) Where can you find a sign that might make you think an exit is up for sale?