[guide.chat] pub quiz transport

From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:51:01 -0000

1.      Which locomotive reached a record speed of 97.5mph (157km/h) on the 
London to Leeds run in 1934?

2.      What container port on the Thames replaced the Port of London Docks as 
they closed down?

3.      Which car maker received the first royal warrant as a supplier of motor 
cars to the Crown?

4.      What propelled Leon Serpollet's car when he broke the world speed 
record at 110 km/h (74 mph) in 1902?

5.      The name of which 19th-century American maker has become synonymous 
with luxury railway cars?

6.      What prestigious cruise liner was requisitioned as a hospital ship 
during the Falklands War?

7.      Which 19805 gull-wing sportscar was produced in Northern Ireland before 
the company went bust?

8.      Who is currently having what is likely to be the worlds most expensive 
holiday?

9.      What ill-fated high-speed train with a revolutionary tilting mechanism 
was revealed by British Rail in 1981?

10.     Until Henry Ford formed his own company in 1903, which great 
inventor-friend employed him?  

ANSWERS
1. The Flying Scotsman

2. Tilbury

3. Daimler

4. Steam

5. George Mortimer Pullman

6. The QE2  (Canberra and Uganda are other possible answers)
7. The Delorean

8. Dennis Tito (First tourist in space)

9. Advanced Passenger Train

10. Thomas Edison


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