Quiz:  The Train Era

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1.  A locomotive is a vehicle that:
needs to calm down people drove like cars runs on railroad tracks knows all the times tables
 
2.  Who built the first locomotive?
Richard Trevithick Richard Simmons Richard Pryor Richard Nixon
 
3.  The first locomotives were powered by:
their sense of smell gasoline love of travel steam
 
4.  Steam engines also were used to power:
sailboats steamboats very, very old cars airplanes
 
5.  The United States built a railroad that went from Sacramento to:
Emeryville Barstow New York Ancient Rome
 
6.  Before the invention of trains, trolley cars were pulled by:
Richard Trevithick horses and mules lions and tigers anyone who felt bored
 
7.  Los Angeles' Pacific Electric Railway system was the biggest electric railway system:
built by Henry Huntington in the world in California in this galaxy
 


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