Running Mates
This NY congresswoman served has Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984
Geraldine Ferraro
This river , the second longest in China gets its name from the color of sediment it carries through 9 provinces
Yellow
Founded in 1900 this company is still most recognizable manufacturer of toy trains in America
Lionel
Before fire engines and pumps this type of human chain was employed to stop fires
Bucket brigade
The type of wind that pushes airplanes going east and slows them going west
Jet Stream
Bob Dole proved to be unsuccessful on a national ticket in 1976 as running mate to this incumbent
Gerald Ford
This Asian river has its headwaters in Tibet and flows through three capital cities , Vientiane, Laos, Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Ho Chi Minh City ,Viet Nam
The Mekong
Funiculars are a cable moved rail system designed to move in this direction
Up a slope
This great city fire was blamed on a cow
Chicago Fire of 1871
What high wind fluctuations are called
gusts
This man was FDRs running mate in 1944
Harry Truman
This river , the longest in the world, flows due north
The Nile
This train service that runs from Folkstone England to Calais France is commonly called this
The Chunnel
This device was invented by a Swede using yellow phosphorus as an igniter
matches
The simple device was used by early airfields and is still used today to tell pilots wind direction and relative wind speed.
Wind socks
Daily Double !!!!! Losing to Bill Clinton and Al Gore in 1996 , this man was Bob Dole's running mate
Jack Kemp
The longest river in Europe and entirely in Russia
the Volga
Transcontinental train service became available in 1869 when tracks from the east , Union Pacific ,and tracks from the west ,Central Pacific , met in this US state
Utah
Daily Double!!!!! Mining fires have proven to be disastrous and in some cases impossible to extinguish with 2 such fires burning in this US state, one since 1915 and another since 1962 that made the town of Centralia uninhabitable
Pennsylvania
This New England location has observed some of the highest wind speeds on earth not related to hurricanes or tornados
Mt Washington
This man who was the first director of the Peace Corps was the running mate of George McGovern in 1972
Sergeant Shriver
One of the two main tributaries of the Mississippi River
The Ohio or the Missouri
What the term "gauge" refers to in trains, where standard gauge is used almost everywhere in the US with some notable exceptions like Mount Washington,s Cog Railway and San Francisco's Cable Cars
The width of track
The deadliest nightclub fire in history occurred in Boston in 1942 in this club
The Coconut Grove
This type of storm usually associated with Asia, with high winds and massive amounts of rain that last for days and sometimes weeks
Monsoon