The Panama Canal work crews were divided into three sections: The Atlantic Division, the ___________ Division and the Pacific Division
What is Central
100
True or False: The U.S. paid more for the Panama Canal Zone (1/3 the size of Long Island) than the Louisiana Purchase ($15 million), Alaska ($7.5 million) and the Philippines ($20 million) COMBINED.
What is TRUE
100
On a trip from New York to San Francisco, how many miles did the Panama route save : 800, 8,000 or 80,000?
What is 8,000
100
At about 30,000 square miles, larger than Ireland and about the same size as South Carolina
What is Panama
100
"He was in the habit of 'looking in' on his children before state dinners, by which he meant a terrific pillow fight."
Who is Teddy Roosevelt
200
The Panama Canal runs between two ports : Panama City on the Pacific Ocean and this city on the Gulf of Mexico (Hint: He smells goooooood!)
What is Colon
200
A Cueva Indian word, "Panama" literally means "a place where many ________________ are taken" Hint: rhymes with viscious
What is fishes
200
The minimum depth of the canal was set to be 9 meters: is this closer to 30 feet or 50 feet?
What is 30 feet
200
"It had to be seen, to be felt, smelled; it had to be heard to be appreciated...as though the air had turned instantly liquid" (4 letters)
What is (Panamanian) RAIN
200
The Panama Canal was built under 3 American Presidents. Spell 1.
Who is Roosevelt, Taft, or Wilson
300
The three most common establishments in the port city of Colon during the first years of construction were gambling houses, saloons and manufacturers of this type of box
What are COFFINS
300
There is no difference between the levels of the the two oceans, only in their _________________ (which range from 18-20 feet on the Pacific side to <1 foot on the Caribbean side)
What is tides
300
Teddy Roosevelt read an average of this many books per day
What is two
300
Roosevelt's famous quote "Speak softly and carry a big stick" referred to this most important branch of the military at the turn of the century
What is the NAVY
300
In 1801 he tried to invade Haiti but yellow fever wiped out his troops (thoroughly discouraged he abandoned his American plans and sold all of France's territory to Thomas Jefferson)
Who is Napolean
400
When the Canal was first proposed in 1870, Panama was a province of this South American country, its neighbor to the east
What is Colombia
400
One American attempt to build a canal in this neighboring neighbor country to the West in 1889 collapsed with the financial Panic of 1893
What is Nicaragua
400
The U.S. paid how much just for the French maps and surveys: $200,000, $2 million or $20 million
What is $2 million
400
This bean-size organ (located between your 9th and 11th ribs) enlarges when you contract malaria (which, along with yellow fever, killed some 20,000 of the first canal workers under the direction of the French)
What is your SPLEEN
400
He was the first President to leave the country while in office
Who is Teddy Roosevelt (to see the Panama Canal in 1906)
500
"The food available [to the first canal workers] was meager. There was no ice, no fresh milk, rarely a fresh vegetable...Men went for weeks on a diet of canned sardines, canned Danish butter and _____________.
What is crackers
500
The decision to build a canal in Panama rather than Nicaragua (by a vote of 42 to 34 in June 1902) came down to this hot topic, which was Nicaragua's biggest geological disadvantage
What are VOLCANOES!
500
"All great ideas have their [time] of incubation" (like the mosquito!) "It was _____ years after Kitty Hawk that the world [finally] accepted the Wright Brothers' invention." -David McCullough
What is 5
500
If all the material from the Panama Canal were piled into a shaft the size of 1 city block, it would be __________ feet high: 10,000, 100,000, or 1 million
What is 100,000 (19 miles)
500
President _____________ (who succeeded Teddy Roosevelt) was known for "the most infectious chuckle in the history of politics