Roller Coaster Types
This type of roller coaster is known for its spider web-like supports, of which it needs many to be structurally stable.
What is a wooden roller coaster?
This theme park, located in Colorado, had a haunted ride in which someone died.
What is Glenwood Caverns?
This theme park chain is well known for a small rodent mascot.
What is Disney?
The full name of our club, abbreviated as TPED.
What is Theme Park Engineering and Design?
This year was when the aptly named Millennium Force opened, the first roller coaster to be taller than 300ft.
What is the year 2000?
This type of roller coaster is known for being very smooth (when manufactured correctly) as the parts can be precisely machined.
What is a steel roller coaster?
This park had a water slide famous for two things: being the tallest in the world and for decapitating a small child.
What is Schlitterbahn?
This theme park chain recently opened a park in Orlando with a How to Train Your Dragon-themed ride.
What is Universal?
What year did TPED start at CU?
What is the year 2025?
This year was when Disneyland first opened.
What is the year 1955?
This type of roller coaster places riders beneath the track instead of on top of it.
What is an inverted roller coaster?
This (now defunct) park is known for having a terribly designed looping water slide.
What is Action Park?
What is Cedar Fair?
The full name of the competition we compete in in the Spring, with the prompt dropping in two weeks.
What is the Ride Engineering Competition?
This year was when Universal Studios opened.
What is the year 1964?
This type of roller coaster never makes a complete circuit, just sending riders to one place and then back again.
What is a shuttle coaster?
This rather run down theme park, located in Colorado, has a wooden roller coaster that hasn't run since 2022.
What is Lakeside Amusement Park?
This theme park chain, started in Texas, has many rides themed around DC superheroes.
What is Six Flags?
The two days of the week that TPED holds meetings every week.
What are Monday and Thursday?
This year was when Magnum XL 2000, the first roller coaster that eclipsed 200ft, was built.
What is the year 1989?
This type of roller coaster, popularized by Rocky Mountain Construction, uses both metal and wood to create a unique ride experience.
What is a hybrid coaster?
This park, located in Canada, has a long history of animal abuse and is now facing bankruptcy.
What is Marineland?
This small chain was where Fabio (in)famously took out a goose with his face.
What is Busch Gardens?
The six members of the TPED board, responsible for planning... well everything.
This year was when Batman: The Ride, the first inverted roller coaster opened.
What is the year 1992?