PEEK A CHOO-CHOO
GEO, DUDE
ODD-ISH
SLOWPOKE
POKÉMON
400
Maglev for short, more modern trains use these to levitate the train off the ground
What are magnets?
400
Also important to humans, it's the most abundant element in the earth's crust
What is oxygen?
400
Every year in Gloucester, England you can chase down a hill after a wheel of this, the double Gloucester kind
What is cheese?
400
You're delinquent & have been declared this kind of late for school again; one more & it's detention
What is tardy?
400
Pikachu, the most iconic Pokémon character, has shown up as a 50' balloon in this annual U.S. parade
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving day Parade?
800
The first train in the United States went from Baltimore to this midwestern state 
What is Ohio
800
From the Japanese for "harbor wave", this natural disaster killed over 200,000 people in 2004
What is tsunami?
800
The National Zoo in Washington has a lion cam, a naked mole-rat cam and a cam for these "giant" Asian mammals
What are pandas?
800
Swimmers do it fast, but traffic may "slow to" one
What is a crawl?
800
In the franchise's 20th anniversary year in 2016, this in-the-real-world version was released--"Gotta catch 'em all!"
What is Pokémon Go?
1200
This 2022 movie features Brad Pitt on the title locomotive
What is Bullet Train?
1200
Pumice is the only rock that does this in water
What is float?
1200
In 2014 Kiwi songbird Lorde met K.C. slugger George Brett, who inspired this hit song of hers
What is Royals?
1200
Its "pace" tops out at 50 yards per hour for the garden type
What is a snail?
1200
The process of a Pokémon turning into another is known as this, like plants & animals adapting & changing over long periods
What is evolution?
1600
The Pere Marquette 1225, seen here, served as the prototype for the title train in this 2004 film in which Tom Hanks did several voices
What is the Polar Express?
1600
This strike-slip fault that runs through California is named for a lake that's in the rift
What is the San Andreas Fault?
1600
In 1919, a storage container of this sticky brown substance burst, causing many injuries 
What is molasses?
1600
This 3-letter word can refer to your slow pace in a race or to your computer's slow response
What is lag?
1600
Like a person who prepares horses for racing, it's someone who captures Pokémon & readies them for battle
What is a trainer?
2000
DJ's will jump to respond to the name for this device that's spinning the train 
What is a turntable?
2000
This mountain system was formed by the Eurasian & Indian tectonic plates ramming into each other
What are the Himalayas?
2000
The name Papadopoulos means "son of" this person, who in Greek Orthodoxy is sometimes married
What is the priest?
2000
When called by God to lead the Israelites in Exodus, he says, "but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue"
Who is Moses?
2000
What is a rattata?