Holidays
This holiday is celebrated on December 31.
What is New Year's Eve?
This type of mass transportation travels along steel tracks on the ground.
What is a train?
This ocean lies to the east of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
You hit this percussion instrument with hands or sticks to make a sound.
What is a drum?
This city is the national (federal) capital of the United States.
What is Washington DC?
This holiday is always on December 25.
What is Christmas?
You need to buy one of these in order to take the train.
What is a ticket?
This ocean lies to the west of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
You blow into this wind instrument to make a high pitched sound.
What is a flute?
This city is the state capital of Connecticut.
What is Hartford, CT?
This holiday, celebrated on the last Tuesday before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, is a particularly big deal in New Orleans, Louisiana.
What is Mardi Gras?
You make one of these if your train doesn't go all the way to your destinations: you take your first train to a station, get off, go to a different track, and get onto a second train.
What is a connection? or
What is a transfer?
The largest hydroelectric power plant in the eastern half of the US is at these waterfalls.
What is Niagara Falls?
You pull a bow across the strings of this instrument to make sound, either one note or a chord.
What is a violin /
viola / cello?
This city is the capital of Peru.
What is Lima?
This US holiday commemorates when the original 13 colonies declared independence from Great Britain (United Kingdom).
What is the 4th of July?
This company runs the regular ("commuter") train from Norwalk to New York.
What is Metro North?
Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario
What are the Great Lakes (between the US and Canada)
Carlos Santana plays this instrument.
What is a guitar?
This city is the state capital of New York.
What is Albany?
This US holiday commemorates the first harvest of the Puritan settlers in Plimoth Massachusetts.
What is Thanksgiving?
This company runs the long haul train line from Boston, through Norwalk and New York, all the way to Washington DC.
What is Amtrak?
This is the longest river in the United States.
What is the Missouri River?
This wind instrument is traditional in Scotland. You squeeze bags of air through pipes to make two notes at the same time. It is VERY LOUD.
What are bagpipes?
This city is the capital of Belarus.
What is Minsk?