Classic Automobiles
In 1913 this model from Ford became the first mass-produced car, reducing assembly time from 12 hours to less than 3 hours.
What is the Model T?
System of exchanging goods or services without using money.
What is barter?
Covered over in the late 19th century, the Bievre runs under Paris before flowing into this river.
What is the Seine?
During this notorious period that began in 1793, the Committee of Public Safety was effectively the govt. of France.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Having these items "on the ground" means soldiers have been deployed to a hostile environment.
What are boots?
The 1964 Pontiac GTO is often called the first of these "brawny" autos.
What is a muscle car?
Tanzania gets part of its name from this island.
What is Zanzibar?
Connecticut's Park River, which flows under the state capitol grounds, was buried in the 1940s by the Army Corps of these.
What are engineers?
The National Convention first met on Sept. 20, 1792 & declared France one of these kingless governments 2 days later.
What is a republic?
Getting in trouble is called "catching" this, a type of anti-aircraft gun.
What is flak?
Everything's "feline" fine for this manufacturer whose E-Type's combination of beauty, high performance, and competitive pricing established the model as an icon of the motoring world.
What is Jaguar?
A decompression chamber can also be called this kind of chamber.
What is a hyperbaric/barometric chamber?
Today buried in tunnels, Moscow's Neglinnaya river fed the moat protecting this fortress.
What is the Kremlin?
A coup on 18 Brumaire established the consulate & brought this general to power.
Who is Napoleon?
Referring to a clock position, if a soldier says he's "got your" this number, he's watching your back.
What is six?
The C2, the second generation of this classic from Chevrolet, was produced from 1963 to 1967.
What is the Corvette?
In reinforced concrete, it's what does the reinforcing.
What is rebar?
West Virginia's Lost River disappears under a ridge in this mountain chain, then emerges as the Cacapon River on the other side.
What are the Appalachian (Blue Ridge) mountains?
The motto of the radical Jacobin Club was "Vivre libre ou mourir", translated as this.
What is "live free or die"?
Meaning a choice to use atomic weapons, it was applied by Trent Lott to a drastic change in Senate rules.
What is a nuclear option?
The late 1960s SEL 300 6.3 model of this car had a limousine V-8 engine in a smaller sedan body, so it could go fast.
What is Mercedes?
You eat the red stalks of this plant; the green leaves are toxic.
What is rhubarb?
This rhyming road synonymous with the British press gets its name from a river that flows under London.
What is Fleet Street?
This influential Jacobin Club figure said "To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
By tradition, you can fool an enemy ship with a fake flag until battle begins--then you have to "show your" these.
What are (true) colors?