Boats
Common problems on a sailboat involve unjamming halyards, a nautical term for these.
What are ropes?
An analemma shows points where the Sun is directly overhead throughout the year; it hits this line at 23 1/2 degrees north around June 21.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Iconic small planes from Piper Aircraft include the Cherokee & this one, named for a young animal.
What is the Piper Cub?
First opened in 1900, this subway system has been called the lifeline of Paris.
What is the Metro?
Starring Tom Hanks as a gay man with AIDS, this was the first major studio film to deal with that disease & the stigma it carried.
What is Philadelphia?
When a ship capsizes with the mast pointing straight down, it's said to be doing this as the hull resembles a reptile's shell.
What is turtling?
Cartographers call the size-warping of the Mercator projection map this problem, after an island that looks way too big.
What is the Greenland problem?
Sikorsky developed a rotary wing craft called this in the 1980s, a few years after Luke first flew the same-named starfighter.
What is the X-Wing?
Reaching speeds of up to 200 miles per hour, Japan's shinkansen are better known by this name.
What are bullet trains?
The murder of Army private Barry Winchell helped lead to a review of this 4-word policy regarding gay people in the military.
What is don't ask, don't tell?
Always be careful on this "way", the little bridge used to board & disembark.
What is the gangway?
Dating to 1492, the oldest surviving globe shows why Columbus thought he had a straight shot to Asia; Cipangu is this.
What is Japan?
Generating lift without wings, the NASA M2-F1 "flying bathtub" helped pave the way for this craft that first launched in 1981.
What is the space shuttle?
Tiktoker Francis Bourgeois gained 3 million followers sharing this hobby, also the name of a Danny Boyle film.
What is trainspotting?
In 2023, this country elected Edgars Rinkēvičs as the EU's first openly gay president.
An old nautical punishment involved being "hauled" under this part of the hull.
What is the keel?
Lines of latitude are also called these, from their geometric layout.
What are parallels?
Despite this rhyming nickname, the Hughes aircraft H-4 Hercules flying boat was built almost entirely of birch.
What is the Spruce Goose?
Daily Double
The company relaunching this train describes it as a "dream on wheels"; it first puffed east from Paris in 1883.
The 1969 riots outside this Greenwich Village bar served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement.
What is Stonewall?
The long planks running lengthwise on a boat's side are called these, like a constituent unit of the United Kingdom.
What are wales?
Need to hike around Poison Canyon in Utah? At usgs.gov, you can build your own this type of detailed map with contour lines.
What is a topographical map?
You can tell this maker's planes from its rival Boeing's by the rounder noses & windows as well as the "A" prefix to the model number.
What is Airbus?
In 1851, a contest was held to design a train to traverse the Semmering Pass in these European mountains.
What are the Alps?
Brazil's most populated city, it holds a Guinness World Record for largest Pride parade in the world.
What is Sao Paolo?