Summer Camp Stories
This is the number of years Renee worked at the camp until the mountain caught fire (the Burro fire of 2017).
What is four?
This state has the best license plate, excluding Alaska
What is ARIZONA BAYBEEEEEE
The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse) originated in this European country
What is France?
This is the word for 1^18 meters
This is the mascot of the camp where Renee worked
What is llama?
What is the approximate average number of cubic feet (basketballs) of water that run through a cross section of the Colorado within the grand canyon?
What is 11,000?
This is what the approximate travel time between Boston and DC would be using a maglev bullet train
This is the number of people Renee has kissed
What is thirteen
This is approximately the largest number of mormons who have been in the summer camp at one time (with the camp's maximum capacity being ~250).
What is 400?
This is the characteristic that makes I-19 from Tucson, Arizona to Nogales, Mexico unique amongst all US highways.
What is having a section marked exclusively in metric?
This is the unique feature first developed by an Italian train manufacturer that would allow modern trains take the sharp curves of outdated track at higher speeds
What is tilting?
This is the word for a poetic line consisting of four feet
What is tetrameter?
This was the age of the scout who came up to me repeatedly and asked if I wanted to hear the confederate national anthem.
What is eleven?
This feature of Phoenix Arizona's road design is meant to help commuting drivers, but it comes at the expense of readable signs or predictable road patterns
What is lanes that reverse direction?
This is the length of track between Mansfeld, Massachusetts and Richmond, Rhode Island on which the Acela reaches its top speed of 150mph
What is 34 miles?
This is the approximate price of an electric car produced in China by BYU, which the Biden administration is seeking to block in an act of plutocratic protectionism
What is $10,000
This is the third line from the following exchange:
Scoutmaster: "Hey [deadname], you got a girlfriend?"
Renee: "No"
Scoutmaster: "____"
What is "At your age, that's just spending money on someone else's wife"
This is the number of consecutive days that Phoenix Arizona had temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in 2024, breaking the previous record of 76 days set in 1993
What is ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN
This is the world's largest megalopolis, home to more than 52 million residents and with a GDP exceeding 5.2 trillion USD. (That's 100,000 USD per capita)
What is the northeast corridor?
This is the word for the intensely hot and incredibly powerful air pocket that forms when a mantis shrimp does its li'l punch. (It clocks in at 200 Newtons)
What is cavitation?