Vehicles That Ended up Where They Shouldn't Be
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Q 01What dummy payload from the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight now orbits the Sun, crossing Mars's orbit?
- AA concrete block
- BA Tesla Roadster
- CA replica Wright Flyer
- DA grand piano
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A Tesla Roadster
Elon Musk had promised the risky launch would carry 'the silliest thing we can imagine'; a spacesuited mannequin called Starman rides in the driver's seat, and the car reaches 1.66 astronomical units from the Sun at its farthest.
Q 02One of MIT's most famous student 'hacks' involved placing what vehicle on top of the campus's Great Dome?
- AA police cruiser
- BA yellow school bus
- CA Zamboni
- DA hearse
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A police cruiser
Other Great Dome hacks have included a half-scale Apollo Lunar Module, a full-sized Wright Flyer replica, and turning the dome itself into R2-D2 for the release of Star Wars Episode I.
Q 03In 2021, the container ship Ever Given gained international notoriety for getting stuck and blocking traffic in which crucial global waterway?
- APanama Canal
- BSuez Canal
- CStrait of Malacca
- DEnglish Channel
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Suez Canal
Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, ran aground across the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021 and blocked it for six days. More than 300 vessels were held up at either end, with at least 369 queuing by 28 March.
Q 04What caught an empty Rotterdam metro train that smashed through the buffers at De Akkers station in 2020?
- AA parked lorry
- BA canal barge
- CA whale-tail sculpture
- DA shipping container
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A whale-tail sculpture
The 10-metre reinforced-polyester Walvisstaarten ('whale tails'), designed by architect Maarten Struijs, had stood at the end of the sidings since 2002 and caught the lead car about ten metres above the ground.
Q 05Where did Air Canada Flight 143, the 'Gimli Glider', make its emergency landing after running out of fuel in 1983?
- AA disused racetrack
- BA frozen lake
- CA golf course
- DAn abandoned highway
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A disused racetrack
Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, ran out of fuel after a refuelling error and glided to Gimli Industrial Park Airport, Manitoba - a decommissioned RCAF base part of which had become a motorsports complex. A sports-car race was underway on the strip as the jet touched down.
Q 06In which US city did a bridge collapse under a transit bus and five other vehicles into a park ravine in January 2022?
- ANew York City
- BLos Angeles
- CPittsburgh
- DChicago
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge, which carries Forbes Avenue over a ravine in Frick Park, collapsed at 6:39 a.m. on 28 January 2022 with five vehicles on it, including an articulated Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus. At least 10 people were hurt but none of the injuries were life-threatening.
Q 07Where did the locomotive end up after crashing through the facade of Gare Montparnasse in 1895?
- AA public park
- BA residential courtyard
- CA river
- DA bustling street
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A bustling street
On 22 October 1895 the Granville-Paris Express overran the buffer stop at Gare Montparnasse, crossed the concourse and burst through the station wall. The locomotive fell onto the Place de Rennes below and came to rest standing on its nose.
Q 08In 2013 a runaway Stockholm train with only a cleaner aboard crashed into what?
- AA shopping mall
- BA library
- CA police station
- DAn apartment building
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An apartment building
On 15 January 2013 a four-car Saltsjobanan train left its depot with only a cleaner aboard, passed two stations at 80 km/h and derailed at the Saltsjobaden terminus into a residential building. The cleaner was initially suspected of stealing the train but was cleared of all suspicion on 18 January; investigators blamed serious safety breaches, including disabled safety mechanisms.
Q 09What make of van did Cambridge students hoist onto the Senate House roof on 8 June 1958?
- AMorris Minor
- BAustin Seven
- CReliant Regal
- DFord Popular
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Austin Seven
Gonville & Caius engineering students found a derelict Austin Seven van in Harston, stripped its engine and rear axle, and hauled it onto the Senate House roof with cables and scaffolding from King's College. It took a week to get down.
Q 10Which London landmark began to open beneath Albert Gunter's number 78 bus in 1952, forcing him to jump the gap?
- AWestminster Bridge
- BLondon Bridge
- CBlackfriars Bridge
- DTower Bridge
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Tower Bridge
The south bascule had started to rise with the bus still on it; Gunter cleared the drop onto the north bascule, which had not yet begun to lift.
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