Q 01/05

U.S. Route 66 ran west from Chicago to which terminus on the Pacific coast?

A) San Francisco

B) San Diego

C) Santa Monica

D) Long Beach

Answer · why

C) Santa Monica

Santa Monica: the road first ended in downtown Los Angeles and was extended west to the ocean in the mid-1930s.

Q 02/05

Which state did Route 66 cross for only about 13 miles?

A) Texas

B) Kansas

C) Missouri

D) Arizona

Answer · why

B) Kansas

Kansas: the road clipped its southeast corner through Galena, where an old boom truck beside a service station inspired Tow Mater in Cars.

Q 03/05

Which Yankees slugger grew up in Commerce, Oklahoma, on Route 66?

A) Berra

B) Maris

C) Mantle

D) DiMaggio

Answer · why

C) Mantle

Mantle, the 'Commerce Comet': his father, a lead and zinc miner, named him after catcher Mickey Cochrane and trained him from boyhood to switch-hit.

Q 04/05

Before a 1937 realignment, Route 66 looped north through which New Mexico city?

A) Santa Fe

B) Taos

C) Roswell

D) Las Cruces

Answer · why

A) Santa Fe

Santa Fe: until 1937 Route 66 swung north from Santa Rosa through the capital before reaching Albuquerque, and a straight westward cutoff then made th...

Q 05/05

Which Tulsa businessman is known as the 'Father of Route 66'?

A) Frank Phillips

B) Cyrus Avery

C) John M. Page

D) Will Rogers

Answer · why

B) Cyrus Avery

Cyrus Avery, a Tulsa businessman on the 1925 Joint Board on Interstate Highways, steered the Chicago-Los Angeles road through Oklahoma and earned the ...