Amusement Park Rides by AlexanderD

Champion(s):

GhostsDaddy


Runner(s)-Up:

minarik15


Quiz Description

The weather's warming up, and fun parks all over the country are getting ready for the summer ahead. So if you're a park aficionado, break out your lifetime ACE memberships (that's American Coaster Enthusiasts) and answer these questions about 12 parks and the rides you may ride two or three times therein.

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9 FrostL 230 46 00
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11 SteveWilliams 140 34 00
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Questions:

A pair of interlocking vertical loops is the hallmark of what oldest continuously-operating coaster in Busch Gardens Williamsburg? It was named an ACE Roller Coaster Landmark in 2003 on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

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Loch Ness Monster

If you want to ride roller coasters, your best bet is Cedar Point, which has 16 of them, with the 17th, the Valravn, due to open this year. In what American city (city and state, please) will you find Cedar Point?

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Sandusky, Ohio

Six Six Flags parks currently operate roller coasters branded as "Batman: The Ride". The original - which is themed to the original 1989 film & which opened a few months before the 1992 sequel - was awarded the ACE Roller Coaster Landmark award in 2005. At what Six Flags park will you find the original "Batman"?

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Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, IL)

Tipping the scales at a whopping 456 feet above the ground, what Six Flags Great Adventure roller coaster currently holds the records for the world's tallest steel coaster and world's longest steel coaster drop?

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Kingda Ka

The Fury 325 is one of the tallest, fastest, and newest giga coasters in the country. Themed because the region where it is located is "a hornet's nest of rebellion", it can be found at what park which straddles the North Carolina/South Carolina border?

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Carowinds

Fury 325 surpassed Steel Dragon 2000 for the record for the world's tallest giga-coaster (a coaster measuring between 300 and 400 feet in height). Still the longest in the world, it is located at Nagashima Spa Land in what country?

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Japan

The world's oldest roller coaster (114 years) is currently located at Lakemont Park in Altoona, PA. It was closed briefly in the 1990s for restoration, but otherwise, it still operates to this day. What is it called?

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Leap-the-Dips

Astroland Park had been operating the legendary Coney Island Cyclone (with help from New York City) from its inception in 1927 to its closure in 2008. The city continued to operate it until what park (built on Astroland's plot and named for one of Coney Island's first theme parks) assumed operation in 2011?

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Luna Park

Originally subtitled "The Escape", Six Flags Magic Mountain's Superman coaster now bears what subtitle?

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Escape from Krypton

Rebel Yell at Kings Dominion took its design from a coaster at a sister park in Kings Island. Name the coaster - an ACE Coaster Landmark in 1972 - and you name the type of coaster they both are.

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The Racer

A 1924 coaster (rebuilt in 1968) at Kennywood and a 1939 coaster (relocated in 1941) at Six Flags New England share what name?

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Thunderbolt

The fastest coaster in the world, the Formula Rossa, can be found at Ferrari World in what Mideastern city?

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates