U.S. Highways by WareD

Champion(s):

LuskT
Giggity.


Runner(s)-Up:

BlakeSM


Quiz Description

Each answer will be the number designation of a United States Highway. None of them are interstates.

Full Results:

Rank Player Total %ile 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Money Value (% Incorrect): 87 53 53 66 14 44 79 79 61 74 83 96
1 LuskT 513 97 00
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2 BlakeSM 510 93 15
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3 KaufmanK 473 89 15
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4 WeikleB 442 84 00
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5 HightB 377 80 00
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6 GrahamJ 303 76 00
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7 GambinoG 206 71 00
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8 CoenM 195 67 00
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9 EtebariM 191 63 00
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10 RaiaB 188 58 00
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11 HessJa 156 54 00
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12 JeziorskiM 133 50 00
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13 IngramB 112 45 15
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14 RobinJRichards 105 41 00
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15 WoodJ 103 36 00
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16 FryedBetaKappa 97 30 00
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16 MorrisK 97 30 00
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18 PolinskyL 88 21 00
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18 SochackiA 88 21 00
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20 ChrisRosenberg 83 15 00
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21 JordanG 59 10 00
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22 FlaxmanR 29 6 00
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23 econgator 0 2 00
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Questions:

This is the only U.S. Highway to start and end in the same state and also pass through any other state on the way. In fact, it passes through two others, in part following a river named for its endpoints state.

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U.S. 72

This U.S. Highway crosses the oldest bridge in use in the United States as Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia. It crosses the much longer Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel in Virginia.

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U.S. 13

This U.S. Highway is the longest road of any kind in the United States at approximately 3,365 miles. It generally parallels interstate 90.

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U.S. 20

This odd-numbered U.S. Highway is west of where its number order would normally put it, and it parallels at least 5 different interstates (59, 20, 75, 40, and 81) in a generally northeastward jaunt from New Orleans to the Canadian border.

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U.S. 11

Probably the most storied route still in service, this road is also known as El Camino Real in the southern part of its route and follows the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles to Washington State.

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U.S. 101

This U.S. Highway is designated the Great River Road for much of its route, but may be more famous as the "Blues Highway" and the subject of a Bob Dylan album and song "revisiting" it.

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U.S. 61

This U.S. Highway crosses the answer to #6 at "the crossroads" in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul for musical talent. From there it continues south through Hattiesburg to Gulfport.

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U.S. 49

This odd-numbered U.S. highway is, oddly, labeled north-south in Indiana but east-west in Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia. Parts of it are a major controlled-access highway in Southeast Ohio, including near Athens.

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U.S. 33

This U.S. Highway that starts in Wickenburg, Arizona once went directly over the top of Hoover Dam, but the dam is now bypassed by a bridge co-named for Pat Tillman.

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U.S. 93

The western half of this highway forms "The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail," though since the completion of the Cumberland Gap Tunnel it has extended a short distance into Tennessee. Identify this highway that runs along the length of southern Virginia.

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U.S. 58

This longest continuous 3-digit U.S. Highway has endpoints at the International Peace Garden in North Dakota and in Brownsville, Texas.

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U.S. 281

This U.S. Highway's eastern terminus lies at the junction of historic Route 66 and U.S. 40 in suburban Chicago. It is briefly a toll road through Rocky Mountain National Park where it is known as Trail Ridge Road and crosses the continental divide.

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U.S. 36