Tuesday 30 November 2010

The Rail Thing


A fire this weekend at Istambul's Haydarpasa train station, prompted us to adopt a railway theme for today's quiz. The blaze broke out while restoration work was being conducted at the station, which until 1977 had acted as a terminus for the iconic Orient Express.

Trains  & Railways Quiz
1 Who wrote the book 'Murder On The Orient Express'?
2 High speed Bullet trains run in which country?
3 In which city was the first underground train system constructed?
4 The Trans Siberian Railway runs from Moscow to which other Russian city?
5 What is the name of the fictional island on which the Thomas the Tank Engine children's stories are set? 
Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz questions.

Illustrated Characters Quiz Answers
The answers to yesterday's quiz on illustrated characters were:-
1 Snowy.
2 The Roamns.
3 Peanuts.
4 Neil Diamond.
5 The Saharan desert.

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