In a trivia contest, sometimes it helps to be a roadgeek

[huskeroadgeek]

I participated in a trivia contest tonight that had a good roadgeek question(pretty easy for anybody on here). The question was what 8 states US 66 traveled through. As soon as the question was asked, everybody on my team(all family members) immediately looked to me for the answer. A previous contest had another good roadgeek question-what are the 3 interstates that run coast-to-coast(or nearly so) and a bonus was earned if you listed them in order of length(which we did correctly). Anybody else ever get any roadgeek questions in any trivia contest or game?

[mgk920]

Many years ago (late 1970s), a high-end contest here in Appleton in which I was a participant asked the question "What are the six interstate highways in Wisconsin?"  (A - 43, 90, 94, 535, 794 and 894)  Very few teams, other than the one that I was on, answered it correctly as apparently, almost nobody else knew of that little spur route (I-535) that pokes into Superior.  (Note, this was before I-39 was commissioned in the state.)



Mike

[CenVlyDave]

I remember when I played Sattergories growing up at church youth events that one list had "Street Names" as a cattergory.  I would always go for a main road at least 40 miles away and normally had the most unique answer that way.

[agentsteel53]

what are the 3 interstates that run coast-to-coast(or nearly so)

depends on your definition of "nearly".  I-30 almost makes it.

[kphoger]

In fact, I'd say I-10 in California is the only one that comes close to actually ending at the waterfront.

You could say I-90 does pass under the ocean it on its way to Logan International, but it doesn't touch the Pacific.
I-80 crosses S.F. Bay, which you could say is the Pacific Ocean, but doesn't touch the Atlantic.

[bulldog1979]

Our local radio station has "What's U.P.? Trivia" with Upper Peninsula-related questions daily in the late afternoon. One day it was, "US 41 starts in Copper Harbor. Where does it end?" While I was driving to the UP for Christmas last year, the question was on M-28 and the Seney Stretch. If I had cell reception at the time, I would have called in from said infamous section of highway.

[kurumi]

TIL US 66 went through Kansas (I-44 does not).

[huskeroadgeek]

In fact, I'd say I-10 in California is the only one that comes close to actually ending at the waterfront.

You could say I-90 does pass under the ocean it on its way to Logan International, but it doesn't touch the Pacific.
I-80 crosses S.F. Bay, which you could say is the Pacific Ocean, but doesn't touch the Atlantic.

I don't remember exactly how the question was worded, but it was pretty clear to me that the answer called for I-90, I-80, and I-10. The only other one that even comes close is I-40, but it stops well short of the Pacific Coast at Barstow.

[realjd]

I don't remember exactly how the question was worded, but it was pretty clear to me that the answer called for I-90, I-80, and I-10. The only other one that even comes close is I-40, but it stops well short of the Pacific Coast at Barstow.

You forgot I-4. It runs from Daytona on the east coast to Tampa on the west coast.