I will keep a running score.
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1. I’m thinking of a ride. It is now only about the flashtubes and glitterballs.
2. I’m thinking of a ride. This roller coaster could make really hard bacon.
3. I’m thinking of a ride. Nous vous détestons parce que vous n'essayez pas de parler notre langue.
4. I’m thinking of a ride. I am the Key Master.
5. I’m thinking of a ride. Odd that there is no lightning on this hill.
6. I’m thinking of a ride. It is what a blacksmith would give to amuse their own baby boy.
7. I’m thinking of a ride. If only you could use this ride to keep the park from closing.
8. I’m thinking of a ride. It would have been the Apple guys at the top if they had spent the sponsorship money.
9. I’m thinking of a ride. Pizza stops the killing.
10. I’m thinking of a ride. It is America’s longest running stage show.
11. I’m thinking of a ride. It has an element that due to timing issues should be called a “leave me hanging, bro”.
12. I’m thinking of a ride. It sounds like a way to shill energy drinks.
13. I’m thinking of a ride. Goodbye, goes the weasel.
14. I’m thinking of a ride. It is the highest roller coaster in the world.
15. I’m thinking of a ride. It also has PeeWee Herman in it, but not Star Tours. (To clarify, we are talking about Paul Rueben and not the character PeeWee Herman....and I will not accept the Studio Tour as an answer, although it might possibly be true.)
16. I’m thinking of a ride. A new ride where the goal is to get that Steve Irwin guy.
17. I’m thinking of a ride. Little Banded Goshawk.
18. I’m thinking of a ride. Not really Wooden Timber Coaster, but close.
19. I’m thinking of a ride. Wasn’t Hercules here just a moment ago? Apparently he didn’t do a good enough job because one of his monsters is back.
20. I’m thinking of a ride. A ride from a World’s Fair that ear bugged us all for nearly 50 years. Maybe I don’t want to think of that ride.
Correct answers:
Dominick D - 20
Mike Gallagher - 2, 18, 19
......and to think that I thought these were easier than the last batch.....
.....and five of these are not open.
That should help you narrow these down a bit.
Correct answers:
Dominick D - 20
Mike Gallagher - 2, 18, 19
AJ Hummel – 3, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20
Christopher Sturniolo – 5, 6, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Correct answers:
Dominick D - 20
Mike Gallagher - 2, 18, 19
AJ Hummel – 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Christopher Sturniolo – 5, 6, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Matt Babiak – 20
Jim Koehl – 1, 4, 5, 17, 19, 20
Andrew Dougherty – 19, 20
James don't fight with Jeff. He runs this thing.
And I resubmitted #4
8. The HP guys are currently at the top of the ride and spent the sponsorship money.
9. This is a shooter ride outside of Cali-Florida but in the US.
11. This is a newer wooden roller coaster in China designed by a major manufacturer.
12. It is a ride that shares a name with an Energy Drink.
15. Paul Rueben does a character in an animated movie in the Disney library. This movie is pulled out of the mothballs every so often to roam the resorts, but it is associated with a ride. Google it and the answer should be obvious.
Hints on questions that only one person got.
1. This attraction has been guessed about twenty times on the other quizzes, so I decided to use it. Look up flashtubes and glitterballs in Wikipedia and the answer should be obvious.
2. This is a bad joke. Where does bacon come from? Can you find a ride with that in the name?
3. The language is French…..if you use a free internet translator, you will get the phrase that means something along the lines of, “We hate you because you don’t speak our language.” This is for a Cali-Florida ride.
7. The park has already closed. Based on the name of the ride, if it worked, it would be possible to keep it from happening.
10. There are no live actors in this show. The question is related to questions 13 & 20.
14. I want the highest roller coaster, not the tallest. So the answer is not Kingda Ka, although someone answered the High Roller which was a really good answer, but incorrect. Think in terms of altitude. It is a new roller coaster (well, new to them).
Also, Christopher Sturniolo gave a good hint with doing Google searches on these to see if you can find them. The questions were written to defeat that kind of attack, but apparently it works on some of them.
.....I admit it.....
On #8, I thought that HP sponsored Spaceship Earth and the guys working in a garage in California (at the top of the attraction) were the HP guys.....
wrong....wrong....wrong....and wrong....
Bell, AT&T, and now Siemens have sponsored the ride, and never HP......
I should have done a little more research on that one.....
.....Consider that one a bonus for all.....
Correct answers:
Dominick D - 8, 15, 20
Mike Gallagher - 2, 8, 18, 19
AJ Hummel – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Christopher Sturniolo – 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Matt Babiak – 8, 20
Jim Koehl – 1, 4, 5, 8, 17, 19, 20
Andrew Dougherty – 8, 19, 20
AJ only has 1 to go.
Dominick D – 1, 8, 15, 20
Mike Gallagher - 2, 8, 18, 19
AJ Hummel – 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Christopher Sturniolo – 5, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Matt Babiak – 8, 9, 15, 20
Jim Koehl – 1, 4, 5, 8, 17, 19, 20
Andrew Dougherty – 8, 10, 19, 20
AJ, I'm surprised you haven't gotten 1 yet. It's been guessed a million times in the past.
I could always submit a list of everything I can think of with a strobe effect, but that would be somewhat cheap. Wait...I think I just realized what it is. Submitting now...
AJ got it after thinking of cheap rides that have strobe effects!
A perfect score and I think we can crown a winner.
Good job! Thanks for playing.
Keep your eyes pealed for the final round....with pictures.......and I say final round, but it is only the final round if no one plays or gets very excited about it.....if we are having fun, then I say let the fun continue.....
.....oh and give me a little time to post the answers....
I'm thinking this is a just a preview of how well I'm gonna do....
1. Expedition Everest @ Disney’s Animal Kingdom – Flashtubes is another name for strobe lights. Glitterballs are also known as disco balls. Disco Yeti is my name. Can’t we just fix the #%^&#@&# thing already?
2. Steel Hawg @ Indiana Beach – This is a bad joke. Hard bacon from a steel hog.
3. Impressions de France @ Epcot – To translate, it roughly means “We hate you because you don’t try to speak our language,” which is France’s impression of the rest of the world…..and particularly Americans.
4. Gatekeeper @ Cedar Point – This is a line from Ghostbusters. “I am the Key Master.” “I am the Gatekeeper.”
5. Thunder Mountain @ various Disney parks – Where there is thunder, there should be lightning.
6. Iron Rattler @ Six Flags Fiesta Texas – Another bad joke.
7. Time Machine @ Freestyle Music Park – If only it worked, if only….
8. Spaceship Earth @ Epcot – Ok, so I goofed this one up…..
9. Gobbler Getaway @ Holiday World – This is an interesting take on a shooter ride. You aren’t actually shooting, you are calling the turkeys out of their hiding places. After finding all of the turkeys, the farmer decides he is going to save the turkeys and instead have pizza for Thanksgiving.
10. Carousel of Progress @ Disney’s Magic Kingdom – They even say it in the wind up before the show starts…..it must be right.
11. Dauling Dragon @ Happy Valley Wuhan – This roller coaster contains an element called a high five, where one coaster car can high five the other coaster car, but the way they have it timed, they are just leaving the other car hanging.
12. Full Throttle@ Six Flags Magic Mountain – Since roller coasters don’t have throttles, this seems like a sponsorship deal with the energy drink company.
13. America Sings @ Disneyland – Throughout the show the weasel shows up and says “Pop goes the weasel.” The last time he shows up, he says, “Goodbye, goes the weasel.” Since this ride has been gone for a while it seems like a fitting saying.
14. Cliffhanger @ Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park – At only 60 feet high, it is not the tallest, but since it is up in the mountains of Colorado, it makes it the highest in terms of altitude.
15. Nightmare Before Christmas overlay of the Haunted Mansion @ various Disney parks – Paul Ruebens does the voice of Lock.
16. Manta @ SeaWorld San Diego – It was actually a sting ray that got the Croc Hunter and not a manta ray, but I don’t think that stopped anyone from guessing it correctly.
17. SheiKra @ Busch Gardens Tampa Bay – SheiKra is derived from a vertical diving hawk called a shikra, also known as a Little Banded Goshawk.
18. Wodan Timbur Coaster @ Europa Park – It looks a lot like Wooden Timber Coaster, but it actually means "take your clothes off and party" in German.
19. Hydra the Revenge @ Dorney Park – A wooden roller coaster named Hercules used to be where Hydra is now. Hydra is one of the monsters that Hercules killed.
20. It’s A Small World @ various Disney parks – An ear bug is a song that you can’t get out of your head. There is no worse ear bug than It’s A Small World.
Ditto for Full Throttle. And Iron Rattler..although that's a grayer area.
