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#7 Week 2

Sigrun Sørumgård
January 09, 2025

In what year was the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive in the Welsh mining town of Merthyr Tydfil debuted?
And who built this locomotive? He was a British mining engineer, inventor and explorer.
What was the nickname for the largest and heaviest steam power locomotives ever developed? They were intended to be named the “Wasatch”.
On September 27, 1825, Locomotion No. 1 became the world's first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line. Which public line?
Who built and drove Locomotion No. 1?
From which city to which other city did the Orient Express go?
How many counties does the worlds longest train journey cover?
The Polar Express (film) came out in what year?
The United States' first transcontinental railroad was built between 1863 and 1869, and was called what when it was opened?
What is the top speed of the Japanese bullet train?

The world's longest station platform is at Hubballi Junction in India at 1,507 metres (4,944 ft). The Appalachian Trail station or Benson station in the United States, at the other extreme, has a platform which is only long enough for a single bench.
The longest route for one train can be made between Moscow and Vladivostok on Trans-Siberian Express railway line that is 9,297 kilometers long!
As of August 2022, the fastest train on Earth, based on its record speed, is the Japanese L0 Series Maglev with a record speed of 603 kilometers per hour.

The more than 7,000 cultivars of apple known today results from a long and complicated history in which multiple wild species were crossed into the fruit's lineage as it travelled from China to Europe along the Silk Road.
Coconut is a fruit that has a liquid inside called coconut milk. It's not to be confused with coconut water, which is the clear liquid found inside a young green coconut.
Watermelon, and many of its fellow melons (cantaloupe, honeydew, etc.), contains 90% water.
Prickly Pear.
China is the largest producer of potatoes in the world.
Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grape varieties in the world.
Carrots. A study published in 2000 by the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows that cooking carrots leads to an increase in beta-carotene.
Strawberries belong to the rose family
Sulfur compounds
Tomatoes are the world’s most popular vegetable. With some 182M tonnes produced globally in 2017, it represents 17% of all vegetables produced, ahead of the next most popular – onions, which come in at 9%.