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These are the real-train related questions from the February 6th program. The category is "Train Routes" for Double Jeopardy.

$400 - Moving at a glacial pace this country's Glacier Express from Zermatt to St. Moritz is called the worlds slowest express.

$800 - For decades this famous Paris-Istanbul train route passed through the Simplon Tunnel in the Alps.

$1200 - The Rocky Mountaineer offers routes from Vancouver B.C. to Jasper or Banff in this neighboring Province.

$1600 - (Ran out of time before this question could be asked)

$2000 - The Trans-Siberian railroad takes about a week to get from Moscow to this large city on Russia's Pacific coast.

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I was watching that show with my wife next to me.  I HAD to answer correctly - or be demoted to spending the night under the train layout.

I saved myself.  4/4 on answers.  Quite disappointed that Q5 wasn't shown.

I have spent time on Russian trains (no longer doing that!) - "Vladivostok" was not difficult.  If I remember, the Siberian Express is really about nine days from the Pacific to Moscow.

FWIW...the United Kingdom has an "established" official government supported church, the Church of England - also called the Anglican Church. (It's called the Episcopal Church in the US.) In the 19th century, a movement began to remove that status, to "disestablish" the church's state sponsorship. People who were anti-disestablishment, and wanted to keep things as they were, were "anti-disestablishmentarians" and their movement was sometimes called "antidisestablishmentarianism".

BTW when our US constitution says "Congress shall pass no law concerning an establishment of religion", it's using establishment in that same sense. It means the US can't have an official government sponsored state religion.

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