Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Northwest auto trivia

The first automobile to drive through Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascade Mountains of Washington is "an 1898 Fryer-Miller carrying Bert Harrison, Jr. and a passenger." The journey happens in June of which year? Answer here.

From the same website (HistoryLink.org) -- in the transcontinental auto race which started in New York City on June 1, 1909, and ended in Seattle on June 23, 1909, the winners were H.B. Scott and James Smith, the operators of the second car to arrive. Why wasn't the first car across the finish line declared the winner? Answer here.

The first automobile to cross the Lake Washington Floating Bridge (also called the Mercer Island Bridge), drives over in June of which year? Answer here.

Which year did the floating bridge, by now renamed the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, sink? Answer here.

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