Get Your Kicks On Route 66

Question: Do you ever plan to motor west? Suggestion: Then take my way. It's the highway that's the best! Answer: Get your kicks -- on Route 66. Do you know it? You've sung it a jillion times, but could you leave Chicago and wind up in L.A.?

Here's everything you need to know about "motoring west". So sit back, relax, put yourself behind the wheel of that '64 Le Mans, think back to that night when you pounded a few Schlitz' and you and that chick watched the submarine races ... what was her name? Oh well, there's that song again ... think I'll head to California ...

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1. "It winds from ____..."
St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago
Indy
L.A.
S.F.
2. "... to ______."
St. Louis
Detroit
Chicago
Indy
L.A.
S.F.
3. "More than _____ miles all the way."
500
1000
2000
3000
4000
4500
4. "Well it winds thru _______."
Joplin
Branson
Cape Girardeau
Springfield
Biloxi
St. Louis
5. "_______ Missouri."
Joplin
Branson
Cape Girardeau
Springfield
Biloxi
St. Louis
6. "___________ is oh so pretty."
Jefferson City
Texas City
Elk City
Midwest City
Oklahoma City
Weatherford
7. "gonna see ________."
Amarillo
Texola
Shamrock
Clinton
Panhandle
Tumcumcari
8. "________ New Mexico."
Clovis
Portales
Taos
Gallup
Clines Corners
Grants
9. "________ Arizona."
Winslow
Flagstaff
Kingman
Show Low
Fort Defiance
Holbrook
10. "Don't forget ________."
Williams
Prescott
Navajo
Sedona
Cottonwood
Winona
11. "_________".
Barstow
Seligman
Kingman
Needles
Ludlow
San Bernadino
12. "_________."
Barstow
Seligman
Kingman
Needles
Ludlow
San Bernadino
13. "__________."
Barstow
Seligman
Kingman
Needles
Ludlow
San Bernadino
14. The route crosses eight states. Which of these is not a Route 66 state.
Kansas
Texas
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Missouri
15. "We're going 66 on Route 66" said one chemical engineer to another while testing a new gasoline in the late 1920's. It led to the name of which petroleum company?
Billups
Humble
Gulf
Phillips 66
Marathon
Buffalo
16. From start to finish, what was the actual mileage of the route?
2448
3623
2623
1994
2291
3066
17. John Steinbeck wrote his famous book "The Grapes of Wrath" about displaced farm workers brought to California via Route 66 because of what event?
The beginning of WW2
The stock market crash
Tornado Alley destruction
The floods of '32
The Dust Bowl
The White Sox Scandle
18. John Steinbeck pinned a name on Route 66 in The "Grapes Of Wrath". What was it?
The Will Rogers Highway
The Long and Winding Road
The Great Diagonal Way
The Mother Road
The Main Street of America
The Homeward Bound Highway
19. The song "Get Your Kicks on Route 66" was written by Jazz musician Bobby Troupe in 1946. Who recorded it first -- it was one of his biggest hits.
Old Blue Eyes
Nat King Cole
Dean Martin
Mel Torme
Bobby Darin
Sammy Davis, Jr.
20. Route 66 was decommissioned (removed from the US Highway System) on June 27, ____.
1955
1965
1975
1985
1995
1971
21. Route 66 crossed which state for the fewest total miles.
Illnois
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
22. Route 66 crossed which state for the most total miles?
Missouri
Arizona
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
California
23. The song "Route 66" was recorded by numerous artists. Which of these did not record a version of it?
Chuck Berry
The Rolling Stones
Manhatten Transfer
Asleep At The Wheel
Pink Floyd
Van Morrison
24. Between 1960 and 1964 CBS ran a show by the name of "Route 66". Starring Martin Milner and George Maharis as two guys seeking adventure along the highway, what was their famous "ride"?
Corvette
Corvair
Mustang
GTO
Merc
Cadilliac Coupe deVille
25. Route 66 was mentioned in many songs. One was this line from what song? "here I am walking up sixty-six/ wish she hadn't done me that way."
Wichita Lineman
Yonder Comes The Man With The U.S. Mail
Is Anybody Going to San Antonio
Born To Be Wild
(Look for) America
We Built This City
26. Which movie, set in a fictional town located on Route 66, was originally to be named "Route 66" but had its name changed to avoid confusion with the TV show?
The Sugarland Express
Cars
Mother, Jugs and Speed
Gone in Sixty Seconds
The Great Race
What Did You Do In The War, Daddy
27. That movie is set in the town of Radiator Springs, which was based largely on which two towns along the route that saw a rapid decline when I-40 opened in the early 1970s?
Galena, KA and Commerce, OK
Tulsa, OK and Chandler, OK
Texola, OK and Shamrock, TX
Fort Defiance, AZ and Window Rock, AZ
Seligman, AZ and Amboy, CA
Victorville, CA and Apple Valley, CA
28. What famous movie character leaves Walley World to get a gun at the real-life western end of Route 66 in Santa Monica?
Cousin Eddie -- National Lampoon's Vacation
Clark Griswold -- National Lampoon's Vacation
Maximus Decimus Meridius -- Gladiator
Dusty -- The Three Amigos
Jerry Lundegaard -- Fargo
The Dude -- The Big Lebowski

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