CHOO CHOO all aboard the train to Know Shit! Issue Eight! In honour of the train issue, I’ve been training relentlessly in the art of kung foo and jiu jitsu. I am now considered a master beige belt (the secret belt after black). Unfortunately this is a literary medium so you’ll just have to take my word for it. HYAH! SMACK! CRUNCH! POP! And now for my legendary final move, no one has seen this before and lived to tell the tale. HUAAAHH YA! Ok now that you’ve been well and truly thrilled by my demonstration of combat mastery, sit back and enjoy the quiz.
Quiz Answers
Busan.
Sir Rod Stewart. He’s a big train nerd. Read more about it here.
False. Despite the name, they can’t actually reach the velocity of a speeding bullet. They were named so because of the bullet shape of their noses.
Blue, Red, Green, Yellow and Black.
B. Her second husband Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan. They met at an archaeological dig site where he worked and were married for 46 years.
The Boys.
C. The Girl on the Train.
KING KONG.
B. Purposely causing a head-on collision between two trains.
In an event known as the “Crash at Crush”, two locomotives were crashed into each other in front of 40,000 spectators. Despite being unmanned, the collision killed two bystanders and injured many more.
Moscow and Pyongyang.