Exploring the World of Bridges: Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Coleman Bridge in Singapore was the second bridge built across the Singapore River, and the first built in masonry.

the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh, has a length of 96 kilometres, passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges.

it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge, which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow.

the Moika River in St Petersburg was originally spanned by four bridges only: the Blue, the Green, the Yellow, and the Red.

the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008.

when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States.

upon completion in 1151, Anping Bridge in present-day Fujian was the longest bridge in China till 1905.

in 1977, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns.

for over a thousand years Trajan's bridge was the longest bridge ever built.

Carrollton Viaduct in Baltimore, Maryland is the world's oldest railway bridge still in use, and that its cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1828.

bridge scour is the most common cause of highway bridge failure (example pictured) in the United States.

Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority.

Hubert Shirley-Smith wrote the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on bridges.

Wisconsin Highway 131 crosses nine bridges in 7.3 miles (11.7 km) between the communities of Rockton and Ontario.

Rush Street, now known for its nightlife, has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago's north-south traffic.

Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (remnants pictured) was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003.

Exploring the World of Bridges: Quiz

1 ________ and mortar bridges were built after the Roman era, as the technology for cement was lost then later rediscovered.

2 Bridges may be classified by how the forces of tension, compression, ________, torsion and shear are distributed through their structure.

3 The Oresund Bridge between ________ and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.

5 What does the following picture show? A log bridge in the French Alps near Vallorcine. A bridge taxonomy showing evolutionary relationships Bamboo bridge in Java, Indonesia (ca.1910-40) Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century BC.[1]

8 Like suspension bridges, ________ are held up by cables.

9 In railway parlance, an ________ is a bridge crossing over the course of the railway.

10 Some bridges carry special installations such as the tower of Nový Most bridge in ________ which carries a restaurant.

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