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Amazing Race:Portland

People & Places

Vocabulary Arts & MusicTransportation

In the early 1880s, settlers traveled in these big, heavy

wagons.

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What is a Conestoga?

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These are the beginning and the ending cites for the first highway which was called the Abraham

Lincoln Highway.

4

What are New Yorkand San Francisco?

5

This baby rides in one of

these.

6

What is a cradleboard?

7

In early Asia, a person might have hailed one of these, in the same way we might hail a taxi

today.

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What is a sedan chair?

9

This is the Japanese name for this “human-powered vehicle”.

10

What is a rickshaw?

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This is the smallest city park in the world, measuring just 24 inches in diameter. And it’s right here in Portland!

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Mill Ends Park in downtown Portland

on Front & Taylor Avenues

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This is where you’ll find64 dragons and 2 bronze lions

in downtown Portland.

15

What is the China Gate, the entrance to Portland’s Chinatown?

16

Name one of the sculptures you saw on the Amazing Race of

downtown Portland.

17

What is Portlandia?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

What is the Elk?

Others?

18

These are written all over the bricks at Pioneer Courthouse

Square.

19

What are peoples’ names?

20

Outside of this downtown building is an

8- story mural of members of the Lewis & Clark expedition.

21

What is the Oregon History

Center?

22

A group of physicians in France started this organization to help

people in war-torn places get medical care.

23

What is Doctors Without Borders?

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Inuit people build these types of traditional snow structures during

hunting season.

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What is an igloo?

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This country was the first to use paper money.

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What is China?

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This is the highest mountain in the world, located in Nepal.

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What is Mount Everest? 29,035 feet high

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This now popular sport is over 1,000 years old, originated in

Japan, and was used for protection.

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What is karate?

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A group of ships, much

like early European explorers may have

traveled by as they searched

for the Northwest Passage.

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What is a fleet?

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A large and destructive ocean wave caused by an underwater

earthquake.

35

What is a tsunami?

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This is the word for an artificial body part, something you might need if you lose an arm or a leg,

for example.

37

What is a prosthesis?(pronouce: prohs-THEE-sis)

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In past times, people may have used goats, shells, beads, animal hides or a basket of wheat in the

way we use ________ today.

39

What is currency (or money)?

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This is the word for a well-planned trip

for a special purpose.

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What is an expedition?

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To exchange your pb&j sandwich for your friend’s bagel with

cream cheese is an example of this activity.

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What is bartering?

I’ll give you two of these for one of those…

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An animal that feeds on other animals.

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What is a predator?

46

Folk, abstract and realistic describe styles of this.

47

What is art?

48

If you and your friends can play a bucket as a drum, a bottle as a

flute, a comb as a harmonica, and other homemade instruments, you might form this type of

musical group.

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What is a jug band?

Here’s the jug!

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This is the art style used to make a flat surface look 3-D, like on the mural outside the Oregon History

Center.

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What is trompe l’oeil, or “fool the eye”?

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