L1 Tourism Mythbusters/ Corrections

Mythbusters is a television show in the United States that aims to "bust" common myths and urban legends that are commonly accepted using scientific experiments.

Part 1

1. What does the word "bust" mean in the sentence above?

        a. invent                              b. disprove                         c. explode                           d. understand

2. What is the myth that they are trying to bust? (00:25)

3. What were the two parts of talking on the phone that were thought of as dangerous? (00:35)

        a. dialing     b. conversation         c. keeping your eyes on the road             d. answering

4. What is the "key factor" of this myth? (00:50)

        a. it is safe talk at a stoplight      b. talking with a hands-free device is unsafe     

       

        c. texting while driving is unsafe

5. Where are they going to test this myth? (01:02)

6. What is a control lap?  What is their control lap? (01:19)

7. How will the navigate the course the second time? (01:29)

8. How will they navigate the course the third time? (01:40)

9. What speed did the drivers have to reach for the first test? (02:52)

        a. 20 mph            b. 30 mph            c. 40 mph             d. 50 mph

10. What is the last test? (04:15)

        a. speed test      b. brake test      c. parking test   d. accident avoidance test

Part 2

11. What is the first task on the cell phone? (00:24)

       

        a. respond to questions                b .repeat a sentence      c. tell a story      d. answer the phone

12. Did they do well on the tests? (03:10)

13. What did they do to feel drunk faster? (04:35)

                a. drink a lot       b. smoke cigarettes        c. fast (not eat)                 d. not sleep

14. What is the legal blood-alcohol  limit to operate a vehicle in California? (05:00)

       

        a. 1.0                     b. 0.05                   c. 0.3                      d. 0.08

15. How many beers did Adam have to drink? (07:00)

Part 3

16. Did Kari pass the test under the influence of alcohol? (01:45)

17. Did Adam pass the test under the influence of alcohol? (03:00)

18. What was the conclusion of this experiment? (03:53)

January 21, 1976 was an historic day.  On that day, two supersonic Concorde air crafts made their first flights.  One took of from London and the other from Paris.  Later that year, the first Concorde flew to New York.  The flight from London to New York took about three hours.  Other planes took twice the time to make that flight!  The fleet of ’Concords was retired in 2003.  Over the years, the planes had carried more than 2.5 million passengers.

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Do you know where the longest road on Earth can be found?  The Pan-American Highway begins in Alaska.  It passes through Canada, the United States and Mexico.  Then it continues down the west coast of South America all the way to Chile.  Altogether, the highway passes through 12 countries.  It passes through jungles and mountains, the road is about 16,000 miles long.  At this time, only one, 54-mile stretch of the road remains to be completed.

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Are you familiar with the work of Marie Curie?  Born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867, Curie was a chemist and a physicist.  She and her husband Pierre, won the Nobel Prize in 1903 for their discovery of the element radium.  In 1911, Marie became the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. She won the second award for her study of radioactivity.  Marie died in 1934 from cancer caused by her long contact with radiation.