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ExcursionExam_111008.sPubDate = "11/10/2008 4:56:07 PM GMT";
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ExcursionExam_111008.appDeck = new Array("Bouncing around Beantown and bullet trains are all the rage in this week’s Excursion Exam.","");
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ExcursionExam_111008[1][0] = new Array("Chicago is hoping for an Obama bounce in tourism after the president elect’s victory. If you were hoping to see his neighborhood, you might be surprised to find a security perimeter around his block. What neighborhood are we talking about?");
ExcursionExam_111008[1].answer = "The correct answer is A, Hyde Park.
Perimeter or not, Hyde Park will be a difficult place for the nation’s next president to hide out.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[2][0] = new Array("No doubt about it, Alabama is for the birds. Eagles, yellow-billed cuckoos, gray herons, red-bellied woodpeckers and kingfishers can be seen along the water in Lake Guntersville State Park where 20 chalets sit on a mountain offering views of the huge Guntersville Reservoir? What mountain?");
ExcursionExam_111008[2].answer = "The correct answer is D, Taylor Mountain.
Taylor-made for those birders.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[3][0] = new Array("Delta Air Lines, the world's biggest airline, said it will impose a first-bag fee of how much, becoming the last of the legacy airlines to impose such a fee?");
ExcursionExam_111008[3].answer = "The correct answer is A, $15.
One thing you hoped wouldn’t carry over from the purchase of Northwest.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[4][0] = new Array("Budget airline Ryanair, based in what country, is drawing up plans to offer trans-Atlantic flights as cheap as 10 Euros (before taxes) to several U.S. cities?");
ExcursionExam_111008[4].answer = "The correct answer in B, Ireland.
That's $12.70 in U.S. currency.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[5][0] = new Array("Stone Mountain Park, 20 miles east of the city of Atlanta, was voted the city's best public playground. It features a 1,683-foot-high granite rock carved with images of what?");
ExcursionExam_111008[5].answer = "The correct answer is B, confederate leaders.
Imagine that.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[5][2] = new Array("Confederate leaders",'',1);
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ExcursionExam_111008[6][0] = new Array("When in Boston, the well-trained traveler knows to get around by using the city's public transit, an easy-to-follow color-coded system that is safe and inexpensive -- just $2 per ride, with kids free -- that goes by what one-letter nickname?");
ExcursionExam_111008[6].answer = "The correct answer is D, T.
Anything is better than driving those crazy Boston streets that seem to head everywhere but where you are heading.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[7][0] = new Array("With almost 3,000 wall paintings, what city is known as the world capital of murals?");
ExcursionExam_111008[7].answer = "The correct answer A, Philadelphia.
Good place to hang out.
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[7][2] = new Array("San Diego",'',0);
ExcursionExam_111008[7][3] = new Array("Salt Lake City",'',0);
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ExcursionExam_111008[8][0] = new Array("To help future travelers, what state might sell billions of dollars worth of bonds to get going on an 800-mile system of bullet trains that could zip along at 200 mph?");
ExcursionExam_111008[8].answer = "The correct answer is B, California.
This speeding bullet would make a San Francisco-to-San Diego trip faster than air travel (if, of course, you consider showing up at the airport 90 minutes early and waiting for your luggage.)
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[9][0] = new Array("A baggage worker for what airline got a bit of a fright when she opened a jetliner's cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage?");
ExcursionExam_111008[9].answer = "The correct answer is C, Delta.
Well, what did the baggage worker expect to find?
Read the story.";
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ExcursionExam_111008[10][0] = new Array("Hotel occupancy rates in Hawaii cratered to 63 percent in September with which island having the best luck at trapping tourists?");
ExcursionExam_111008[10].answer = "The correct answer is D, Oahu.
But even at just over 69 percent, that’s nothing to write home about.
Read the story.";
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