Statistics for Panama Canal Zone

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This quiz has been taken 15 times
The average score is 7 of 25

Answer Stats

	Hint	Answer	% Correct
N	Dictator of Panama who took over after Torrijos' death in a plane crash	Noriega	73%
R	President of the U.S. when canal was built	Teddy Roosevelt	64%
B	Largest Canal Zone town; site of canal administrative offices and the public high school	Balboa	55%
H	Large U.S. Air Force base on the Pacific side, active from 1962-1999	Howard AFB	55%
M	Name of first set of locks on Pacific side of canal	Miraflores	55%
Z	Nickname given to Canal Zone residents	zonians	55%
I	Large colorful reptile that sometimes sheltered in Zone residents' trees	iguana	45%
K	Citizens of the San Blas Islands who came into Zone on weekends to sell their beautiful 'molas'	Kuna	45%
Y	Disease that ravaged early canal workers until its cause was determined and eradicated	yellow fever	45%
C	This 8-mile stretch of canal, slicing through the Continental Divide, presented the greatest challenges and danger to the workers during construction.	Culebra Cut	36%
A	Neighborhood adjacent to Panama CIty; site of Gorgas Hospital	Ancon	27%
L	President of Panama who attended Canal Zone College and graduated from a Texas college	Demetrio Lakas	27%
G	Chief engineer of the Panama Canal	Goethals	27%
O	Name of U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989	Operation Just Cause	18%
V	Nocturnal creature frequently seen in Zone- less scary than its name or appearance suggests	vampire bat	18%
W	Citizens from this Caribbean area were brought over to work on canal construction. Their treatment, and the conditions under which they had to travel, work, and live present a very dark chapter in Canal Zone history.	West Indies	18%
J	Song popular with some canal employees during the treaty negotiations: "Take This_________and Shove It"	Job	9%
D	Arguably the most important division of canal maintenance, headquartered in Gamboa	dredging division	0%
E	Town on the canal where many machine shops were located which disappeared virtually overnight when the canal was competed and the area was flooded.	Empire	0%
F	Small but highly venomous snake which Zone residents were warned to avoid	fer-de-lance	0%
P	The only lock chamber with only one "step'	Pedro Miquel	0%
Q	In March, 1975, this enormous cruise ship squeezed through the locks with barely a foot of clearance	QE2	0%
S	Small park/zoo/botanical garden located near Gamboa	Summit Gardens	0%
T	Original name of the Bridge of the Americas that crosses over the Pacific entrance to the canal	Thatcher Ferry Bridge	0%
U	Name of U.S. Navy ship that took two months to travel from the west coast to Cuba to aid in 1898 war, emphasizing the need for a passage between the oceans	U.S.S. Oregon	0%