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Question 1: Today, the original John Bull is on static display once more in the Smithsonian's ________ in Washington, D.C. The replica John Bull is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
Smithsonian InstitutionArts and Industries BuildingNational Museum of American HistoryHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Question 2: [2][5] It was dismantled and then shipped across the ________ in crates aboard the Allegheny.
Arctic OceanAtlantic OceanPacific OceanIndian Ocean

Question 3: The ________ was celebrating its centenary that year in its Fair of the Iron Horse in Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore and Ohio RailroadNorfolk and Western RailwayAmtrakWestern Maryland Railway

Question 4: 1933–1934: The Pennsylvania Railroad borrows the John Bull to display it at the ________ Exhibition in Chicago.
Burnham Park (Chicago)Century of ProgressWorld's Columbian ExpositionMeigs Field

Question 5: 1940: A replica of the John Bull, built by engineers at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Juniata Shops in ________, is displayed at the New York World's Fair, and the original is returned to the Smithsonian.
Blair County, PennsylvaniaJohnstown, PennsylvaniaAltoona, PennsylvaniaAllentown, Pennsylvania

Question 6: 1876: The John Bull is displayed at the United States ________ in Philadelphia.
Benjamin FranklinWashington, D.C.Centennial ExpositionPennsylvania

Question 7: The C&A was soon absorbed into the United New Jersey Railroad and Canals Company (1869) which itself was merged into the ________ (PRR) in 1871.
Pennsylvania RailroadCanadian Pacific RailwayAmtrakReading Company

Question 8: It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the ________ operated it in 1981.
National MallWashington, D.C.United States CapitolSmithsonian Institution

Question 9: The John Bull was built in Newcastle, England, by Robert Stephenson and Company for the ________ (C&A), the first railroad built in New Jersey.
Morris and Essex RailroadDelaware, Lackawanna and Western RailroadUnited New Jersey Railroad and Canal CompanyPennsylvania Railroad

Question 10: John Bull is a British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the ________.
CanadaPhilippinesAlaskaUnited States
















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