Answer: Georgia
Since 1973, the "Great American Scream Machine" has been a major attraction at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton. It was designed by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, has a peak elevation of 104 feet and a length of 3800 feet.
Six Flags over Georgia opened in 1967 and was the second park in the Six Flags chain. Mableton is about 15 miles west of Atlanta.
From Quiz: Great Roller Coasters
Answer: Wildfire
Wildfire is a hybrid coaster, meaning it uses a steel track on a wooden support structure - the most common setup for woodies featuring inversions. It stands 56 meters tall and reaches a top speed of 115 kph. The fate of this ride was questioned after just one season when the building permit was found to be flawed and had to be revoked. Ultimately the coaster was allowed to operate again in June 2017.
From Quiz: Citius, Altius, Fortius
Answer: The seats turn on an axis (horizontally)
A truly tumultuous experience, the 4-Dimension Coaster allows riders to test their stomachs and mental states by involuntary repositioning mid-ride. Seats on said coasters can turn on a horizontal axis plunging the rider straight ahead and over themselves in a somersault. This, in addition to the frightening heights, the back flips, and the plummeting drops bode for a truly 'different' trip down the tracks.
The first 4-Dimension coaster opened in 2002 in California. The Six Flags coaster known simply as 'X' took the title as the first ever made. Since, several have appeared in Asian and European amusement parks (mostly in Scandinavia).
From Quiz: A Rush of Blood to the Head
Answer: Kingda Ka
Kingda Ka goes from 0 to 128 miles per hour in 3.5 seconds, and reaches over 450 feet in height. It was named after one of the seven bengal tigers at the park.
From Quiz: Identify the Roller Coaster!
Answer: Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster
The $13M ride was made by Heinrich Mack GmbH & Co. of Germany. The 530m of track take 253 seconds to ride. This is a great dark-coaster with lots of surprises which I won't divulge in case you haven't ridden it, but I can say it has a number of unusual technological devices including a rotating station. It seems higher than the maximum 17m and faster than the 44km/h and those sharp corners are a bit scary.
From Quiz: Australian Roller Coasters Top 10
Answer: Switch Back Railway
The Switch Back Railway appeared at New York's Coney Island in 1884. It was designed by La Marcus Thompson, created for entertainment purposes. The ride was about 600 feet long and stood about 50 feet tall. Riders would pay 5 cents to go on the ride that went 6 MPH over dips and small hills.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: 415 feet
It opened in 1997, and is considered one of the tallest roller coasters!
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Perilous Plunge
This is at Knott's Berry Farm. It is a 75 degree angle.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: New York
Splish-Splash is on Long Island. When building it, the manager tried to incorporate the woods and forests with the water park.
From Quiz: Americans Love Their Parks
Answer: Williamsburg, Virginia
From Quiz: Roller Coaster Designers And Parks
Answer: Six Flags Great Adventure
"The Great American Scream Machine" operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey from 1989 until 2010. At the time it opened in 1989, it was the tallest and fastest looping roller coaster in the world.
The GASM was 173 feet tall, with a vertical drop of 155 feet. It's top speed was 68 miles per hour. The coaster had its last ride on July 18, 2010.
From Quiz: Great Roller Coasters
Answer: Cyclone
Reaching speeds of 85km/h, the Cyclone is a fun steel coaster.
Thunderbolt is the coaster that was at Dreamworld from 1982 to 2003.
Eureka Mine Ride is a dark coaster in mine carts.
From Quiz: Australian Roller Coasters Top 10
Answer: Twister
Coney Island had a coaster called the Twister, whose full track was shrouded like a long covered bridge. Covered coasters never caught on (only a few were built) and the Twister was sadly dismantled.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: 2000
The world's first flying roller coaster!
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: HypersonicXLC
It gets you to 80 MPH in 1 second.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Water Roller Coaster
The MacBlaster, located in Texas, is supposed to be a 'one of a kind' water ride.
From Quiz: Americans Love Their Parks
Answer: Doswell, Virginia
From Quiz: Roller Coaster Designers And Parks
Answer: Kissing Tower Hill
Great Bear is a steel roller coaster at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It is 2800 feet long, has a maximum height of 90 feet and maximum speed of 61 mph. The ride is inverted, so passengers are upside down for much of the trip. The Great Bear opened in May 1998.
The Great Bear is in Kissing Tower Hill, which includes several food areas.
From Quiz: Great Roller Coasters
Answer: Lightning Rod
Like many fast launched coasters, Lightning Rod features theming based on supercars, in this case 1950's hot rod cars. The ride reaches its top speed not directly after the launch as most launched coasters do, but rather after the first hill and drop. It is a terrain-hugging design, making use of the hilly terrain it is built on instead of requiring super-high structures.
From Quiz: Citius, Altius, Fortius
Answer: Boomerang
The Boomerang is located at various amusement parks around the world including Elitch Gardens in Colorado, Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, and Carowinds where it is known as Carolina Cobra. Flashback is another name for the Boomerang but not the original.
From Quiz: Roller Coaster Mania
Answer: Stand-Up Coaster
First opened in 1984 as a coaster at Ohio's "Kings Island" amusement park, "King Cobra" was the first coaster purposely made as a Stand-Up coaster though others in Asian parks were fitted with Stand-Up trains in earlier years. Although "King Cobra" closed down in 2001, it was succeeded by a nearly-identical ride in Canada's "Wonderland" in Toronto, "Sky Rider".
This ride uses its cars as characteristic qualities. Rather than occupying a seat, the rider stands in the harness on the ride and spends the duration of the track standing upright, even through loops and turns.
From Quiz: A Rush of Blood to the Head
Answer: The Beast
Although The Beast only reaches a top speed of approximately 65 miles per hour, the "sequel" to the coaster (Son of Beast) reaches a top speed of about 78 miles per hour. The Beast was originally going to be named "The Champion".
From Quiz: Identify the Roller Coaster!
Answer: Scenic Railway
This coaster was installed in the park in 1912, and there are only nine of its kind left in the world.
From Quiz: Australian Roller Coasters Top 10
Answer: Tornado
Tornado, built by the L.A. Thompson company, was creatd in 1926. For many years there were reports that La Marcus Thompson could be seen working in the ride's ornate tower, though he had died years before his company built the ride.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Batman The Ride
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Club 33
I personally have never been there. It's for the thirty three people that made Disneyland.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Agawam, Massachussetts
From Quiz: Roller Coaster Designers And Parks
Answer: The Netherlands
The Nor'Easter was built by Vekoma, which is based in Vlodrop, Netherlands. The company began by manufacturing mining equipment in the 1950s, but transitioned into entertainment rides in the 1970s. Its first roller coasters were built in Europe, but it soon started work in the United States as well.
The Nor'easter opened in May 1995, and was completely remodelled in 2017. The inverted steel coaster is 2,170 feet long, with a maximum height of 115 feet and drop of 95 feet. It is located at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey, about an hour south of Atlantic City in SE Jersey.
From Quiz: Great Roller Coasters
Answer: Texas Giant
Texas Giant reaches an ultimate height of 143 feet and a maximum speed of 62 miles per hour.
From Quiz: Identify the Roller Coaster!
Answer: Corkscrew
The Corkscrew has a double corkscrew and one standard loop and is still a great coaster ride, even after more than 20 years of service (it was installed in 1982). It's also Sea World's only decent thrill ride for those of us who have graduated from carousels.
From Quiz: Australian Roller Coasters Top 10
Answer: 420 feet
Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point, reaches 420 feet high and achieves speeds of 120 mph.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom
The world's first dueling roller coasters!
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Millenium Force
Millenium Force is the first coaster to use an elevator lift.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Hangtime
From Quiz: Americans Love Their Parks
Answer: Top Thrill Dragster
Top Thrill Dragster held the records for worlds' fastest coaster, world's tallest coaster, world's steepest drop on a roller coaster (tied), and first full circuit coaster to top 400 feet. Kingda Ka exceeded the first two records when it opened up in 2005. Son of the Beast is a wooden coaster located in Ohio. Maverick is another steel coaster at Cedar Point.
From Quiz: Roller Coaster Mania
Answer: Wild Thing
Valleyfair! has a coaster called Wild Thing that was inspired by Magnum XL-200. The steel hypercoaster is 200 feet tall, reaches 74 mph and has a 5,640 foot long track.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Dueling Dragons-Universal Studios Islands of Adventure
This ride opened in 1999. There are some places where the two trains are less than one foot apart!
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: Ghost Rider
This is one of my favorite coasters.
From Quiz: Roller Coasters
Answer: San Antonio
The Great White is an inverted steel roller coaster at Sea World in San Antonio. It is modeled on the "Batman the Ride" coaster but is shorter at 2562 feet. Its peak height is 108 feet and has a drop of 81 feet. The Great White was opened in February 1997.
When it first opened, Seaworld placed a large shark tank near the entrance to the roller coaster, but the sharks were eventually moved to Discovery Point.
Seaworld San Antonio opened as Sea World of Texas in 1988. At 250 acres, it became the largest of the three Sea World parks.
From Quiz: Great Roller Coasters
Answer: Both feature their train cars underneath the track
While both have passenger cars held underneath the actual steel track of the coaster, the 'Inverted' style of coaster car allows for the rider's legs to dangle beneath them and the 'Suspended' coaster keeps legs within a train car. The Inverted coaster is a very popular ride type and has been since the early 1990s upon their debut in theme parks worldwide. The first, "Batman: The Rid" (which was cloned several times in the United States) appeared in Six Flags parks across North America. 'Suspended' coasters are able to swing their train cars due to a bar constructed within the train itself while 'Inverted' coasters do not have the same feature.
From Quiz: A Rush of Blood to the Head
