A Rush of Blood to the Head Trivia Quiz

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).

Answer: Yes

While some older Diving Machine coasters are at a slightly more acute angle, later models of this style have literally plummeted at a complete right angle allowing for a more frightening drop. The first of its kind, "Oblivion", was unveiled in the UK's Alton Towers park in 1998 though this coaster did not reach the ninety degree angle.
Since its debut, the Diving Machine has become a thrilling drop coaster with inversions to flip riders around, water features, and other enhancements.

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.

Answer: False

While Wild Mouse coasters feature cars small enough for only a few people, they are made for a wide audience, so younger and older riders can enjoy tight bends, steep drops, and fun hills. Carts for these tracks are similar to carts on certain Mine Cart coasters in that only one or two rows of seats are available, and never in a train. Most notably, the Wild Mouse, using one car at a time, is capable of using hairpin turns that can give a switchback effect (like mountain biking side to side on a steep hill. Wild Mouse coasters debuted with wooden tracks in the 1970s, but due to their ability to be build cheaply and small in comparison to other rides, steel versions began appearing in the 1990s.

Answer: A pipeline

The Pipeline Coaster, which is also known as a 'Heartline Twister Coaster', contains a train that rides between two parallel rails allowing for the rider to neither be on top of nor below a track at any given time. While this type of ride never really took off outside Japan, some specimens did pop up around the world.

The original Heartline Twister was successfully developed by the now-defunct coaster constructors at TOGO in the 1980s.

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.

Answer: A person

Named after creator Henry Riehl's daughter, Luna Virginia, the Virginia Reel was created akin to the Side-Friction coaster type in which cars could become airborne as they lacked a second set of wheels to keep the car in place. Said coasters, however, never performed loops or major inversions to twist the rider out of place.

Instead, the Reel contained circular cars in which the rider could freely spin for the duration of the ride. This motion would be created by the natural flow of the track around hairpin turns and wavy bends.

Although Virginia Reel (wooden) tracks have long been out-of-fashion, Wild Mouse variety coasters have updated the Spinning-style car on steel coaster tracks. The last major Virginia Reel closed in the 1980s in Britain.

Answer: Electromagnets

Launch coasters are rides that operate without the grinding chains common on older wooden coasters. Instead, the train cars are propelled up hills using different methods. LIM (or Linear Induction Motor) makes use of high-powered electromagnets to make themselves work.

While this takes up a lot of electricity on big roller coasters (and some of the biggest ones ARE Launch coasters), this type of technology has been around for years on train systems and other rail-based transport. All of the other options are also viable for coasters.

In particular, "Dodonpa", a pneumatic Launch coaster in Japan, was once the fastest in the world.

Answer: 450 feet

To be fair, Stratacoasters can reach a height of up to 499 feet. Anything below 400 feet is regarded as a Gigacoaster while anything under 300 feet is classified as a Megacoaster (or Hypercoaster). With increased popularity of bigger and better coasters, sizes have been growing in the amusement park world.

In 2003, the "Top Thrill Dragster" of Cedar Point became the first properly-designated Stratacoaster but its height (of 420 feet) was beaten two years later by "Kingda Ka", a Six Flags ride in New Jersey which reaches 456 feet and takes riders more than 200km/h out of the launch platform in less than four seconds. Talk about a rush of blood to the head, eh?

Answer: Matterhorn Bobsleds

Ah yes, an obligatory Disney question. Go figure, eh?
The "Matterhorn Bobsleds", while noteworthy for being the first steel roller coaster created, was built as a fixture in Disneyland in Anaheim, California as opposed to Walt Disney World in Florida. "Big Thunder Mountain Railroad" is in Frontierland in Magic Kingdom, "Space Mountain" is a speedy coaster in Tomorrowland of the same park, and "Rock 'n' Roller Coaster" is an Aerosmith-themed coaster (and the newest in this question) found in Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida.