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1. "Excuse me, sir, but can you direct me as to which way is out?" I ask a man nearby. "Sure," he says, "go down the hallway until you reach the moai statue, and take a left."
I thank the man kindly, but as I'm going down the hallway, I'm struck with the realization that I don't know what a moai is. I know it is a statue, but what kind of statue, exactly?
2. Once I turn left, I still see no exit. I ask a tour guide how to get out of the museum. He tells me to keep walking until I reach a scale model of Uluru, and take the stairs curving around it.
Great, that didn't help at all. Maybe I can ask someone what Uluru is.
3. Again, I find myself near no exit. I ask an elderly woman with a nice French accent, and in her best English she tells me to go straight until I see the "Le Bleu de France". She says it is a diamond, but I don't know which diamond. It's in the diamond room, and it could be any one of these gems! Which diamond was once known as the Le Bleu de France?
4. Somehow I find my way into the marine display in the museum. I see someone who looks like a marine biologist, so I ask them which way is out. She simply tells me, "There is a door right under Phoenix. Go through the door and you'll soon be out."
I'm sure she doesn't mean Arizona. In fact, she means the giant 45-foot replica of a female whale, hanging from the ceiling. What kind of whale is Phoenix, who famously hangs in the Smithsonian?
5. A tour guide tells me that to get out of the museum, I must first get to the ground floor. I ask which way the elevators are, and he tells me they are down the hall and to the right. The main elevator is in a scale-model replica of "La dame de fer", which he tells me means "Iron Woman". What famous structure is nicknamed the Iron Woman?
6. I find myself in a hallway designed to look like a gorge. Below the glass floor, there is a small flow of water, which is meant to be the Colorado River. A nice young lady tells me that I've found my way into the Ongtupqa Hall, and the exit should be near the end of the valley-hall.
Which famous gorge is known as Ongtupqa in the Hopi language?
7. I find my way to a room with a desert theme. It shows the landscape, plants, and animals that you might see while in this particular desert. The sign says the room is simply called "The Greatest Desert", so I don't know which desert it is. But someone tells me the exit is on the left path in this room, so that's where I head.
Which of the world's deserts is called the "Greatest Hot Desert"?
8. I talk to a security guard patrolling the museum next. He tells me the exit is through the Mountain Room, with the display of all of the world's highest peaks. He tells me the exit is to the right of Savage Mountain.
Great, there are doors everywhere, and not a single mountain is named Savage Mountain. I see someone reading the plates for each mountain, and ask where the mountain is. They tell me that Savage Mountain is another name for what?
9. I decide to ask a nice lady for directions on how to get out. She tells me that the bathrooms are in the Flavian Amphitheater in the Forum Gift Shop.
She obviously didn't hear me correctly, though I could use the restroom before I go. What structure should I be looking for to find the Forum Gift Shop?
10. I finally see the exit, and I head for it. The door is inside a replica of the jaw of some sort of shark-like creature. It resembles a huge great white shark, in a way.
I know it better by the initial C, but the guard tells me to step through the Carcharocles what?
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