Right! That Way! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Interstate 84

Just to confuse things more for tourists, there are two I-84s. There is this one, running from Portland to Echo, Utah (which is just outside Salt Lake City), and the Eastern I-84, which stretches from Scranton, Pennsylvania to Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

The western highway is over 500 miles longer, and passes through cities like Boise, Idaho, and Ogden, Utah. There is one auxiliary road, I-184, which is a 3.5 mile spur of the main road in Boise.

Answer: Las Vegas

I-15 is almost 1,500 miles (2,300 km) from the quiet Canada/US border in Sweetgrass, Montana, to the hustle-and-bustle of Southern California, as I-15 terminates in San Diego. South of Salt Lake City, I-15 runs through Provo, Utah, and intersects with Interstate 70 before entering Las Vegas. Past Vegas, the interstates passes through the Mojave Desert, and the outskirts of metropolitan Los Angeles before arriving in San Diego.

Answer: Interstate 25

Heading north-south from New Mexico to Wyoming, Interstate 25 passes through the state capitals of the three states it stretches across, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Measuring in at just over 1,000 miles, the Interstate also passes through Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and (everyone's favourite trivia question) Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

Answer: Interstate 35

Interstate 35 parts in two just north and south of the Dallas metro area, in Denton (to the north), and Hillsboro (to the south). 35E, which crosses through Dallas, is the longer of the two, at 97 miles (156 km), while 35W, which passes through Fort Worth is only 85 miles (137 km). The I-35 series of exit numbers continue along 35E, as 35W has its own set of exit numbers, starting at 1.

As for I-35 itself, the highway starts at the US-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, and continues 1,600 miles (2,500 km)north to Duluth, Minnesota.

Answer: No

I-20 is a 1,500 mile interstate running from West Texas to South Carolina. The Intestate travels through large Southern cities like Dallas, Fort Worth, Birmingham, and Atlanta, but does not travel to Florida. The highway goes through northern Louisiana and central Mississippi,before turning northeast towards Atlanta through Alabama and into Georgia.

Interstate 20 intersects seven of the primary north-south Interstates (like I-95, I-75, and I-35).

Answer: Interstate 65

Interstate 65 would take me from the 190 miles from I-20 in Birmingham, Alabama up to Nashville, and then beyond all the way to Chicago. At nearly 900 miles, the highway also would take me to Indianapolis, Louisville, or south to Mobile, the southern terminus of I-65.

Answer: Interstate 81

I-81 has its southern terminus at I-40 near Knoxville, Tennessee, and runs 850 miles (1,375 km) northeast to the Canada/US border near Kingston, Ontario and Watertown, New York. The highway is the third longest Interstate not ending in 0 or 5 (those numbers usually signify a cross-country Interstate).

The route is set along the Appalachain Mountains. The route also marks routes used by soliders in the US Civil War.

Answer: Interstate 90

A whole slew of freeways, only a handful of them interstates, criss-cross the boroughs of New York City, and Newark, New Jersey. I-90 is the longest US interstate, stretching from Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts, but does not go near NYC, instead hugging the Great Lakes through New York State. I-78 and I-80 both enter from the west, I-78 from central Pennsylvania, I-80 from San Francisco. Both end in the New York Area. I-87 also has its southern terminus in New York, coming down through eastern New York State. I-95 goes through New York, on its way to Maine in the north, Florida in the south.

Answer: Auxiliary Highways

Three-digit auxiliary lane interstates were built to reach the suburbs of each city an interstate passes through. Each auxiliary interstate`s last two numbers are the name of its primary highway. In New York City, just to confuse things further, some auxiliary highways do not intersect with their primary Interstate. I-78 was originally planned to be extended on to Long Island, but that never came to fruition. But, the plans for I-278, I-478, I-678, and I-878 had already started when the cancellation was made.

They still exist today. Interstate 495 also does not intersect I-95 directly, but does make contact through I-295.

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower

Republican president Dwight Eisenhower's plan to connect US cities by a Interstate system was published in 1955. Eisenhower got the idea while travelling across the country in 1919 on an Army convoy. The Federal Aid Highway Act, passed in 1956 "paved the way" for the Interstate creation.

The title of first Interstate is debated, as the first contracts for the highways were signed in Missouri, but Kansas claims that they started paving first. Nebraska was the first to complete its requirements. Eisenhower's original plan was completed in 1992, as I-70 was finished in Colorado.