Season 26, Day 9 - "Just Plane Trivia"
It's "Gulf" week, and today's quiz is inspired by the Gulf Stream.
Hey everyone, sorry I’m running behind schedule this week! Sending Day 10 out later tonight, and will try to get the leaderboard updated this weekend.
Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream is a warm Atlantic Ocean current that flows northward up the east coast of the United States. Often said to include the Florida Current (between the Straits of Florida and Cape Hatteras), it meets the Labrador Current at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The Gulf Stream influences the climate of the southern Atlantic coast of the U.S. as well as Northwest Europe, which is said to be warmer than other areas of similar latitude due to the current. It was first discovered and described by Spanish explorer Ponce de León, and later mapped by Benjamin Franklin. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea opens with the line “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” includes the line “from the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,” and Guthrie’s ashes were scattered in the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream is also the namesake of an aircraft company that makes private jets.