Question: The last tsar of Russia, Nicholas ll encountered his first elevator at the Hotel Adloin in what city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: This caused a stir in deciding who should enter first and who should do what?
Answer: press the buttons

Question: Andreas Bernard wrote about the social aspects of the new elevators in what book?
Answer: Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator

Question: Modern elevator position or floor indicaters often use what type of bulbs?
Answer: LED

Question: What type of lanterns are used outside elevators as well as inside most cabs?
Answer: direction lanterns

Question: What do floor indicaters often consist of?
Answer: successively illuminated floor indications or LCDs

Question: What generally indicates the arrival of the elevator at a new floor?
Answer: a sound

Question: What is the main function of direction lanterns?
Answer: to help people decide whether or not to get on the elevator

Question: What might change your mind about whether or not to enter an elevator?
Answer: If somebody waiting for the elevator wants to go up, but a car comes first that indicates that it is going down

Question: What type of etching might you see on a direction indicator?
Answer: arrows or shaped like arrows

Question: Some elevators may use the color convention for only what purpose?
Answer: to differentiate between directions

Question: New technologies aim to provide a better elevator experience to passengers who suffer from what?
Answer: claustrophobia, anthropophobia or social anxiety

Question: What Israeli company uses motion sensors to display information on a screen embedded in the wall of the cabs?
Answer: DigiGage

Question: LiftEye uses virtual window technology for what?
Answer: to turn common elevator into panoramic

Question: How does it produce the panoramic effects?
Answer: It creates 3d video panorama using live feed from cameras placed vertically along the facade and synchronizes it with cab movement

Question: Where is the video projected?
Answer: on a wall-sized screens

Question: In what neighboring countries are passenger elevators required to adhere to Standard A17.1?
Answer: most US and Canadian jurisdictions

Question: What is the equivilent to the US Standard A17.1 called in Canada?
Answer: CAN/CSA B44 Safety Standard

Question:  What is Standard A17.1?
Answer: Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators

Question: What are passenger elevators tested with?
Answer: ASME A17.2 Standard

Question: Whose name is on the permit required for operation of an elevator? 
Answer: the building owner

Question: Do all jurisdictions require the permit to be displayed in the elevator?
Answer: some jurisdictions require the permit to be displayed in the elevator cab, other jurisdictions allow for the operating permit to be kept on file elsewhere

Question: Aside from the elevator, where else might a permit be displayed?
Answer: the maintenance office

Question: What type of notice can be displayed in the elevator in lieu of the permit?
Answer: a notice is posted in its place informing riders of where the actual permits are kept.

Question: What country had the second most elevators installed?
Answer: United States

Question: In 2008, what country had the largest number of elevators?
Answer: Spain

Question: How many elevators had China installed since 1949?
Answer: 610,000

Question: What country boasts the worlds largest market for elevators?
Answer: Italy

Question: How many elevators are in Brazil?
Answer: 300,000

Question: What type of elevators are used in the Taipei 101 office tower?
Answer: Double deck elevators

Question: During what hours is the lower deck turned off?
Answer: low-volume hours

Question: During the low volume hours, what can the upper deck function as?
Answer: a single-level elevator stopping at all adjacent floors

Question: On what floor must restaurant customers clear their reservations?
Answer: at the reception counter on the 2nd floor

Question: What levels make up the "sky lobby"?
Answer: 36 and 60, upper-deck car

Question: How fast do the observation deck elevators travel?
Answer: 1,010 metres per minute (61 km/h) in 16 seconds

Question: This speed holds what record?
Answer: world-record certified speed

Question: What does cabin pressure control do? 
Answer: help passengers adapt smoothly to pressure changes

Question: How fast does the elevator drop down?
Answer: 600 meters per minute

Question: At what floor do the doors open on the way down?
Answer: 52nd

Question: What is the name of the elevator attraction at the Disney World parks across the world?
Answer: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Question: What is the main feature of this attraction?
Answer: a simulated free-fall achieved through the use of a high-speed elevator system

Question: Do ride goers stand or sit?
Answer: passengers are seated and secured in their seats rather than standing

Question: What unique feature does this ride provide guests?
Answer: downward acceleration greater than that of normal gravity

Question: What type of motor is used?
Answer: high-speed drive motor

Question: How are passenger cabs separated from the lift?
Answer: mechanically

Question: What type of vehicles are the passenger cabs?
Answer: automated guided vehicles or AGVs

Question: What action do the cabs take before the elevator begins to move?
Answer: move into the vertical motion shaft and lock themselves in

Question: What is special about the doorways of the top floors?
Answer: The doorways of the top few "floors" of the attraction are open to the outdoor environment

Question: What does this allow riders to do at the top?
Answer: look out from the top of the structure

Question: What are the 67th, 69th, and 70th floors of the GE Building at Rockerfeller Center nicknamed?
Answer: "Top of the Rock"

Question: What do these floors serve as?
Answer: observation decks

Question: What type of elevator is featured?
Answer: high-speed glass-top

Question: How long is the short trip?
Answer: about 60 seconds

Question: The special effects include blue light, music playing and what else?
Answer: various animations are also displayed on the ceiling

Question:  The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland in California and the one in Paris, France sharewhat attribute?
Answer: takes place on an elevator

Question: What is the name of area that is really an elevator?
Answer: The "stretching room"

Question: What is included in the elevator's design?
Answer: The elevator has no ceiling and its shaft is decorated to look like walls of a mansion

Question: What is the illusion given by these effects?
Answer: the illusion of the room stretching

Question: What planet is Neptune's near-twin? 
Answer: Uranus

Question: What is Neptune named after?
Answer: Roman god of the sea

Question: How much more dense is Neptune compared to Earth?
Answer: 17 times

Question: What does the astronomical sign of Neptune represent?
Answer: god Neptune's trident

Question: How many Earth years does Neptune orbit the sun? 
Answer: 164.8 years

Question: How was Neptune found? 
Answer: mathematical prediction

Question: When was Neptune first observed? 
Answer: 23 September 1846

Question: Who discovered Neptune? 
Answer: Alexis Bouvard

Question: What is Neptune's largest moon? 
Answer: Triton

Question: What flew by Neptune in 1989? 
Answer: Voyager 2

Question: Which planet is compositionally similar to Neptune? 
Answer: Uranus

Question: What is Neptune's atmosphere primarily composed of? 
Answer: hydrogen and helium

Question: What is the interior of Neptune composed of? 
Answer: ices and rock

Question: What makes Neptune blue? 
Answer: methane

Question: What "ices" makes up Neptune? 
Answer: water, ammonia, and methane

Question: What weather did Voyager 2 observe on Neptune? 
Answer: Great Dark Spot

Question: What weather feature does Neptune have stronger than any other planet? 
Answer: sustained winds