For Quiz: What Do Americans Call Line

[Lucycurlytail]

Hi from Canada. Please: what do Americans call "Line"
Its for a UK quiz

[factor-fiction]

Queue

[Lucycurlytail]

oh I am sorry, new here
It is a seven letter word. I've spent about an hour checking. The quiz wants to know what "line" in UK is called in USA. Thing is, what do they mean by line in the first place :-) I've thought of circuit, railway, ??? Thanks

[factor-fiction]

Railway seems okay to me.
Or is it a tramline?

[factor-fiction]

Sorry tramway.

[factor-fiction]

Sorry, I'm still reading your question the wrong way round.

[Peter Pedant]

Line ? leenay ?

as in " Victoria Line laid by 5000 navvies in seven months "

The victoria line is a rapid transit underground rail system in London I hasten to add, and a navvy is a labourer.

[Psybbo]

Lineage?

[Svejk]

the word line has a hundred meanings in English so its hard to know what they're looking for.

[stewey]

Following on from Svejk, "line" in English can come from the French "ligne" which is a unit of measurement equal to about 1/12 of an inch, and is used in watch-making. But I don't think that the puzzle is going to be that esoteric:)

[Lucycurlytail]

Oh thanks everyone. I agree: what does the quiz mean by "line" in the first place? Not really a fair question is it? (I am in Canada but born in UK) yeah!

[Svejk]

you must know stewey then, lucy.

[stewey]

Lucycurlytail, can you post exactly, in quotation marks, the wording of the question?

[stewey]

Also, is there a theme to the puzzle?

[scorpiojo]

Dynasty?

[Psybbo]

Scorpiojo, that's my line :-)

[scorpiojo]

Oops, sorry Psybbo

[Psybbo]

LOL, scorpiojo I was joking xx

[scorpiojo]

:-D xx

[Lucycurlytail]

oh right, I will try and find out the theme to the quiz
its 100 questions and my sister in law only needs one answer
anyway, takes my mind off looking out at the snow!