YOUR AUTO I.Q.From the Calgary
Foothills Model T Club |
Of the 2200 automobiles once made,
only a few remain in our memories, and a mere handful are still manufactured today.
The memory quiz below is essentially for the "old-timers" among us,
those who grew up with the industry and like to be reminded of the early horseless-carriage
days. And for the young uns among us who think the past is worth preserving.
- What eight cars were named after United States
presidents?
- What car borrowed the name
of an American flower?
- List five cars
that were named after animals.
- Eight
cars, all defunct today, once had the names of states. What were they?
- What
three cars had the names of pictures on playing cards?
- What
car had the same name as a garden shrub?
- What
car borrowed the name of a heavy firearm?
- What
car had the name of a chirping insect?
- What
two cars had the names of birds?
- What
car had the name of a Victorian synonym for couch?
- What
car had the name of an imaginary reptile?
- The
car did not have fins, but it was named after a water creature. What was it?
- What
car had the name (slightly misspelled) of a man who clips hedges?
- What
two cars were named after breeds of dogs?
- What
two cars were named after United States generals, both of whom became presidents?
- What
car had the name of a very long race?
- An
English statesman and an Australian city had a car named after them. What was
it?
- What car had the name of the winner
of the Battle of Austerlitz:
- What car
had the name of an American aviator and auto racer?
- What
car was named after the title given 96 of our elected representatives?
- What
car had the name of a famous Dutch painter and a type of beard?
- What
car had the name of a bed on wheels (and tracks)?
- What
three cars had the names of famous universities?
- What
car name was a synonym for windstorm?
- What
four cars had names that were the same as state nicknames?
- What
car was named after the head of an Indian tribe?
- What
car had the name of a tree about which Robert Frost wrote a poem?
- What
car had the name of a breed of small chickens?
- What
nationally famous St. Louis brewing company once built an automobile bearing its
name?
- What car was know as "Old
Porcupine" and why?
- What early
and prominent make of steam automobile was designed and manufactured by twin brothers?
- What
make of car won the first Indianapolis 500 mile race?
- What
car has the same name as a rock famous in American history?
- When
was the first Model A Ford car built?
- What
car was named after an Indian tribe in New York State?
- What
car had the name of the southernmost of the Great Lakes?
- What
car had the name of a famous detective in fiction?
- What
car had the name of a term of endearment?
- What
car had the name of a waterfall many people have seen on their honeymoon?
- What
car had the name of a kind of cracker?
- What
car had the name of a large American steel town and also a famous town in Palestine?
- What
car had the same name as a famous newspaper editor who ran for the presidency
of the United States in 1872?
- What
car had the name of a New England poet and essayist, one of the Transcendentalists?
- What
cars had the names of two of our best-known wartime Secretaries of the Navy?
- What
car had the name of the second largest city in Pennsylvania?
- What
car had the same name as a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas?
- What
car had the name of an extinct bird? (Hint: the word is used today to describe
someone who is not quite right in the head.)
- What
was the first name of the General Motors building in Detroit?
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ANSWER SHEETFrom
the Calgary Foothills Model T Club |
- Washington, Monroe, Lincoln,
Grant, Jackson, Johnson, Harding, Roosevelt
- American
Beauty
- Badger, Panther, Buffalo, Colt,
Lion, Mustang, Jaguar
- Ohio, Indiana,
California, Texas, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
- King,
queen, Jacks
- Bush
- Cannon
- Cricket
- Crow,
Eagle
- Davenport
- Dragon
- Fish
- Gardner
- Greyhound,
Whippet
- Grand, Washington
- Marathon
- Melbourne
- Napoleon
- Rickenbacker
- Senator
- Van
Dyke
- Pullman
- Harvard,
Columbia, Oxford
- Gale
- Keystone,
Empire, Bay State, Lone Star
- Chief
- Birch
- Bantam
- Anheuser-Busch
in St. Louis in 1905
- The Waterless
Knox, because it had hundreds of small projections extending from the cylinder
casing to radiate the heat (it was air-cooled)
- Stanley
Steamer by the Stanley twins
- Marmon
- Plymouth
- 1903
- Iroquois
- Michigan
- Holmes
(air-cooled)
- Darling
- Niagara
- Graham
- Bethlehem
- Greeley
- Emerson
- Daniels
and Knox
- Pittsburgh
- The
Robe
- Dodo
- Durant.
The letter "D" was on many of the doorknobs when Durant lost control
of General Motors while the building was still under construction.
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