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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.

  1. What eight cars were named after United States presidents?
  2. What car borrowed the name of an American flower?
  3. List five cars that were named after animals.
  4. Eight cars, all defunct today, once had the names of states. What were they?
  5. What three cars had the names of pictures on playing cards?
  6. What car had the same name as a garden shrub?
  7. What car borrowed the name of a heavy firearm?
  8. What car had the name of a chirping insect?
  9. What two cars had the names of birds?
  10. What car had the name of a Victorian synonym for couch?
  11. What car had the name of an imaginary reptile?
  12. The car did not have fins, but it was named after a water creature. What was it?
  13. What car had the name (slightly misspelled) of a man who clips hedges?
  14. What two cars were named after breeds of dogs?
  15. What two cars were named after United States generals, both of whom became presidents?
  16. What car had the name of a very long race?
  17. An English statesman and an Australian city had a car named after them. What was it?
  18. What car had the name of the winner of the Battle of Austerlitz:
  19. What car had the name of an American aviator and auto racer?
  20. What car was named after the title given 96 of our elected representatives?
  21. What car had the name of a famous Dutch painter and a type of beard?
  22. What car had the name of a bed on wheels (and tracks)?
  23. What three cars had the names of famous universities?
  24. What car name was a synonym for windstorm?
  25. What four cars had names that were the same as state nicknames?
  26. What car was named after the head of an Indian tribe?
  27. What car had the name of a tree about which Robert Frost wrote a poem?
  28. What car had the name of a breed of small chickens?
  29. What nationally famous St. Louis brewing company once built an automobile bearing its name?
  30. What car was know as "Old Porcupine" and why?
  31. What early and prominent make of steam automobile was designed and manufactured by twin brothers?
  32. What make of car won the first Indianapolis 500 mile race?
  33. What car has the same name as a rock famous in American history?
  34. When was the first Model A Ford car built?
  35. What car was named after an Indian tribe in New York State?
  36. What car had the name of the southernmost of the Great Lakes?
  37. What car had the name of a famous detective in fiction?
  38. What car had the name of a term of endearment?
  39. What car had the name of a waterfall many people have seen on their honeymoon?
  40. What car had the name of a kind of cracker?
  41. What car had the name of a large American steel town and also a famous town in Palestine?
  42. What car had the same name as a famous newspaper editor who ran for the presidency of the United States in 1872?
  43. What car had the name of a New England poet and essayist, one of the Transcendentalists?
  44. What cars had the names of two of our best-known wartime Secretaries of the Navy?
  45. What car had the name of the second largest city in Pennsylvania?
  46. What car had the same name as a best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas?
  47. 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.)
  48. What was the first name of the General Motors building in Detroit?

 

 

ANSWER SHEET

From the Calgary Foothills Model T Club
  1. Washington, Monroe, Lincoln, Grant, Jackson, Johnson, Harding, Roosevelt
  2. American Beauty
  3. Badger, Panther, Buffalo, Colt, Lion, Mustang, Jaguar
  4. Ohio, Indiana, California, Texas, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois
  5. King, queen, Jacks
  6. Bush
  7. Cannon
  8. Cricket
  9. Crow, Eagle
  10. Davenport
  11. Dragon
  12. Fish
  13. Gardner
  14. Greyhound, Whippet
  15. Grand, Washington
  16. Marathon
  17. Melbourne
  18. Napoleon
  19. Rickenbacker
  20. Senator
  21. Van Dyke
  22. Pullman
  23. Harvard, Columbia, Oxford
  24. Gale
  25. Keystone, Empire, Bay State, Lone Star
  26. Chief
  27. Birch
  28. Bantam
  29. Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis in 1905
  30. The Waterless Knox, because it had hundreds of small projections extending from the cylinder casing to radiate the heat (it was air-cooled)
  31. Stanley Steamer by the Stanley twins
  32. Marmon
  33. Plymouth
  34. 1903
  35. Iroquois
  36. Michigan
  37. Holmes (air-cooled)
  38. Darling
  39. Niagara
  40. Graham
  41. Bethlehem
  42. Greeley
  43. Emerson
  44. Daniels and Knox
  45. Pittsburgh
  46. The Robe
  47. Dodo
  48. 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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