1. First US carmaker to
mass-produce cars with standardized parts:
2. This model of car had no options, not even the
color. "You can have any color, as long as it is black!" said the
company owner.
3. "Come along with me, ______, In my merry
Oldsmobile."
4. In 1903, two automobile executives raced their own cars; Ransom E. Olds in
his "Pirate" and Alexander Winton in his "Bullet." That
race was held on this beach:
5. In 1908, William C. Durant offered to sell stock in a new venture called
General Motors; then used the cash and stock to buy 4 existing automakers. The
brand name of those first four GM cars:
6. A car was named for this French adventurer who in 1701, founded the city of
Detroit:
7. The fifth car company to be part of General Motors (1911) was named for this
Swiss-born race car driver:
8. Charles Kettering’s invention was one of the most important advancements the
auto industry has ever known. It first appeared on Cadillacs
in 1912. Cars equipped with his invention sold like crazy. His company: Dayton
Engineering Laboratories Co. What was his invention?
9. Following a dispute with stockholders, Ransom E. Olds quit Oldsmobile even
before it was bought by General Motors. He then built cars and trucks under
this brand name:
10. What do the initials A.C. stand for in A.C. Spark Plug,
?
11. This man was a chief engineer for General Motors. He quit, bought the
Maxwell automobile works, and changed the car name to his own:
12. The German automaker Daimler named a car for the daughter of one of his
employees. The girl’s name?
13. Adolph Hitler supervised the engineering of this "peoples’ car"
and personally approved the blueprints before it went into production:
14. The designer of the above car would later use much of the engine and
chassis parts to build a sports car which would bear his name:
15. Which American company designed the Jeep, and who built the Jeep? The
answer surprised me, and it may surprise you, too.
16. What is the origin of the name Jeep?
17. This small, inexpensive car was named for the chairman of Kaiser
Motors:
18. These brothers sold their company to Chrysler in 1928:
19. Ford named a line of cars for the son of Henry Ford I. The
son’s name?
20. This South Bend, Indiana company began as a wagon
builder in 1852, and built cars and trucks from 1901 until 1966.
21. When this GM
president was kicked out of office, he bought the Jeffery car plant in
Wisconsin, changed the car to his name, and merged with Kelvinator
refrigerators: .
22. This president of Ford Motor Company was fired by Henry Ford II. He later
would be named chairman of Chrysler, and rescue it from bankruptcy:
23. Some of America’s most expensive cars in the 1930s were built in Auburn, Indiana,
by the Auburn Company, which built Auburn cars, but also a luxury sports car,
and a stately, huge luxury car. The names of those two cars:
24. Carl Graham Fisher, owner of auto headlamp company Pres-To-Lite,
and partner in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, headed a group which would
build a "Coast-to-coast rock highway." The name of the highway which
would be named for an American President:
25. The first and still the only highway connecting Alaska with the lower 48
states was completed in this year:
26. While most of that Alcan Highway lies in Canada, construction was
supervised by this organization:
27. America’s Interstate Highway System was established by this US president:
28. Once a high-volume mid-priced car, Chrysler dropped it in 1961 following
slumping sales:
29. In the 1930s, General Motors offered this brand of car, priced between
Buick and Cadillac:
30. In the 1950s, this new smaller car was such a success for American Motors, they soon dropped the big Nash and Hudson
cars:
31. At one time it was a big luxurious car. But after it merged with Studebaker
in 1954, sales were so slow it was forced to become a Studebaker clone with
only minor trim changes:
32. The Yellow Coach Company would eventually become this brand of trucks:
33. This brand of vehicle took Abraham Lincoln to Ford Theater the night he was
fatally shot:
34. John F. Kennedy was riding in this brand of vehicle in Dallas when he was
fatally shot:
35. This one-time general manager of Pontiac Division tried to begin a sports
car building enterprise:
36. This car sponsored the TV show, "You bet your life" with Groucho
Marx:
37. This car sponsored Dinah Shore’s TV show:
38. The Beverly Hillbillies’ truck was actually a cut-down car of this
make:
39. The Beach Boys "Little Old Lady From
Pasadena" drove this brand of car:
40. He called the Corvair "Unsafe at any
speed."
1. Oldsmobile
2. Model T Ford
3. Lucille
4. Ormond Beach. (Also give yourself a correct answer if you said Daytona
Beach.)
5. Buick, Cadillac, Oakland (later called Pontiac) and Oldsmobile. Give
yourself credit if you named Pontiac instead of Oakland.
6. Cadillac, or Antoine de la Mothe
Cadillac.
7. Chevrolet, or Louis Chevrolet
8. The electric starter. (His company, Dayton
Engineering Laboratories Co, better known as DELCO, would become part of
General Motors.)
9. R.E.O. (The initials of Ransom E. Olds.)
10. Albert Champion (as in A.C.’s competitor, Champion Spark
Plug!)
11. Chrysler, or Walter P. Chrysler
12. Mercedes
13. Volkswagen.
14. Porsche, or Dr. Ferdinand Porsche.
15. Short answer: The first prototype was built by Bantam Car Company, best
known for their midget cars.
Long answer: But the American military feared that Bantam could not produce
enough of them, so Jeeps were built only by Willys
and by Ford, in equal numbers and using standardized parts. After the war,
production went to Willys; which eventually became
Kaiser-Jeep, which was later acquired by American Motors and then all of that
company taken over by Chrysler.
16. The name came from saying aloud the Army’s name of "G.P.," or
"general purpose" vehicle.
17. The Henry J. car, named for the company founder, Henry J. Kaiser.
18. The Dodge Brothers, or John F. Dodge and Horace E. Dodge.
19. Edsel,
or Edsel Ford.
20. Studebaker.
21. Nash, or Charles Nash.
22. Lee Iacocca.
23. Cord and Duesenberg.
24. The Lincoln Highway.
25. 1942
26. US Army Corps of Engineers
27. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
28. DeSoto
29. LaSalle
30. Rambler
31. Packard
32. GMC.
33. Studebaker (horse-drawn carriage)
34. Lincoln Continental
35. DeLorean or John Z. DeLorean
36. DeSoto (or DeSoto/Plymouth Division.)
37. Chevrolet. "See the USA, in your Chevrolet!"
38. Oldsmobile
39. Dodge. "Shiny red super-stock Dodge."
40. Ralph Nader