The Annual Scooby/GTR/MLR/TIF/LSOC Quiz.

This quiz is meant as FUN it will however be posted on all 3 above forums you answer just the once YOU MUST NOT EDIT your answer as you will be disqualified! and will be a ‘ramped’ quiz, the questions start easy then they just get harder and harder meaning that by the end your damned head will hurt.

Answers will be given on all forums on Tuesday 31st Dec at 6pm

Scoring system.

To avoid someone waiting and picking what they like from the previous posters there is a subtle depletion factor so that even if you get all questions right but post them on the last day you can only be rewarded 60% of the points accrued from the harder questions you may answer only once.

It is open to all and I have used a little trickery to level the playing field for those who have general knowledge as well as tech stuff.

Lets make a start….

Makes of cars, the following are makes of cars, name the maker;

Q1/. 5.0.50.5.0 = VOLVO (Roman numerals)
Q2/. Made the Golden Hawk = Studebaker
Q3/. French Car Maker we would only know now as a Suspension part. = Panhard
Q4/. Made in Berkshire for a while, but it’s as ‘French’ as could be imagined. = Citroen
Q5/. Morris Oxford from India. = Hindustan
Q6/. Named after a Red Indian Chief. = Pontiac or Cadillac
Q7/. Manufactured the model called the ‘Daffodil’ = DAF
Q8/. Until the mid 70’s these cars had an Ash wood frame and not made in the Malverns. = Marcos
Q9/. Italian Company that produced the ‘206’ and the ‘500’ = Ferrari
Q10/. Crown as an emblem, Detroit muscle and Italian looks. From the Mountains. = Monteverdi
Q11/. Made the ‘Prinz’ = NSU
Q12/. From behind the Iron Curtain, based on a set of stolen blueprints from the USA. Over 20 feet long and 7 feet wide! = ZIL
Q13/. The only one in ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ = Ford (prefect)
Q14/. Named after an American River. = Hudson
Q15/. Made the ‘Hawk’ = Humber
Q16/. Made the ‘Isabella’ = Borgward >2points<
Q17/. Literally can mean ‘before’ or ‘equal’ or ‘many’. (very hard question) = ISO >5points<
Q18/. French Car Maker we would only know now as a Suspension System. = De Dion
Q19/. A London Borough. = Vauxhall
Q20/. The SS?..surely not in the UK. = Jaguar

1pt for each correct except Q16 and Q17

25 points max section winner James Ashley Supra/CTR driver.


Now the ‘Tech’ stuff, these are hard but the answers are simple they can be typed with an ordinary keyboard.

Q21/. The formula for calculating initial Ram Air pressure. MPH--->PSI (hehehehe, told you it was hard.)
Q22/. The formula for calculating the ‘G’ force in any bend of any radius taken at any speed.
Q23/. Wheels are ‘centred’ onto the hub/axle by what?
Q24/. You are stranded on the road, you have parked with one of your drive wheels on a manhole cover that suddenly collapses, and you are driving a 2WD, and it has a Torsen Diff, do you just drive off or do you have to push it? Explain your answer in less than 12 words.
Q25/. Who makes the best Japanese car….whoops sorry! (hehehe)
Q25/. What Precious metal is contained in a Catalytic converter. (always finish with an easy one)

Please participate, no prizes just a laugh, if you ain’t got a funny bone…don’t play!


[Edited by Mycroft - 12/23/2002 10:49:29 PM]

[Edited by Mycroft - 12/31/2002 9:21:31 PM]

 

Q25. = platinum catalyst
i think!

 

q2 Studebaker
q3 De dion
q5 Hindustan
q6 pontiac
q7 daf

q12 either the ZIL or ZIS depening upon who was in power
q13 Ford prefect
q14 Hudson
q15 could be either studebaker or hudson as both manufacturers had models with that name
q16 borgward
q18 as per q3
q20 Swallow Sports later became Jaguar

Richard

 

I managed two, the one above and,

The wheel nuts/bolts

 

Bob T...Wrong

 

Q10 Monteverdi
Q11 NSU

How'm I doing Mycroft ????

[Edited by rsquire - 12/24/2002 1:36:03 AM]

 

You are doing OK...but...you are supposed to get all the answers you can and post the once! That way I can judge whether you are doing this from a knowledge base or from trawling the Net, so assemble the full list next, publish it and take your chances.
10/10 for tenacity, 0/10 for cool

 

I'll have you know that was all from inside my head..


Dooooh


I'll get me anorak now

 

1. Goggomobil
2. Studebaker
3. Panhard
4. Talbot-Darracq-Sunbeam (initailly Talbot-Darracq)
5. ?
6. ?
7. Daf
8. GN Founded by Frazer Nash
9. Arbarth
10.Maserati
11.NSU
12.ZIL
13.Ford prefect (borrowed from above, never watched it )
14.Hudson
15.Humber
16.Borgward
17.?
18.De Dion Bouton
19.Vauxhall
20. Swallow Sidecar Co. SS1 being first car built, later Jaguar.

If you think I'm having a go at the rest at this time of nig... MORNING think again

I thank you and good night

Andy C

 

and on to the harder stuff now I have had sleeeeeeeeeep

21. V=40 P^ (1/2) V=Knots. P= Pressure difference
I'm lost on that one really

22. RCF=11.18 x (N/100)2 x R
N= speed (rpm)
R= Rotation Radius (cm)
RCF= Centrifugal force (Xg)

23. Stub

24. Drive out, it's a torque sensing diff

25. Palladium.

Ok all done

Andy

 

Andy

Vauxhall Doh!!! of course

Also forgot that Humber made a Hawk *slaps self around head*

But isn't Maserati's badge a Trident not a crown//

Richard

 

do you want to put this on Scoobycity forum

 

Richard,
Maserati badge.
more like a trident than a crown I agree



Bugger you're right
here's the Monteverdi badge



Andy

[Edited by Fuzz - 12/24/2002 2:19:26 PM]

 

Fuzz, you are doing well with that, but there are are 100 points available and you have about 30!

Lots of people it seems are printing off the quiz and doing it as an after dinner quiz tomorrow!

Good idea actually...

Only 1 'tech' question has benn answered on any forum correctly...I may have made it too hard!

 

Oh well, 30 it is then
I was up till 3.35 this morning "researching" and I'm not going to get any more than I have already got.

Andy

 

You are actually in the lead! hahahahaha

 

Andy

 

New Leader. WITH 84 POINTS!!!!!, James Ashley (Supra/CTR owner)

Only Q17 & Q21 remain unswered anywhere on the net!

 

bollox

Andy

 

Some answers, go to top.

 

 

I dispute question 1!

There is no 'zero' in the Roman numerals system

 

An extra point for the smart-ahse!

So how many points is that then?

 

Come on Mycroft,

we want the tech answers too

Andy

 

Is the answer to 22:
m*(v^2)/r, where m is the vehicle mass, v is the linear velocity and r is the radius of the bend?

I knew applied maths would come in useful one day

[Edited by carl - 1/2/2003 9:39:03 AM]