Christmas lunch is over, so gather the family round for endless hours of fun with Autocar’s festive automotive brain teasers.
If you want to see how many you got right, or if you simply want to cheat, the answers can be found after each round of ten questions.
Questions
1. Pirelli sponsors which football team’s stadium in the Midlands?
2. Which Autocar correspondent wrote the book about the Ford Cortina 1600Es that were given to members of England’s 1970 World Cup squad?
3. Which Autocar journalist appeared on The Chase earlier this year?
4. Who was the first Formula 1 world champion to die of natural causes?
5. Which team was running Stirling Moss when he secured the first victory for a Lotus F1 car?
6. In which country is the new Honda Civic Type R going to be manufactured?
7. The McLaren Artura plug-in hybrid supercar matched the 0-100mph acceleration benchmark of which one of its legendary forebears in its road test earlier this year?
8. Which car maker spent most of the past decade sponsoring Manchester United’s shirts, despite the fact it stopped selling cars in Europe in 2015?
9. How much is the ‘Tailgate Event Suite with leather cushions’ on the new Range Rover?
10. Which two cars are currently the only purely bespoke M models?
Answers
1. Burton Albion
2. James Ruppert
3. Felix Page
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I just can answer 1/4 of the questions.
This set of questions is so interesting that I can only answer 1/3 of the questions.
Unfortunately, the answer to No 39 is incorrect. Initially the planned vehicle was referred to as "the Deutschlander" as much as it was accepted that a more usable name, which needed to start with B, like B car. In October 1972 to the project code name "Bobcat" was chosen. In 1974 Marketing led the search for a permanent name, and from a pile of suggestions shortlisted 13, then 5, which had to be chosen by November 1974 Henry Ford, who had made name picking his personal business, was given three names from which to choose - Bravo, Fiesta, or Amigo. He knew that to use Fiesta required permission from GM, so he called GM Chairman Tom Murphy who said "it's yours", and told his Head of International Operations, Phil Caldwell that the new car is called Fiesta.