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Test Your Knowledge of Automotive History (Part 3)

Posted October 20, 2008 10:06 AM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: automotive history boss of the road Maxwell President tractor

I guess those last few questions were too easy, because they were all answered quickly. So we will move on to the next round of questions from Jim Hill's pop quiz. PS. We did not have the advantage of the Hemmings research library, or Google search or Wikipedia on the cruise ship so these questions were pretty tough for the staff as well as the cruisers.

13. What company made wagons before they made sedans?

14. Whose company slogan was "Boss of the Road" and when was it first used?

15. What year was the Maxwell owned by Jack Benny?

16. Which Ford car was the first model to be introduced to Australia and in what year?

17. If it is a tractor it looks like a car, but if it is a car, it looks like a tractor. What was it? (Hint: featured by Dan in Hemmings Classic Car in 04/05).

18. Who was the first president to ride in a car and when?

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10/20/2008 10:27 AM

Click here if you missed Part 2 of this test.
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10/20/2008 11:08 AM

13. Studebaker

14. No idea, never heard the slogan...

15. Don't know it was ever precisely specified, but probably 1906.

16. Just a guess, the 'T' in 1920.

17. Confused (and confusing...)

18. Teddy Roosevelt in 19(06?)

For what it's worth, #13 is the only one (unless you count #14 and #17!) I have confidence in.

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10/20/2008 11:12 AM

1913

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10/20/2008 11:36 AM

15. http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt3m3nc4bj/

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10/20/2008 11:32 AM

1938 Minneapolis Moline Comfort tractor...............

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10/20/2008 11:42 AM

18. The first US president to ride in an automobile was not Theodore Roosevelt as many people suggest, but was William McKinley in 1901. An electric ambulance transported him after he was shot by a deranged anarchist. Eight days later, he died and his vice president Theodore Roosevelt became the president. Roosevelt was the first to ride in a car, but not the first to ride in an automobile. Taft was the first to own an automobile, and Harding was the first who learned to drive before being President.

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10/20/2008 12:47 PM

I just realized something......... Moose is making us do all the work here and he'll probably get the brownie points on another blog...........clever moose.

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10/20/2008 12:57 PM

Ve-wwwy twicky, these meese... ...I'll let someone else have the rest of the fun.

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10/21/2008 8:53 AM

LOL! Unfortunately, I'm not that clever. This blog entry is actually a cross-posting from the Hemmings Auto Blog over on http://blog.hemmings.com/. CR4ers love challenge questions of all kinds, so I thought this might be fun. Based on the number of views, I think we hit a sweet spot.

And I am proud to say that our own CR4ers stack up pretty well against the Hemmings car experts!

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10/21/2008 10:02 AM

Just foolin' around..........Keep 'em comin'............

The Moline was at a plowing match in Ont (took me a few hrs to remember wot it was called)....overheard one grizzled old farmer referring to it as his Sunday tractor.

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10/21/2008 7:57 PM

Is this another homework assignment we have been tricked into solving for some young child?

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10/22/2008 7:50 AM

Dear Bob

Read instructions before assembly of callow conjecture.

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Does that callow conjecture require batteries?

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10/22/2008 11:02 AM

No.....it's a windup..............wind up? wind down?

I don't know

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10/22/2008 9:31 AM

If you expect me to think before I speak, I'll never have time to say anything.

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Oh, that's ok then.........I didn't know you were a politician.........

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