OK all you car buffs and buffettes. Here’s your chance to win a Ten-Day All-Expense Paid Trip to Hawaii for two. The first person to respond to me with correct answers to all 10 questions on the quiz wins. NO CHEATING! NO GOOGLE! The winner goes to Hawaii. Cheaters get nothing. Now, let’s play, “Who’s Your Daddy”?
STOP! READ LEGAL DISCLAIMER. Any resemblance to the name of this quiz and The Maury Povich Show is strictly coincidental and does not obligate me to take the DNA test.
Name the Parent Company for each car model listed:
(1.) XLR
(2.) MDX
(3.) Malibu
(4.) S600
(5.) M6
(6.) GAZ 24-10
(7.) G35
(8.) Mustang
(9.) Z4
(10.) Pacer
Well, how’d you do? Be sure to respond quickly. Of course, the two no-brainers were the #3 Chevy Malibu and the #8 Ford Mustang. You older dudes will know that the #10 Pacer was made by AMC (which no longer exists) back in the ‘70’s. But, what about those other names that are just meaningless alphanumeric characters? What’s with that?
There was a time when car names made sense. It’s bad enough that most cars now look alike. The least they could do is give them interesting names. When I was just a small kid I could name every car on the road, and drove my parents crazy constantly pointing them out. It wasn’t because I was a boy genius. It’s because (1) the names were easy to remember, (2) all the names were phonetically different, and (3) the cars all had their own unique designs.
OK, responses to the quiz are now coming in. All of you that had correct answers to all ten questions have been disqualified for cheating. I know (and you know) that you went straight to Google for your answers. You may have known most of the answers to the quiz, but NOT # 6.
To get the correct answer to #6, you would have had to:
(1.) Have been an auto mechanic in the Soviet Union during the cold war period. (unlikely)
(2.) Be someone with no life, so you actually study boring trivia like this. (get counseling)
(3.) OR you cheated; you lied, and went straight to a search engine. (cheater)
Even though I’m disgusted with your lack of integrity, I’m going to give you the answers.
(1.) Cadillac XLR
(2.) Acura MDX
(3.) Chevrolet Malibu
(4.) Mercedes S600
(5.) BMW M6
STOP! READ LEGAL DISCLAIMER. Any resemblance to the name of this quiz and The Maury Povich Show is strictly coincidental and does not obligate me to take the DNA test.
Name the Parent Company for each car model listed:
(1.) XLR
(2.) MDX
(3.) Malibu
(4.) S600
(5.) M6
(6.) GAZ 24-10
(7.) G35
(8.) Mustang
(9.) Z4
(10.) Pacer
Well, how’d you do? Be sure to respond quickly. Of course, the two no-brainers were the #3 Chevy Malibu and the #8 Ford Mustang. You older dudes will know that the #10 Pacer was made by AMC (which no longer exists) back in the ‘70’s. But, what about those other names that are just meaningless alphanumeric characters? What’s with that?
There was a time when car names made sense. It’s bad enough that most cars now look alike. The least they could do is give them interesting names. When I was just a small kid I could name every car on the road, and drove my parents crazy constantly pointing them out. It wasn’t because I was a boy genius. It’s because (1) the names were easy to remember, (2) all the names were phonetically different, and (3) the cars all had their own unique designs.
OK, responses to the quiz are now coming in. All of you that had correct answers to all ten questions have been disqualified for cheating. I know (and you know) that you went straight to Google for your answers. You may have known most of the answers to the quiz, but NOT # 6.
To get the correct answer to #6, you would have had to:
(1.) Have been an auto mechanic in the Soviet Union during the cold war period. (unlikely)
(2.) Be someone with no life, so you actually study boring trivia like this. (get counseling)
(3.) OR you cheated; you lied, and went straight to a search engine. (cheater)
Even though I’m disgusted with your lack of integrity, I’m going to give you the answers.
(1.) Cadillac XLR
(2.) Acura MDX
(3.) Chevrolet Malibu
(4.) Mercedes S600
(5.) BMW M6
(6.) Volga GAZ 24-10
(7.) Infiniti G35
(8.) Ford Mustang
(9.) BMW Z4
(10.) AMC Pacer
I’m really disappointed that none of you won the contest. O well, I’ll be back in 11 days with a new entry to my blog. Aloha.
I’m really disappointed that none of you won the contest. O well, I’ll be back in 11 days with a new entry to my blog. Aloha.
1 comment:
Oh man...you got me on the Soviet Union question...as well as about six other questions. Great Post! -Andy
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