On August 22, 1902, the Cadillac motor company was founded. This week’s quiz is in honour of one of the finest makers of automobile ever.

1 This legendary manufacturer started as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922. After the war, the SS logo did not seem a good idea and they rebranded, fortunately with great success. What is their brand name now?

2 With Fast and Furious and Gone In Sixty Seconds franchises, car chases have become a huge cinematic attraction. But the sequence that really created the genre was a 1968 film in which Steve McQueen pursued a Dodge Charger around San Francisco in his Ford Mustang. Name this iconic action film.

3 In which extremely well-known work of fiction, released in the early 20th century, is one of the main characters jailed for 20 years for stealing and crashing a car? He subsequently escapes.

4 What is common to the naming of the Lamborghini Islero, Diablo and the Murcielago?

5 Which company, famous for a completely different product range, was started specifically to manufacture a record player for automobiles? Their name was a play on the most well-known record player of the time.

6 What sporting tradition was started at the Le Mans endurance race in 1967 by champion Dan Gurney when he spotted the Ford CEO and team owners in front of the podium?

7 Rarely has one car model dominated international production. But in 1916, 55 per cent of all cars produced were of a single model. Which one?

8 Which bestselling novelist wrote about a poor rusted Plymouth Fury that became evil after being restored?

9 Which car sold 20 million units between 1970 and 2002, and is the highest-selling automobile to be continuously produced without major design changes?

10 The D-Day was the name given to the launch of Operation Overlord, the invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944. In that case, what was E-Day?

Answers

1. Jaguar, now a part of the Tata Group

2. Bullitt. In 2008, the 40th anniversary of the film launch, Ford released a special Bullitt version of the Mustang

3. Toad from Wind in the Willows. The book is silent on whether he was ever arrested again

4. They are all named after fighting bulls. The Islero killed star matador Manolete in 1947

5. Motorola named after Victrola, the best-selling record player model

6. Presented a magnum of champagne, he sprayed it all over the crowd instead of drinking it. Life photographer Flip Schulke made sure the world got to see the celebration

7. The Ford Model T, the first mass-manufactured vehicle. This record is unlikely to be ever beaten

8. Stephen King. The car was called Christine. A film version was released in 1983

9. The Lada, produced in the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact partners. Who needed to make changes when the customers had few other options!

10. The day the Ford Edsel was launched in the US — September 4, 1957. It was one of the most spectacular flops in motor history

Joy Bhattacharjya is a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup

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