Automobile Quiz Questions and Answers
1) Mercedes cars belong to which country?
Answer: Germany.
2) What is the expansion of NVH, an abbreviation commonly used in automobile dealings?
Answer: Noise, Vibration and Harshness.
3) What was the rally with which the World Rally Championship opened?
Answer: The Monte Carlo Rally.
4) In which year was the first true Pierce Car made?
Answer: 1901.
5) What are the two essential parts of a vehicle?
Answer: Carriage portion and machine portion.
6) What are the two units of an articulated vehicle?
Answer: Tractor unit and trailer unit.
7) Name the machine portion of the automobile which carries the carriage portion?
Answer: Chassis.
8) Year of manufacture of an automobile is referred to as what?
Answer: Model.
9) Who described the first International Combustion Engine?
Answer: Christiaan Huygens.
10) Who built the first self-propelled road vehicle?
Answer: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.
11) Who built the first American self-propelled steam vehicle?
Answer: Oliver Evans.
12) Who built the first American gasoline powered automobile?
Answer: Charles Duryea and Frank J. Duryea.
13) When was the first electric self-starter installed in the automobile?
Answer: 1911.
14) Who built England’s first full-sized steam carriage built?
Answer: Richard Trevithick.
15) Who introduced the first brake in carriages?
Answer: Walter Hancock.
17) Who invented four-stroke engine?
Answer: Nikolaus August Otto and Eugen Langen.
18) What was the fuel used in the first four-stroke vehicle?
Answer: Gas.
19) When was the four-stroke engine invented?
Answer: 1866.
20) Who substituted oil for gas in the four-stroke engine?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler.
21) What factor contributed most to the acceleration of the development of automobile?
Answer: The introduction of Internal Combustion Engines.
22) Who produced a tricycle with an I.C engine 1n 1885-86?
Answer: Karl Benz.
23) Who built the first motor-cycle?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler.
24) The first four wheeler powered by an I.C engine was built by whom?
Answer: Siegfried Marcus.
25) Who built the first gasoline automobile which incorporated many of the essential features of the modern car?
Answer: Arthur Constantin Krebs.
26) In which year was the Panhard Car designed?
Answer: 1894.
27) What is called the type of body of a car, of which the top is fabric and could be folded down?
Answer: Convertible.
28) What determines the driving thrust (speed) of a vehicle?
Answer: The torque applied at the wheel.
29) What part or device is used to control the speed of a vehicle?
Answer: Accelerator.
30) Name the steel bar which functions by twisting within a vehicle machine?
Answer: Torsion bar.
31) Which car is provided with torsion bars at the front independent suspension system?
Answer: Ambassador.
