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Who will be the next “Classically Tough Trivia Contest” champion?
While attending Boston University I had a gig as a disc jockey for WTBU 640 AM. Famous as the station where Howard Stern got his start, being granted a show on “BU-64” seemed like quite an honor – even if it was 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. every Sunday.
Given the time slot, I often had a sneaking suspicion that nobody was listening. One evening my co-host and I dug into our pockets and emptied all of our cash onto the table. After counting it up, we offered all $20.30 to the first listener who called in -- even promising to deliver the money in person. Nobody called. I hit the button to repeat the song currently running, and we left the studio to go home to sleep.
While creating Sound Classic’s fourth annual “Classically Tough Trivia Contest,” that old feeling hit again. I stayed up one night thinking “If I skipped the quiz this year, would it be missed?”
The next morning, I got my answer. Sitting in my inbox was an email from last year’s winner, Dennis Laine, inquiring if and when he would have an opportunity to defend his title.
Well, Dennis, here’s your chance! If you thought last year’s was hard, then this year’s quiz will prove more frustrating than editing a modern-day Howard Stern Show for broadcast on Nickelodeon.
1) What was the last car to be sold through Sears?
2) Name an Italian automaker whose name is neither an acronym nor contains the name of the company’s founder.
3) What was the first car to use LED gauges?
4) This Kalamazoo, MI manufacturer sold fundamentally unchanged cars from 1959 through 1982.
5) Name the American-made makes and models that competed in the SCCA Trans Am series from 1967 through 1970.
6) Which car manufacturer’s owner was nicknamed Wacky?
7) 1969 Corvette L88s were delivered with a warning sticker attached to the center console. What was warning?
8) What company was famous for producing the Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica?
9) Identify the members of the “Scat Pack.”
10) Rain sensing technology first appeared on which car?
11) The president of this non-German auto manufacturer served time after WWII for conspiring with the NAZIs.
12) Identify the car in the attached picture.
13) Prior to recent sport coupes and trucks, what was the last production sedan available in the US market to use suicide doors?
14) List all the engine displacements available on 1969 Ford Mustangs.
15) 1956 Chrysler, Plymouth, DeSoto, Imperial, Plymouth, Dodge vehicles were the first to offer this audio entertainment option.
16) In which decade did hemispherical combustion chambers debut in production cars?
17) “Cannonball Run,” “Gumball Rally,” and “Cannonball” were all movies about outlaw cross-country races. For each of these movies, name the make and model of the car that was declared the winner.
18) Jem Marsh and Frank Costin formed which car company in 1959?
19) In 1977, 1978 and 1979, Pontiac offered some of its cars with engines made by this other automaker.
20) It’s the marque that used The Sphinx as a radiator mascot.
Send in your answers to trivia@apexstrategy.com by 9:30AM on January 2nd, 2006 for a shot at being recognized by millions of die-hard Sound Classics fans as having best car trivia mind of the year.
Submit questions or cars for profiles to Sam Barer’s Sound Classics at sc@apexstrategy.com.
Who will be the next “Classically Tough Trivia Contest” champion?
While attending Boston University I had a gig as a disc jockey for WTBU 640 AM. Famous as the station where Howard Stern got his start, being granted a show on “BU-64” seemed like quite an honor – even if it was 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. every Sunday.
Given the time slot, I often had a sneaking suspicion that nobody was listening. One evening my co-host and I dug into our pockets and emptied all of our cash onto the table. After counting it up, we offered all $20.30 to the first listener who called in -- even promising to deliver the money in person. Nobody called. I hit the button to repeat the song currently running, and we left the studio to go home to sleep.
While creating Sound Classic’s fourth annual “Classically Tough Trivia Contest,” that old feeling hit again. I stayed up one night thinking “If I skipped the quiz this year, would it be missed?”
The next morning, I got my answer. Sitting in my inbox was an email from last year’s winner, Dennis Laine, inquiring if and when he would have an opportunity to defend his title.
Well, Dennis, here’s your chance! If you thought last year’s was hard, then this year’s quiz will prove more frustrating than editing a modern-day Howard Stern Show for broadcast on Nickelodeon.
1) What was the last car to be sold through Sears?
2) Name an Italian automaker whose name is neither an acronym nor contains the name of the company’s founder.
3) What was the first car to use LED gauges?
4) This Kalamazoo, MI manufacturer sold fundamentally unchanged cars from 1959 through 1982.
5) Name the American-made makes and models that competed in the SCCA Trans Am series from 1967 through 1970.
6) Which car manufacturer’s owner was nicknamed Wacky?
7) 1969 Corvette L88s were delivered with a warning sticker attached to the center console. What was warning?
8) What company was famous for producing the Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica?
9) Identify the members of the “Scat Pack.”
10) Rain sensing technology first appeared on which car?
11) The president of this non-German auto manufacturer served time after WWII for conspiring with the NAZIs.
12) Identify the car in the attached picture.
13) Prior to recent sport coupes and trucks, what was the last production sedan available in the US market to use suicide doors?
14) List all the engine displacements available on 1969 Ford Mustangs.
15) 1956 Chrysler, Plymouth, DeSoto, Imperial, Plymouth, Dodge vehicles were the first to offer this audio entertainment option.
16) In which decade did hemispherical combustion chambers debut in production cars?
17) “Cannonball Run,” “Gumball Rally,” and “Cannonball” were all movies about outlaw cross-country races. For each of these movies, name the make and model of the car that was declared the winner.
18) Jem Marsh and Frank Costin formed which car company in 1959?
19) In 1977, 1978 and 1979, Pontiac offered some of its cars with engines made by this other automaker.
20) It’s the marque that used The Sphinx as a radiator mascot.
Send in your answers to trivia@apexstrategy.com by 9:30AM on January 2nd, 2006 for a shot at being recognized by millions of die-hard Sound Classics fans as having best car trivia mind of the year.
Submit questions or cars for profiles to Sam Barer’s Sound Classics at sc@apexstrategy.com.
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