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.



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.


16) Who constructed an Internal Combustion Engine in 1860?

Answer: Etienne Lenoir.



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.