We Wrote Extremely Hard Car-Questions That Only True Enthusiasts Can Answer. Let’s See How You Do

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Friday night was a big one for The Autopian: We held our second quarterly trivia night for Velour and Rich Corinthian Leather members, and great fun was had by all. Great mental taxation, but also great fun. Roughly a dozen members descended on our Zoom call, ready to reach for the far corners of their automotive memory to answer our widely varied questions, often with an excellent degree of success.

Victory went to team four with 43 out of 62 possible points, although all teams were tightly-clustered in scoring. Think you can do better? Read on below for all our trivia questions, then tap on our special tiles to see the answers. Note: The first two rounds are absurdly hard, so maybe start at three, then finish up at five, then come back to one and two.

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Round One: EVs

  1. The top four lithium-ion battery companies together dominate 70 percent of the market. Name those companies. (Four points)
  2. Name two reasons why solid axles are likely to die off with EVs. (Two points)
  3. Which North American connector is smaller than a CCS connector yet has separate AC and DC pins unlike Tesla’s NACS?
  4. Light-duty plug-in vehicles sold in North America feature three different types of DC fast charging connector. What are the three connectors, which one is least-common, and what is the latest vehicle to launch featuring this uncommon standard? (Five points)
  5. What does Hyundai-Kia’s E-GMP platform stand for? What’s the voltage of the architecture? Which vehicle has been primarily struggling with ICCU failures? What does ICCU mean? (Four points)
  6. The gasoline-powered version of this car was sold in Canada but not America. The electric version of this car was sold in America but not Canada. What on earth am I talking about?
  7. An electric car does not have an accessory drive, so there’s no belt driving a water pump, power steering pump, alternator, or air conditioning compressor. What parts replace these four, and which ones are on the high-voltage circuit? (Six points)
  8. What is the ideal operating temperature for a typical lithium-ion battery call in a modern EV (ballpark range)? In an EV, what two fluids go into a “chiller”? Operating like A/C in reverse, which device allows for battery/cabin warmup much more efficiently than using a PTC resistance heater? (Four points)
  9. Why does the Ford F-150 Lightning have different gear ratios on its front and rear motors?
  10. A BMW i3 with a 42.2 kWh battery pack parks at a 6.0 kW Level 2 charging station. Under ideal conditions, approximately how long would it take to charge from 10 percent to 80 percent?

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Round Two: The Name Game

  1. What was the first Lamborghini model to not be named after a bull?
  2. Quite possibly the ugliest racetrack in America, and yet it has two cars named after it.
  3. The model name of the Suzuki Liana made famous on Top Gear is actually an acronym. What does Liana stand for?
  4. Kei cars often have whimsical names. Which one implies the presence of marshmallows or a cuckoo bird mascot? (Two points)
  5. Sometimes, a car undergoes a name change very early in life. What was the Nissan Armada initially called?
  6. If you’re going to name a car, run it through Google Translate first. Why might Audi’s e-tron models not do so well in Francophone locales?
  7. Why couldn’t Jeep call the YJ a Wrangler in Canada?
  8. Before it was just called the Tribeca, what two names did Subaru’s first three-row crossover go by? (Two points)

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Round Three: Car Parts

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Round Four: Car Haikus

  1. People’s car behind wall / Smoky, mocked by everyone / Goats ate the bodies.
  2. Round eyes and cute face / Belies the power and speed / It’s not an Escort.
  3. Out in Tokyo / This sister to a French prince / Now this firm makes trucks.
  4. Sveltest from Sweden / Had fins and two SU carbs / And a shooting brake.
  5. First named for a fruit / Prickly outside, sweet inside / Then named for a sword.
  6. Van version of the / Car that’s unsafe at any speed / What a verdant name.
  7. Unassuming box / Rhapsodized by David E. / Please turn your hymnals.
  8. A leathern body / Perfect for that famous spring / Engine from “Star Wars”.

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Round Five: Two-Line Drawings

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We’d like to thank our amazing Velour and Rich Corinthian Leather members for making this trivia night so great. Admittedly, we tried to make this event’s questions easier than the first trivia night’s questions, but, well, we may have still gone a little overboard. If this is your idea of an awesome Friday night, hop this link to learn more about membership. So, how did you do? I’d love to know in the comments.

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43 thoughts on “We Wrote Extremely Hard Car-Questions That Only True Enthusiasts Can Answer. Let’s See How You Do”

  1. Those 2 line car drawings are absolutely gorgeous. I would pay a silly amount of money for a print like that with a series or lineage or a model or carmaker –
    – for example each 911 from the first to today, or BMW- 1998.
    I love them! The Pontiac transport one in particular!! It makes me want to buy one!

  2. I protest!!!
    R2Q2: Daytona (Ferrari and Dodge) should be the correct answer! Daytona International Speedway is an oval track in Florida. How can Sebring be worse?!?

    1. Because there are 3 cars named after Daytona… Ferrari, Dodge ( 2 cars for them ) and Ford also used the name.

      However, I personally would counter with Laguna Seca. That is an abomination of a track… There, I said it. Fight me.

  3. Wow, I’m just not the enthusiast that the rest of you are, or that I thought I was. Those were impossible.
    Well, I got some of the car parts, and some of the silhouettes, and partial credit on a few EV questions. Some of the Haikus I don’t even get after seeing the answers.
    As a Velour member, I’ve considered joining, but I’d just be dragging a team down. Oh well…

  5. I remembered a certain tall German hatchback being offered as an electric ‘compliance car’ here, did well on rounds two through four (thought the taillights I got wrong belonged to a pre-facelift Chrysler 300 and a French or Italian ’70s five-door hatchback, and I only knew the VW taillight as a late-’60s example – also, what the hell’s that gasket, BMW?) and nailed the drawings, though I mightn’t’ve expected the Scarab if not for Jason’s past articles and was only sure the Jeep wasn’t a KK once I noticed, you guessed it, the taillight location (and again, David’s influence helped).

  9. The first two rounds were, indeed, very hard. I’ll start with the silhouettes, which are easier.

    1)Citroen ID/DS
    2)Jeep XJ
    3)Porsche 911 (duh)
    4)Ford Consul
    5)Stout Scarab
    6)not entirely sure of this but suspect BMW i3
    7)GM Dustbuster van (let’s say a TransSport)
    8)Triumph TR3

  10. Well, I did awful. Thanks to my wife’s beat-to-hell minivan, I spotted immediately the Kia Sedona tail light. Only we have the nearly identical Hyundai Entourage, their virgin and short-lived attempt at doing minivans.

    2. That was one of my family’s vans as well. The Hyundai had that taillight first, as one of the changes they did in the rebadge job. After the Hyundai was dropped, Kia swapped it out on the Sedona as part of a facelift. GM did a similar thing throwing the Saturn Outlook’s rear fenders, glass, and hatch on a facelift of the original Acadia.

  11. I misremembered the A2 as the A1 (I mean, I remembered lightweight pufferfish car), so I’m counting that as a half point, 27.5 in total. Like a few others, very weak on the EV stuff

  15. I certainly did not do great but once it occurred to me it was going to be cars written about weekly here i doubled my correct answers into high double digits.

    3. I expected it to be a joke answer, and would’ve gotten it correct if I’d been told my senses of scale and humor were both slightly off.

  18. I saw the Pontiac Trans Sport (or Chevy Lumina van or Oldsmobile Silhouette — I’m sure there’s some detail included that points to one in particular) and thought I had a chance, but I don’t know any of these.

    My guess for the first one about the top 4 battery suppliers is: Energizer, Duracell, Rayovac, and Eveready.

  22. At first it sounded like fun, then I realized how clueless I’d be and went to a drive-in to watch Barbie instead. These questions are even harder than I expected.
    OTOH we may need some line drawing Autopian shirts.

  23. This part with the tail lights has Torch’s stench all over it. I thought he had a therapy appointment today? What he’s in California? Time to call the authorities.

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