Engines
Diesel engines rely on this principle rather than spark for combustion.
What is compression ignition
What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant?
Mistletoe
This rule states that voltage is equal to current times resistance.
What is Ohm’s Law?
How many ghosts are in A Christmas Carol?
4
This safety device became mandatory in all U.S. vehicles starting in 1998
What is the airbag?
This filter traps soot and requires periodic regeneration
What is the DPF?
Name all of Santa’s reindeer?
Rudolph, donner, blitzen, comet, cupid, vixen, prancer, dasher
This module monitors and communicates faults on a J1939 network.
What is the ECM?
What franchise had its own holiday television special in 1978
Star Wars
This American automaker introduced the first moving assembly line in 1913.
What is Ford?
This sensor measures the amount of air entering the engine to calculate fuel delivery.
What is the MAF sensor?
What organization runs Operation Santa, which matches letters to Santa with people who would like to donate gifts?
USPS
A voltage drop test helps locate this type of problem.
What is high resistance?
In its holiday specials, what show features Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo?
South Park
Introduced in 1953, this was Chevrolet’s first two-seat sports car.
What is the Corvette?
A variable-geometry turbocharger adjusts these components to control boost.
What are the vanes?
The charity Toys for Tots is rub by the reserve force of what branch of US Military?
Marines
These relays reduce voltage drop by controlling circuits with low-current signals.
What are control relays?
What hit 1984 movie starts with a hapless inventor visiting a mysterious shop in search of a Christmas present for his son?
Gremlins
This Japanese automaker created the first mass-produced hybrid car in 1997
What is Toyota (Prius)?
A diesel engine derate is most often initiated by this system.
What is the emissions control system?
What president was against Christmas tree
President Roosevelt
High alternator ripple is typically caused by this type of failure.
What is a bad diode?
What 1942 movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire opens on Christmas Eve?
Holiday Inn
This company produced the first successful steam-powered car in the U.S.
What is Stanley (Stanley Steamer)?