Automotive Trivia
Ransom Olds built his 1st car because he couldn’t stand the smell of this animal.
What is a horse?
The color of an apple blossom.
What is pink/white?
If you let them, these insects “wood” eat your house.
What are termites?
Francoise Tourte was “the Stradivari” of this violin accessory.
What is the bow?
Kind of knot that sounds like its tied by your mother’s mother.
What is a granny knot?
The roofs of London taxicabs have extra height so gentlemen won’t knock these off.
What are their top hats?
Willie Nelson, Elton John, & Steve Lawrence all had hit songs with this color eyes in the title.
What is blue?
The double-crested basilisk, this type of reptile, can run across water.
What is a lizard?
“Shaken idiophones” used for music, magical rites, & baby’s entertainment.
What are rattles?
Term for a knot used to fasten a rope to an object or “your wagon to a star”.
What is a hitch?
Most automobile horns beep on this note, 4th of the C scale.
What is an F?
The tallest known trees in the world.
What are redwoods?
Animal that’s a spiny “ocean waif”.
What is a sea urchin?
The 1st version was called the “sackbut” long before Tommy Dorsey adopted it.
What is the trombone?
This geometric knot is one of the oldest in use.
What is a square knot?
The Sentra, Altima, and Pathfinder are all car models made by this maker.
What is Nissan?
The color of the sand on Kaimu Beach on the Island of Hawaii.
What is black?
Appropriate name for bird species that sews leaves together to make a nest.
What are tailorbirds?
Largest family of instruments, it includes “membranophones” which means “skin sounds”.
What is the drum family/percussion instruments?
Half a pair of pants, or the looseness in a knot.
What is a slack?
At $500,000, most expensive custom car was this make & model, made in 1968 for Secret Service.
What was a Lincoln Continental?
Vermont’s nickname.
What is the Green Mountain State?
Synonymous with tiny, some of these smallest arachnids live in the air tubes of honey bee’s bodies.
What are mites?
Circular horns are sounded to accompany this sport.
What is fox hunting?
Not tightness per se, but this kinetic force gives knots their holding power.
What is friction?