Car Repair
Checked via a dipstick, this fluid lubricates your engine's moving parts.
What is engine oil?
The Griswold family's disastrous cross-country road trip is the subject of this 1983 Chevy Chase film.
What is National Lampoon's Vacation?
“Al dente” refers to pasta cooked to this texture.
What is firm/tender?
The lane is where cars stop for this quick service.
What is a pit stop/pit lane?
“Winter is coming” opens the door to this Martin series starter.
What is A Game of Thrones?
This emissions control device converts CO and hydrocarbons in your exhaust into water and CO2.
What is a catalytic converter?
“It’s just a flesh wound!” is from this absurd medieval comedy.
What is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Cooking in simmering liquid just below boiling is called this.
What is poaching?
The fastest qualifier earns this starting spot.
What is pole position?
“Fear is the mind-killer” comes from this series’ first book.
What is Dune?
A grinding growl from a wheel that worsens in turns likely means this component is failing.
What is a wheel bearing?
A man narrates his life as if it’s a novel in this comedy starring Will Ferrell.
What is Stranger than Fiction?
Equal parts flour and fat cooked together to thicken sauces.
What is a roux?
“Slipstreaming” is using the reduced air resistance area behind another car—also called the ____.
What is the draft?
A cyberpunk classic by William Gibson that coined a lot of modern “cyberspace” vibes.
What is Neuromancer?
Worn versions of these hydraulic components let your car bounce excessively over every bump.
What are shock absorbers (struts)?
A satire where a small-town beauty queen is coached for Miss America by a grumpy cop
What is Miss Congeniality?
This is the name of the clarified butter used in many Indian dishes.
What is ghee?
“Parc fermé” rules limit changes to the car after what session?
What is qualifying?
The AI “Murderbot” first appears in this novella.
What is All Systems Red?
A whining sound when turning and increasingly heavy steering effort point to a failing version of this pump.
What is the power steering pump?
A dark comedy about two hitmen hiding out after a botched job—set in Belgium.
What is In Bruges?
“Sous vide” cooks food sealed in a bag using this kind of temperature control method.
What is a water bath?
This infamous Monaco section is a tight hairpin named after a hotel.
What is Fairmont Hairpin or Loews Hairpin?
This Ursula K. Le Guin novel explores gender on the planet Gethen.
What is The Left Hand of Darkness?