Car Repair
The part you replace regularly to keep your engine breathing clean air.
What is an air filter?
A trash-talking reporter and a crew of rivals in a 1970s newsroom.
What is Anchorman?
“Al dente” refers to pasta cooked to this texture.
What is firm/tender?
The fastest qualifier earns this starting spot.
What is pole position?
"Winter is coming" opens the door to this incomplete fantasy epic series.
What is a Song of Ice and Fire?
This routine service usually includes replacing the filter and 4–6 quarts of fluid.
What is an oil change?
“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?
F1’s race day is typically on this day of the weekend.
What is Sunday?
This cyberpunk classic by William Gibson coined many of the modern “cyberspace” vibes.
What is Neuromancer?
If your steering wheel shakes while braking, these may be warped.
What are brake rotors?
A rock mockumentary whose amp famously goes “up to 11.”
What is This Is Spinal Tap?
Equal parts flour and fat cooked together to thicken sauces.
What is a roux?
This non-competing car is deployed to slow the field during hazards.
What is the Safety Car?
In this book, Neal Stephenson named "The Metaverse" which has shaped modern VR language.
What is Snow Crash?
Blue smoke from the exhaust typically means the engine is burning ____.
What is oil?
A spoof of disaster movies featuring lines like “I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”
What is Airplane?
This emulsion sauce is egg yolk + butter + lemon, and it hates being overheated.
What is hollandaise?
This system opens the rear wing flap for more straight-line speed.
What is DRS?
The AI known as “Murderbot” first appears in this novella.
What is All Systems Red?
A “clunk” over bumps plus uneven tire wear often points to worn suspension ____.
What are ball joints or tie rods?
A noir-style comedy where a private eye investigates an obscene animation scandal in 1930s L.A
What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
This is the name of the clarified butter used in many Indian dishes.
What is ghee?
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?