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Automotive and Motorsport Trivia

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Automotive and motorsport trivia covers global car manufacturers, racing championships, and brand taglines. Test takers encounter these facts in general knowledge and current affairs papers. This subject assesses familiarity with commercial vehicles and historical racing records.

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Automotive and Motorsport Trivia Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: The following passage is followed by a question with five options. Choose the best option.

The new car to buy this year is the Santro. We had 100 randomly selected motorists drive the Santro and the other two leading sub-compact cars. Seventy-five drivers ranked the Santro first in handling. Sixty -nine rated the Santro first in styling. From the responses of these 100 drivers, we can show you that they ranked Santro first overall in our composite category of style, performance, comfort, and drivability.

The persuasive appeal of the advertisement's claim is most weakened by its use of the undefined word.

  1. Randomly

  2. Handling

  3. First

  4. Composite
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

It is true that each of the answer choices is conceivably correct. But it is important to keep in mind that you are looking for the best answer, which will be the one word, which, more than all the others, is likely to be abused. As for (1), while there may be different ways of doing a random selection, we should be able to decide whether sample was in fact, selected fairly. Although the ad may be lying about the selection of participants in the study, we should be able to determine whether they are lying. In other words, though they may not have selected the sample randomly, they cannot escape by saying, “Oh by random we meant anyone who liked the Santo.” The same is true of (3), “first” that is a fairly clear term. You add up the answers you got, and one will be at the top of the list. Now, (2) is open to manipulation. By asking our question correctly, that is, by finagling a bit with what we mean by handling, we can influence the answers we get. For example, compare: “Did you find that Santro had a nice steering wheel?” “Did you find the wheel easy to turn?” We could keep it up until we found a question that worked out to give a set of “responses” from “randomly” selected drivers who could rank the Santro “first”. Now, if one category itself is susceptible to manipulation, imagine how much easier it will be to manipulate a “Composite” category. We have only to take those individual categories in which the Santro scored well, construct from them a “composite” category, and announce the Santro “first” in the overall category. There is also the question of how the composite was constructed.

Multiple choice

Name the India's first electric car?

  1. Reva

  2. Rova

  3. Plova

  4. Pela
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Reva, produced by the Reva Electric Car Company based in Bangalore, was India's first commercially available electric car.

Multiple choice

The car named LINEA is a product of

  1. Hyundai

  2. Maruti-Suzuki

  3. Fiat

  4. Mercedes
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Fiat Linea is a C-segment sedan that was manufactured by the Italian automaker Fiat.

Multiple choice

Splash is a model brought out by

  1. Hero Honda

  2. Maruti -Suzuki

  3. BMW

  4. Hyundai
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Maruti Suzuki Splash is a city car that was produced by the Japanese automaker Suzuki and sold as the Splash in many markets, including India.

Multiple choice

A-Star is a car from the stable of

  1. Maruti-Suzuki

  2. Hyundai

  3. Vhevorlet

  4. Fiat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A-Star is a Maruti-Suzuki small car model. Hyundai has i10 and i20, and Vhevorlet appears to be a typo for Chevrolet.

Multiple choice

Identify the incorrect match. Automobile company Car Model

  1. Fiat Automobiles Panda

  2. Skoda Automobiles Fabia

  3. Honda Automobiles Civic

  4. All of them are matched properly
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Fiat makes the Panda, Skoda makes the Fabia, and Honda makes the Civic. Since all these pairs are correctly matched, the statement that they are all matched properly is correct.

Multiple choice

Formula One Management, renewed for another five years, a telecast deal with ________ , giving them exclusive broadcasting rights of the FIA Formula One World Championship across multiple platforms in 24 Asian markets.

  1. DD Sports

  2. ESPN and STAR Sports

  3. Ten Sports

  4. Sony Set Max
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Formula One Management signed a major broadcasting deal with ESPN and STAR Sports to cover 24 Asian markets. This was a significant multi-year agreement for the sport's expansion in the region.

Multiple choice

The car Nano is launched by

  1. Tata

  2. Bidla

  3. Maruti

  4. Bajaj
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Tata Nano was a city car manufactured and marketed by the Indian automaker Tata Motors.