Q 01/05

Which Chevrolet, launched to take on the Mustang, plays Bumblebee in the 2007 film Transformers?

A) Chevelle

B) Nova

C) Camaro

D) Corvette

Answer · why

C) Camaro

Camaro was a word found in an old French dictionary as slang for a pal, though Chevrolet managers told reporters it was a small, vicious animal that e...

Q 02/05

Which 1984 comedy's heroes race to their calls in Ecto-1, a converted 1959 Cadillac ambulance?

A) Ghostbusters

B) Repo Man

C) Gremlins

D) Police Academy

Answer · why

A) Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters used a combined ambulance and hearse built by Miller-Meteor on a Cadillac chassis, and three different cars have played Ecto-1 across the...

Q 03/05

Which musician scored his first US top-ten hit in 1983 with the single Little Red Corvette?

A) Billy Joel

B) Rick James

C) David Bowie

D) Prince

Answer · why

D) Prince

Prince took the song to number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, and after his death in 2016 it climbed back into the top 20.

Q 04/05

Which refrigerator brand did General Motors own for sixty years before selling it in 1979?

A) Kelvinator

B) Frigidaire

C) Whirlpool

D) Westinghouse

Answer · why

B) Frigidaire

Frigidaire was so dominant under GM that many Americans called any refrigerator a Frigidaire, whatever the make.

Q 05/05

Which author of Unsafe at Any Speed won an apology from GM's president for having him tailed?

A) Ralph Nader

B) Upton Sinclair

C) Rachel Carson

D) Vance Packard

Answer · why

A) Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader's 1965 book opened with an attack on the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair, and GM's James Roche apologized to him before a Senate subcommitt...