Q 01/05

Ford told a reporter in 1916 that history is 'more or less' what?

A) Luck

B) Bunk

C) Gossip

D) Guesswork

Answer · why

B) Bunk

Bunk was his word to the Chicago Tribune. Yet the same man spent his later years rescuing the American past, and in 1929 he dedicated a museum complex...

Q 02/05

What exasperated the backers of Ford's first car company?

A) Endless tinkering

B) Reckless borrowing

C) Public feuding

D) Heavy drinking

Answer · why

A) Endless tinkering

Endless tinkering sank it: Ford kept improving the model and called it not ready for customers, so the backers who wanted a car to sell gave up. His t...

Q 03/05

Ford's father William sailed for America in 1847 from which country?

A) Germany

B) Belgium

C) Ireland

D) Scotland

Answer · why

C) Ireland

Ireland, and County Cork in particular, was William's home. Seventy years on, his son picked Cork as the site of a tractor factory, the emigrant's boy...

Q 04/05

What reputation did the 15-year-old Ford earn by taking neighbours' property apart and putting it back together?

A) Watch repairman

B) Gunsmith

C) Bicycle mechanic

D) Locksmith

Answer · why

A) Watch repairman

Watch repairman was his name around the neighbourhood by 15. The watches doubled as his textbooks: taking them apart and making them run again taught ...

Q 05/05

At 12, Ford met the first vehicle he had ever seen moving without horses; what powered it?

A) Gasoline

B) Electricity

C) Compressed air

D) Steam

Answer · why

D) Steam

Steam drove it, a heavy engine rolling along a Michigan road under its own power. By his own account Ford was off his father's wagon and quizzing the ...