Q 01/05

What did the jeep largely replace in the US Army during World War II?

A) Horses and motorcycles

B) Tanks and armoured cars

C) Ambulances and buses

D) Trucks and trains

Answer · why

A) Horses and motorcycles

Horses and motorcycles were obsolete almost at once, because the jeep did their jobs and more. It laid telephone cable, ploughed snow and carried stre...

Q 02/05

Which machine was built on Jeep vehicles or bare Jeep chassis through the 1950s?

A) The Ski-Doo

B) The Zamboni

C) The Sno-Cat

D) The Bobcat

Answer · why

B) The Zamboni

The Zamboni began in 1949 as a one-off pieced together from war-surplus parts by Frank Zamboni, a California rink owner. From 1950 he built it on Jeep...

Q 03/05

What kind of aircraft delivered jeeps to Allied airborne troops during the D-Day invasion?

A) Helicopters

B) Seaplanes

C) Gliders

D) Airships

Answer · why

C) Gliders

Gliders such as the American Waco and the British Horsa were big enough to take a jeep inside. That gave lightly armed airborne troops their own trans...

Q 04/05

What was the 'Go Devil', the feature that set Willys's jeep prototype apart from its rivals in 1940?

A) Its suspension

B) Its gearbox

C) Its winch

D) Its engine

Answer · why

D) Its engine

Its engine: chief engineer Barney Roos had reworked a modest Willys car engine into the most powerful unit in any of the three rival prototypes. That ...

Q 05/05

Which carmaker was brought in as a second supplier of wartime jeeps, building them to the Willys design?

A) Chevrolet

B) Nash

C) Ford

D) Dodge

Answer · why

C) Ford

Ford built well over a quarter of a million jeeps to Willys's drawings and stamped a script F on many of its parts. One Ford idea became standard on t...