Q 01/05

In which German city is Porsche headquartered?

A) Stuttgart

B) Ingolstadt

C) Wolfsburg

D) Munich

Answer · why

A) Stuttgart

The company's factory and museum are in the city's Zuffenhausen district.

Q 02/05

In which year did Ferdinand Porsche found the company, with Adolf Rosenberger and his son-in-law Anton?

A) 1931

B) 1962

C) 1946

D) 1955

Answer · why

A) 1931

The first offices were at Kronenstraße 24 in the city centre; one of the first jobs was designing a people's car for the German government.

Q 03/05

Which mass-market car did Ferdinand Porsche's firm design for the German government in the 1930s?

A) The Opel Kadett

B) The Mercedes 170

C) The DKW F1

D) The Volkswagen Beetle

Answer · why

D) The Volkswagen Beetle

Its military offshoots, the Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen, were built in their tens of thousands during the war.

Q 04/05

Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Maffersdorf, a town in Bohemia that is now part of which country?

A) Slovak Republic

B) Czech Republic

C) Austria

D) Poland

Answer · why

B) Czech Republic

It was part of Austria-Hungary at the time; he only became a naturalised German in 1934.

Q 05/05

What pioneering vehicle did Ferdinand Porsche create at Jakob Lohner & Company in 1901?

A) The first diesel car

B) The first supercharged racer

C) The first petrol-electric hybrid car

D) The first four-wheel-drive tractor

Answer · why

C) The first petrol-electric hybrid car

The Lohner-Porsche Mixte used a Daimler engine to drive a generator feeding electric wheel-hub motors, a series-hybrid layout.