Q 01/05

David Prowse, Britain's Green Cross Code Man who taught children to cross roads, played which Star Wars character?

A) Emperor Palpatine

B) Boba Fett

C) Obi-Wan Kenobi

D) Darth Vader

Answer · why

D) Darth Vader

Darth Vader was Prowse inside the suit, with another actor's voice dubbed over his West Country accent. Prowse played the Green Cross Man in road safe...

Q 02/05

Early trials of the high-mounted third brake light, which halved rear-end collisions, mainly used which vehicles?

A) Taxicabs

B) Motorbikes

C) Tractors

D) Caravans

Answer · why

A) Taxicabs

Taxicabs fitted with the extra lamp were hit from behind about half as often as those without. The United States and Canada went on to require it on e...

Q 03/05

Whose fatal 1935 motorcycle crash in Dorset led neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns to study crash helmets for riders?

A) Sir Malcolm Campbell

B) Lawrence of Arabia

C) Rudyard Kipling

D) Sir Henry Segrave

Answer · why

B) Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia, the soldier and writer T. E. Lawrence, was thrown over the handlebars while swerving around two boys. Cairns, one of his doctors, ...

Q 04/05

Nobel physicist Arthur Compton designed which traffic-calming device in 1953 to slow cars passing his university?

A) Rumble strips

B) Chicanes

C) Speed bumps

D) Mini-roundabouts

Answer · why

C) Speed bumps

Speed bumps, which Compton called traffic control bumps, were his answer to motorists racing past Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis...

Q 05/05

Which Hollywood star filmed a safe-driving interview with actor Gig Young shortly before dying in a 1955 Porsche crash?

A) James Dean

B) Montgomery Clift

C) Jayne Mansfield

D) Grace Kelly

Answer · why

A) James Dean

James Dean shot the spot in a cowboy outfit during a break from filming Giant, toying with a lasso while he told viewers to drive carefully. He was ki...