Q 01/05

John M. Studebaker bankrolled the family firm with money earned in Gold Rush California making what?

A) Wheelbarrows

B) Covered wagons

C) Sluice boxes

D) Pickaxes

Answer · why

A) Wheelbarrows

Wheelbarrows for gold miners earned him $8,000 at Placerville and the nickname Wheelbarrow Johnny. He took the money home in 1858 to expand his brothe...

Q 02/05

Studebaker spelled out its name at its Indiana proving ground, readable from the air, using what?

A) Whitewashed rocks

B) Painted oil drums

C) Floodlights

D) Pine trees

Answer · why

D) Pine trees

Pine trees planted in the late 1930s still spell STUDEBAKER across what is now a county park, and the living sign is listed on the National Register o...

Q 03/05

Which beer brand's famous horse-drawn hitch pulls wagons that Studebaker built around 1900?

A) Schlitz

B) Budweiser

C) Old Milwaukee

D) Yuengling

Answer · why

B) Budweiser

Budweiser's hitch wagons are Studebakers from about 1900, when the firm ran the largest buggy and wagon works in the world.

Q 04/05

In which 1979 film does Fozzie Bear drive Kermit across America in a 1951 Studebaker?

A) The Muppet Movie

B) The Great Muppet Caper

C) Follow That Bird

D) The Muppets Take Manhattan

Answer · why

A) The Muppet Movie

The Muppet Movie used two 1951 Studebaker sedans. One, steered by an operator hidden in the trunk watching a video monitor, is now on display at the S...

Q 05/05

Which Studebaker model name, meant to imply it set the standard for rivals, was dropped in 1937?

A) Chancellor

B) President

C) Dictator

D) Commander

Answer · why

C) Dictator

Dictator was chosen in 1927 to say the car dictated the standard that other makes would have to follow. Overseas the same model was sold as the Direct...