Q 01/05

The word 'tractor' comes from the Latin verb 'trahere', which means what?

A) To plough

B) To push

C) To pull

D) To turn

Answer · why

C) To pull

To pull. A century before any farm machine took the name, 'tractors' were a quack cure: a pair of metal rods drawn over the skin, sold to pull rheumat...

Q 02/05

In Pixar's 'Cars', the tractors in the fields outside Radiator Springs behave like which animals?

A) Cows

B) Pigs

C) Sheep

D) Horses

Answer · why

A) Cows

Cows. Mater takes Lightning McQueen 'tractor tipping', a send-up of cow tipping, and the pair end up chased off by Frank, a huge combine harvester who...

Q 03/05

Which British tractor maker bought the sports-car firm Aston Martin in 1947?

A) David Brown

B) Harry Ferguson

C) Herbert Austin

D) William Morris

Answer · why

A) David Brown

David Brown. He answered a newspaper classified offering a 'High Class Motor Business', paid for it with his gear and tractor fortune, and put his ini...

Q 04/05

The pioneering Hart-Parr tractor company was organised in 1901 in which town?

A) Waterloo, Iowa

B) Springfield, Illinois

C) Charles City, Iowa

D) Racine, Wisconsin

Answer · why

C) Charles City, Iowa

Charles City, Iowa. It was Charles Hart's birthplace: when the partners outgrew Madison, Wisconsin, his father talked local businessmen into backing t...

Q 05/05

In which state did John Froelich build the first successful forward-and-reverse gasoline tractor in 1892?

A) Ohio

B) Illinois

C) Iowa

D) Minnesota

Answer · why

C) Iowa

Iowa. Froelich was fed up with steam engines that threatened to set dry fields alight, and that autumn his gasoline machine threshed 72,000 bushels of...