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Automotive history, the veteran/ brass era

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who Patented the World’s First Automobile?

a)

Carl Benz

b)

Mary Anderson

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Charles Kettering and Henry M. Leland

2.

Where was considered the first automotive factory in a place that later became known as the “Motor City”?

a)

Nashville

b)

Lansing

c)

Detroit

d)

Chicago

3.

What year did Ferdinand Porsche debut Austria’s Lohner-Porsche, a radical hybrid car that generated electricity from two small gasoline engines to power its front wheels.

a)

1905

b)

1900

c)

1903

d)

1897

4.

When did Mary Anderson receive a patent for the first windshield wiper?

a)

1915

b)

1900

c)

1905

d)

1903

5.

On October 1, 1908, Henry Ford debuted the first production car, named the model _

(a)  

6.

The (a)   starter was the predecessor to the electric starter

7.

Around 1914, car bodies were made of steel versus wood. What automotive manufacturer introduced their first vehicle to the market on November 14, 1914, which featured what was then a real novelty – an all steel body?

a)

Ford

b)

Dodge

c)

Chevy

d)

Oldsmobile

8.

C.R. Patterson & Sons of Greenfield, Ohio becomes history’s first and only ______ owned car company, joining hundreds of scrappy start-ups as horse-drawn vehicles give way to combustion-engine automobiles

a)

family

b)

Irish

c)

African American

d)

women

9.

When did pioneering American car maker Henry Ford implements the first MOVING automotive assembly line for his Model T, soon trimming its production time from 12.5 hours to 93 minutes.

a)

1913

b)

1900

c)

1908

d)

1903

10.

Which car company was the polar opposite of Henry Ford’s mass-market approach who hand-built luxury cars?

a)

Porsche

b)

Bentley

c)

Jaguar

d)

Rolls Royce