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1. 1 Easy

   What do the initials BMW stand for in English?

   Answer: Bavarian Motor Works

   Why: The roundel is not a propeller: its blue and white are Bavaria's colours, reversed because trademark law barred using state arms.

2. 2 Medium

   What caused Aston Martin sports cars to carry the letters DB in their model names?

   Answer: To honor owner David Brown

   Why: David Brown bought Aston Martin after seeing a newspaper ad, paying £20,500 for the struggling automaker in 1947.

3. 3 Hard

   The Citroën logo represents what type of mechanical part?

   Answer: Double helical gears

   Why: In 1900 André Citroën bought the rights to wooden V toothed gears he saw in Poland, and his first cars carried the twin chevrons from 1919.

4. 4 Easy

   Before manufacturing luxury cars and motorcycles, what product did BMW originally produce during World War I?

   Answer: Aircraft engines

   Why: The Versailles treaty banned German aero engines, so BMW built railway air brakes; its first motorcycle came in 1923, its first car in 1928.

5. 5 Medium

   What was the loudest sound in a Rolls-Royce at sixty mph?

   Answer: The electric clock

   Why: The line ran as a David Ogilvy ad in 1958; he took it from a road test quote by the technical editor of The Motor magazine.

6. 6 Hard

   Horacio Pagani worked at which company before founding his own brand?

   Answer: Lamborghini

   Why: Refused an autoclave for the Countach Evoluzione's carbon fibre, he took a bank loan in 1987, bought his own and left in 1991.