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Automobile Quiz Questions Answers – What is Automobile Engineering?
Automobile Quiz Questions Answers Part 1
1) Mercedes cars belong to which country?
Answer: Germany.
2) What is the expansion of NVH, an abbreviation commonly used in automobile dealings?
Answer: Noise, Vibration and Harshness.
3) What was the rally with which the World Rally Championship opened?
Answer: The Monte Carlo Rally.
4) In which year was the first true Pierce Car made?
Answer: 1901.
5) What are the two essential parts of a vehicle?
Answer: Carriage portion and machine portion.
6) What are the two units of an articulated vehicle?
Answer: Tractor unit and trailer unit.
7) Name the machine portion of the automobile which carries the carriage portion?
Answer: Chassis.
8) Year of manufacture of an automobile is referred to as what?
Answer: Model.
9) Who described the first International Combustion Engine?
Answer: Christiaan Huygens.
10) Who built the first self-propelled road vehicle?
Answer: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.
11) Who built the first American self-propelled steam vehicle?
Answer: Oliver Evans.
12) Who built the first American gasoline powered automobile?
Answer: Charles Duryea and Frank J. Duryea.
13) When was the first electric self-starter installed in the automobile?
Answer: 1911.
14) Who built England’s first full-sized steam carriage built?
Answer: Richard Trevithick.
15) Who introduced the first brake in carriages?
Answer: Walter Hancock.
Top Automotive Engineering Quizzes – General Knowledge
16) Who constructed an Internal Combustion Engine in 1860?
Answer: Etienne Lenoir.
17) Who invented four-stroke engine?
Answer: Nikolaus August Otto and Eugen Langen.
18) What was the fuel used in the first four-stroke vehicle?
Answer: Gas.
19) When was the four-stroke engine invented?
Answer: 1866.
20) Who substituted oil for gas in the four-stroke engine?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler.
21) What factor contributed most to the acceleration of the development of automobile?
Answer: The introduction of Internal Combustion Engines.
22) Who produced a tricycle with an I.C engine 1n 1885-86?
Answer: Karl Benz.
23) Who built the first motor-cycle?
Answer: Gottlieb Daimler.
24) The first four wheeler powered by an I.C engine was built by whom?
Answer: Siegfried Marcus.
25) Who built the first gasoline automobile which incorporated many of the essential features of the modern car?
Answer: Arthur Constantin Krebs.
26) In which year was the Panhard Car designed?
Answer: 1894.
27) What is called the type of body of a car, of which the top is fabric and could be folded down?
Answer: Convertible.
28) What determines the driving thrust (speed) of a vehicle?
Answer: The torque applied at the wheel.
29) What part or device is used to control the speed of a vehicle?
Answer: Accelerator.
30) Name the steel bar which functions by twisting within a vehicle machine?
Answer: Torsion bar.
31) Which car is provided with torsion bars at the front independent suspension system?
Answer: Ambassador.
32) Name the sort of links by means of which leaf springs are connected with chassis frame:
Answer: Spring Shackles.
33) What type of shackle is used in Jeep?
Answer: ‘U’ type.
34) What act as axis for the wheels to spin around?
Answer: Axles.
35) Name axles which contain differential and through which rotary motion is transmitted to the wheels:
Answer: Live axles.
Automobile Quiz Questions Answers Part 2
36) Name the axles which do not contain differential:
Answer: Dead axles.
37) What are referred to as the legs of the vehicles?
Answer: Wheels.
38) What are the two classifications of wheels with regard to the type of tire?
Answer: Solid tire wheels and pneumatic tire wheels.
39) What is the media between tire, tube and rim to cushion out road shocks in pneumatic tire wheels?
Answer: Air.
40) What are the two classifications of pneumatic tire wheels?
Answer: Tube tire wheels and tubeless tire wheels.
41) What are the components of a pneumatic wheel?
Answer: Tire, tube and valve, flap and rim.
42) What serves as a cover for the tube and protects it from damage?
Answer: Tire.
43) What are the materials used in making the tire?
Answer: Rubber impregnated rayon, nylon and cotton.
44. What transmits the power from the engine through the medium of driving wheels to the road?
Answer: Tire.
45) Why is the tire given a good tread pattern?
Answer: To give it grip on the road surface.
46) The tires are specified to run on recommended inflation pressures by the manufacturers according to certain norms. What are they?
Answer: Size and quality of the tire, load to be imposed upon it.
47) When should the tire pressures be checked, when the tires are cold or heated?
Answer: When they are cold.
48) On the side walls of the tire cover there are several markings. What do they indicate?
Answer: They indicate tire size, ply rating, tire number, tire make etc.
49) What does the ply rating on the tire represent?
Answer: Index of tire strength.
50) What material is the tube made of?
Answer: Rubber.
