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Free Luxury Car quiz: 76 trivia questions and answers — Rolls-Royce, Bentley & classic marques. Easy to hard, with explained answers. No sign-up.
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From the Delaunay-Belleville that won over Tsar Nicholas II to the Facel-Vega of the 1950s, this quiz traces the golden age of French luxury automobiles: exceptional coachwork, long-vanished marques and artisanal craftsmanship. Can you recognize these elegant machines from another era?
The quiz covers 60 exceptional models from the 1900s to the 1950s: great French houses such as Delage, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago and Hotchkiss, as well as Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Maserati from Italy, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Horch from Germany, and Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Jaguar from Britain. Each question shows the car in a photo: your job is to identify the marque.
This quiz currently has 76 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.
Warm up before the quiz with these 14 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.
Answer: Spirit of Ecstasy. Created in 1911 by Charles Sykes, it was reportedly modelled on Eleanor Thornton. On recent models, it retracts automatically to prevent theft.
Answer: Molsheim. Ettore Bugatti founded his brand there in 1909. After decades in eclipse, Volkswagen revived it in the same place, with the Veyron and then the Chiron.
Answer: Sweden. Founded in 1994 by Christian von Koenigsegg, it is based at a former military airfield. Its logo uses the founder's family coat of arms, and a ghost emblem adorns some models.
Answer: Umbrellas. Slotted into a heated, ventilated compartment to dry, they pop out at the touch of a button. A typical touch from a brand that cares about every detail.
Answer: Famous fighting bulls. Ferruccio Lamborghini, a bullfighting enthusiast, named his cars after renowned breeds or bulls. Murciélago reportedly survived 24 sword strokes in 1879.
Answer: Monégasque driver Louis Chiron. Louis Chiron won many races driving Bugattis in the 1920s-30s. The Veyron honoured driver Pierre Veyron, winner at Le Mans in 1939.
Answer: Argentina. Passionate since childhood, he emigrated to Italy and worked at Lamborghini before founding his brand. His Zonda and Huayra are handmade near Modena.
Answer: The driver sat in the middle, between two passengers. Designed by Gordon Murray, a former F1 engineer, it was the world's fastest production car for several years, at over 380 km/h. Its engine bay was lined with gold, an excellent heat insulator.
Answer: The daughter of Emil Jellinek, a major Daimler customer and dealer. Jellinek raced Daimlers under the pseudonym 'Mercedes', his daughter's name. In 1901, he ordered a series of cars on condition they bore that name.
Answer: David Brown, owner of the brand from 1947. A British industrialist who made tractors and gears, he bought the struggling brand and launched this line. He sold it in 1972, but the initials stayed.
Answer: BMW. After a legal battle with Volkswagen, BMW obtained the Rolls-Royce name and emblem, while Volkswagen kept Bentley. The two former British sister brands thus have rival German owners.
Answer: Italian. Born in Milan in 1881, the son of a furniture designer, he founded his brand in Molsheim, then German territory. He took French nationality in 1946, shortly before his death.
Answer: Peugeot claimed three-digit names with a zero in the middle. Peugeot had used this numbering since 1929 (201, 403…). Porsche replaced the zero with a 1, and the 911 became an icon.
Answer: Volkswagen. Bentley, long tied to Rolls-Royce, was separated from its sister brand in the 1998 takeover. Its cars are still built in Crewe, England.
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