DRO - Quiz - 12/9/03

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12/9/03

THE LOADED QUESTION-er

Jeffersonian...

An off-the-beaten-path Christmas period quiz.

"Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock" ... was sung by and you
fill in the answer after you've sifted through four other likely suspects in
this, the fifth annual Dragracingonline.com Xmas Xuiz. (I spelled it right; I like being silly) No, not all the queries involve rock n' roll classics or for
that matter, Xmas. Most of them deal with ... TUH DAAAHHH ... drag racing.

1. "Jingle Bell Rock" came out on Decca Records in December of 1957 and was recorded by:
A.) Bobby Vee B.) Bobby Helms C.) Bill Haley (and his Comets)	D.) Buddy Holly E.) Domenico Modugno
2. I asked this one last year. No, you may not hit the "Archive" button that will take you right to the answer. Which of the following racer was born on Christmas Day?
A.) Rickie Smith B.) Larry Dixon Jr. C.) Tony Bartone	D.) Michael Bartone E.) Frank Manzo
3. This year, "Racers For Christ" is celebrating their "WHAT" anniversary?
A.) 25th B.) 20th	C.) 15th D.) They aren't.
4. Which one of the following sentences is false?
A.) Don Prudhomme drove "T.V. Tommy" Ivo's four-engine Buick dragster to a Top Eliminator win at Fremont in 1961. B.) The late black racer Tony McCallum won an IHRA National event in Funny Car. C.) Chris Karamesines, despite 40 years of Top Fuel drag racing, has never won an NHRA National event.	D.) The famed (and late) John "the Zookeeper" Mulligan won only one NHRA national event Top Fuel title. E.) All of them. F.) None of them.
5. We may see the first 4.3-second Top Fuel run in 2004, but which racer was the first in the 5.3s?
A.) Gary Beck B.) Don Garlits C.) Gary Ormsby	D.) Richard Tharp E.) Mark Oswald
6. True or false. No Pro Stock racer has ever, as in EVER, won an NHRA National event in their first try.
True	False
7. Which of the following racers did not win SIMULTANEOUSLY (i.e., the same year) hot rod associations in the same year.
A.) Lee Shepherd B.) Mark Oswald	C.) Don Garlits D.) Shirley Muldowney
8. Who was the 16th and final member of the Cragar Four-Second Club?
A.) Lori Johns B.) Jimmy Nix	C.) Don Prudhomme D.) Kenny Bernstein
9. Since this is the Holiday season, I, as in the second question of this exam, am going to ask a question that I'm relatively sure I've asked before. So ... anyone caught hitting the button to sneak in the answer gets a 3 a.m. visit from the 37th Street Fruitown Gangster Crips. Former U.S. Open Golf Champion and color commentator Ken Venturi had his name on this 1970's Pro Stocker. This person was...
A.) Don Grotheer B.) Lynn Harrison C.) Jerry Janke	D.) Mickey Mills E.) Reher & Morrison
10. Back to the music, hombres. And with a Christmas theme. Which one (as in only) of the following Christmas/December standards made number #1 on the Billboard magazine Top 100 record charts.
A.) Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas - Commander Cody B.) Santa Came Home Drunk - Nathaniel Eatmon and the Cadillac Baby Specials C.) If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard D.) Good King Wenceslaus - The Butthole Surfers E.) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Jackson 5	F.) My Mom and Santa Claus - George Jones G.) Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy - Buck Owens H.) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee I.) Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy J.) My War - Black Flag

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Last Month's Quiz

The winner is Mike Cornelius, with only three answers correct! C'mon...you can do better than that!

This is not a multiple choicer. Last year's Top Fuel runner-up provided one of the biggest upsets in NHRA World Finals class history by just being in the final. A super, super long shot. Not only that, but even though he lost, he ran quicker in the final. The winner ran 4.76, he ran 4.73, and "he" is? Hey, it was a year ago, you should know this. Answer: Yuichi Oyama
The first four-second Top Fuel run in World Finals history was made in 1989 by this guy. B.) Frank Bradley
Bennie Osborn, Don Garlits and Joe Amato all won back-to-back World Finals Top Fuel titles. Name the only racer to win three consecutive World Finals Top Fuel titles.
A.) Darrell Gwynn (1985-1987)
How many times has Pro Stock Bike racer Angelle Savoie won
the World Finals? A.) 1
In 1971, NHRA's last race of the season was the Supernationals at Ontario Motor Speedway, not the World Finals at Amarillo. At the 1971 event, the Top Fuel finalists staged a near minute-long "burndown." One of the participants was John Wiebe, the other was: D.) Hank Johnson

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