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11/9/05

QUIZZICALLY SPEAKING

Hey, don't you just love NHRA? Well, maybe not -- but you do have to give the Glendora OG's their due. 2005 was a very good year for them, as anyone who followed the NHRA circus, er, national event season well knows. All the points races were killer, and someone besides John Force won the Funny car points race. That don't happen every day!

With that in mind, let us tickle your frontal lobes with these trivia questions from across the years, as they relate to NHRA drag racing. Pop in a Diamond P tape, front it with a Steve Evans "Be there" tape, and get to work!

#1 NHRA recently signed an "historic" TV extension with ESPN as an exclusive broadcast provider. How many networks, total, have hosted NHRA drag racing?
A Three B Four	C Five D Six
#2 The need for downforce in drag racing is a given, particularly in Top Fuel. At the 1963 Winter Nationals, Don Garlits took a bold step forward, adding an overhead wing to his rail. What number Swamp Rat wore the wing?
A SW 3 B SW 5	C SW 7 D SW 9
#3 Before rev limiters, when all things were possible, the 4.40 barrier in Top Fuel was considered the "Last Frontier." Who ran the first T/F 4.40?
A Blaine Johnson B Kenny Bernstein	C Larry Dixon D Joe Amato
#4 Given the very recent loss of his Funny Car Eliminator throne, let us pause for a moment of quiet reflection on John Force, the most dominant drag racer of our time. OK now, snap out of it and tell us what year he won his first race in Funny Car.
A 1985 B 1987	C 1988 D 1989
#5 Still on a Force note, The Man is one of the few drag racers able to make the Outside World aware of his existence. A while back, he became the first drag racer to be voted Driver of the Year. What year did this happen?
A 1994 B 1996	C 1997 D 1998

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Congratulations to our October quiz winner, Steve McDonald! And now, here are the October quiz answers.

OCTOBER QUIZ ANSWERS

1.) You can’t miss this personality-laden drag strip. All photos shot from the right side of this Southern course, show a sheer dirt cliff where the left-side photographers area or grandstands should be. It is c.) Lasater Mountain (Coalburg, Alabama)

2.) One of the upper Midwest’s most historic tracks, you could tell instantly where you were without a caption. The right side of this roughly 45 year-old course was solid advertising billboards with no bleachers. Nitro cars and just about every kind of track conveyance stretched its legs here. a.) Great Lakes Dragway (Union Grove, Wisc.)

3.) A Hollywood-style three-story, glass-encased tower and top end scoreboards in the late 1960s describes b.) Orange County Int’l Raceway

4.) A state-of-the-art dragstrip hosted NHRA and IHRA national events until it literally sunk into the sand in the mid-1970s. (Hint - It didn’t sink totally or all at once.) a.) Dallas Int’l Motor Speedway

5.) The short-lived United Hot Rod Association of Gil Kohn and Ed Eaton ran many of its national events at Kansas City Int’l Raceway, Detroit Dragway, and this East Coast Emporium. a.) New York National (Center Moriches, L.I.)

Whaddaya Know? (trivia quiz) [10/7/05]