::: DRO ::: Departments - Quiz

quiz.gif (6688 bytes)

KING KENNY QUIZ

2/21/05

In keeping with the theme of "one racer, one quiz," we present this month's second quiz. The subject is Kenny Bernstein, arguably the most influential "post Garlits" Nitro Professional of them all. Truly one who took the sport to the proverbial Next Level, Bernstein must be given his due. So here is an eight-pack of Big Bud quiz questions, as only DRO can provide.

1.) COUNTING NATIONAL EVENT WINS, BIG BUD SHOOTOUTS AND INVITATIONAL, KING KENNY HAD 75 FUNNY CAR AND TOP FUEL WINS. HOW MANY NON-NHRA WINS DID HE HAVE?

2.) BEFORE BECOMING A DRAG RACING ENTREPRENEUR, BERNSTEIN WAS A SUCCESS IN A DIFFERENT LINE OF WORK? WHAT WAS IT?

3.) A.) DATE AND PLACE OF KK'S FIRST NHRA START?
B.) WHAT ELIMINATOR DID HE COMPETE IN?
C.) WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME?

4.) NAME THE TIME PERIOD BERNSTEIN ALSO MAINTAINED A NASCAR TEAM, AND HOW MANY RACES DID HIS DRIVERS WIN?

5.) WHAT YEAR, AND AT WHAT TRACK DID KENNY BREAK THE 300 MPH BARRIER?

6.) WHERE AND WHEN DID KK AND BRANDON B RECORD NHRA'S FIRST EVER "FATHER AND SON" DOUBLE WIN?

7.) WHEN AND WHERE DID HE RECORD HIS FIRST NHRA NATIONAL EVENT WIN? AND WHO DID HE BEAT IN THE FINAL?

8.) WHEN AND WHERE DID HE RECORD HIS FIRST NHRA TOP FUEL WIN? AND WHO DID HE BEAT IN THE FINAL?

Full name:

Email address:

February's First Winner

Congratulations to CLARENCE POWELL, February's first quiz winner with only one wrong!

1.) He was the first and only black racer to win a hot rod association national event Funny Car title. D.) Tony MacCallum

2.) In the mid-seventies, L.A. racers Eddie and son Rodney Flournoy bought a '74 Mustang Funny Car and campaigned into the very early 1980s. The race car came from ... A) Jerry Ruth

3.) In the mid-1970s, Joe Fisher of the famed Christie & Disher Super Stock team and (for a while) Sox & Martin, drove a Plymouth Pro Stocker for what fairly well know black Pro Stock racer? D.) Bill & Shorty Palmer

4.) This famous boxer once raced in IHRA Super Gas competition until his manager and promoter advised him to cease and desist. B.) Thomas Hearns

5.) This talented mechanic was based in San Diego, Calif., and worked on a number of Top Fuel dragsters in the 1960s and early 1970s, most notably Bill Leavitt's "Quickie Too" and the Croshier-Baltes-Lavato entries. He was A.) Harold Miller

Whaddaya Know? (trivia quiz) [2/8/05]