Hollywood on Wheels: Cars and the Movies Trivia Quiz

You drive a car, and you love the movies. That makes you the perfect candidate to take the Hollywood on Wheels: Cars and the Movies Trivia Quiz, an original quiz found only on Kevin Nelson, Writer. Gentlemen and gentle ladies, start your engines! (Answers are here.)

1. Clint Eastwood’s latest (and very good) movie, Gran Torino, now out on DVD, revolves around a ’72 Gran Torino. What car manufacturer made the Gran Torino?
2. Name the blonde beauty who drove the white T-bird in American Graffiti and who later starred in “Three’s Company” and became a spokesperson for Thighmaster.
3. In “Bullitt” in the greatest car chase ever, Steve McQueen drives a green Mustang Cobra GT, seen above. What car driven by the bad guys challenges him?
4. Name the blue-eyed handsome car lover who raced cars, starred in the racing movie “Winning, and voiced Doc Hudson in Cars. (Hint: His picture also appears on spaghetti sauce jars.)
5. The classic James Bond car is the Aston Martin. Did Sean Connery as Bond first drive one in Dr. No, From Russia With Love, or Goldfinger?
6. Ian Fleming, the author of the Bond novels, wrote a children’s story about a car that flies. What was the name of the movie based upon this story?
7. The Love Bug’s name was what?
8. The name of the imported Japanese youth car trend popularized in The Fast and the Furious. (Hint: If you had a Steinway that sounded awful, you would need to call a piano….)
9. James Dean was killed in 1955 driving what car?
10. Clark Gable hunted, fished, dated the most beautiful women on the planet, and drove and raced fast Duesenbergs. Name the High Noon hero and Gable’s great screen rival of the 1930s who did all those things too.
11. What hot-bodied Chevy marque is the automobile star of this summer’s new Transformers movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?
12. The ring in “Gone in Sixty Seconds” stole cars. What actor played the leader of the ring, Memphis Raines?
13. George Thorogood and the Destroyers punch out the opening song for Christine, a movie based on a story by Stephen King about an evil car. Name that bad-ass song.
14. In Witness, Harrison Ford was fixing what car in the barn when he romanced Kelly McGillis to the tune of Wonderful World (Don’t Know Much) by Sam Cooke?
15. Name the silent era comedian and producer credited with originating the car chase in the movies with his slapstick band of Keystone Kops.

Questions too hard? Too easy? Coming in our next installment: Hollywood on Wheels Part 2: Cars and Television Trivia Quiz. Preview question: Fill in the blank of this classic cop comedy: Car …., Where Are You?

Kevin Nelson is the author of the upcoming Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 M.P.H.: The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile, to be published in November 2009 by Heyday Books and California Historical Society Press.