A Transport Test

1 Who did the New Yardbirds become?

2 Sherbet is cockney rhyming slang for what mode of transport?

3 Which politician is nicknamed Two Jags?

4 What made its first journey in 1883 from Paris to Constantinople?

5 Which group had a hit with the song Combine Harvester?

6 Which football club are nicknamed The Railwaymen?

7 Which model of Ford car was named after a hunter in Greek mythology?

8 Which model of Ford car did Steve McQueen drive in the film Bullitt?

9 Which children’s duo sailed aboard the SS Melodymaker?

10 What are the names of the reserve crews in the university boat race?

11 In the Bible what was said to be, 300 cubits long and 30 cubits high?

12 What model of car is also a musical instruction meaning quickly?

13 Which song features the lyric, “dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans”?

14 Who piloted Fireball XL5?

15 Which TV series saw Brian Blessed playing PC Fancy Smith?

16 MRS is the airport code for which city?

17 What is the actual colour of the black box flight recorder in commercial aircraft?

18 What, opened in 1901, runs from Moscow to Vladivostok?

19 Which South American city was designed in the shape of an aeroplane?

20 Which British city is home to the National Lifeboat Museum?

21 Which duo are the subjects of a statue at Heathrow airport?

22 What is the name of the dragon in Ivor the Engine?

23 What is the name of the ship captained by Cut Throat Jake in the Captain Pugwash cartoons?

24 Which actress drove the car that killed Victor Meldrew?

25 Which character invented Supercar?

ANSWERS TO TRANSPORT TEST

1 Led Zeppelin
2 Cab, sherbet dab
3 John Prescott
4 The Orient Express
5 The Wurzels
6 Crewe Alexandra
7 Orion
8 Mustang
9 Pinky and Perky
10 Goldie and Isis
11 Noah’s Ark
12 Allegro
13 Crocodile Rock
14 Steve Zodiac
15 Z Cars
16 Marseilles
17 Orange
18 Trans-Siberian Railway
19 Brasilia
20 Bristol
21 Alcock and Brown
22 Idris
23 The Flying Dustman
24 Hannah Gordon
25 Professor Popkiss