Grand Prix Rejects 2015-16 Off-season Rolling Trivia Quiz!

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 08 Jan 2016, 01:15

novitopoli wrote:Oh wait...Minardi was Motori Moderni's works team back then!

Correct.

To be honest the real answer was Scuderia Milano, but otherwise we would be here all day

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 08 Jan 2016, 13:18

Wouldnt Scuderia Milano who raced in 1950/ 51 also count.

So who gets to ask the next question

Post by **Nuppiz** » 08 Jan 2016, 13:32

Would it be too much asked if people stopped making questions where the answer is a really long list of names/places? Because we've had many questions in a row where someone has got nearly all answers right, then someone comes up with the one last missing piece, and everyone is confused who should be asking the next question?

Also I'm asking people to refrain from just going on Wikipedia/other websites and digging up the answer from there. I don't think this was meant to be a contest of who can spot the question first and find the answer from the web the fastest, this is supposed to be a test on everyone's base knowledge.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 08 Jan 2016, 16:20

Nuppiz wrote:Would it be too much asked if people stopped making questions where the answer is a really long list of names/places? Because we've had many questions in a row where someone has got nearly all answers right, then someone comes up with the one last missing piece, and everyone is confused who should be asking the next question?

Also I'm asking people to refrain from just going on Wikipedia/other websites and digging up the answer from there. I don't think this was meant to be a contest of who can spot the question first and find the answer from the web the fastest, this is supposed to be a test on everyone's base knowledge.

I agree it is a little confusing and usually the last piece named is the most obscure. You could say that requires the most knowledge to do, but I'm of the opinion that the fairest way to go about this (and what I've been doing) would be to simply award the point to the person who named the most without repeating previous answers, which in the case of the last question is novitopoli.

And yes, I would discourage people from using Wikipedia, but it's something we can't really police, sadly. What's worse is questions where you pretty much have to use Wikipedia to answer, unless you have an absurdly good memory.

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 09 Jan 2016, 22:30

Well, since it's my turn, now for something completely different:

Which circuits have hosted both the Formula 1 World Championship and - at least part of - the Road Cycling World Championships?

(I repeat: non-championship races don't count.)

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 10 Jan 2016, 08:48

Nurburgring, Sochi, Brands Hatch, Pescara maybe?

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 10 Jan 2016, 22:12

Nürburgring certainly and also I can recall Zolder.

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 10 Jan 2016, 23:21

So that rule of not having questions with list answers lasted a long time :facepalm:

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 10 Jan 2016, 23:37

AustralianStig wrote:So that rule of not having questions with list answers lasted a long time

On the plus side it's not a long list, just very hard to determine. I've had a look at the list of venues and some include cities that also have an F1 circuit either there or nearby, but I can't find anything on whether the circuits themselves played host to (a part of) the event. What's worse is it looks like we have a tie so far...

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 10 Jan 2016, 23:43

Nurburgring must have held it at some point . When i think of cycling the first thing that come into my head is France, due to the Tour De France so i will say Reims, Rouen and Charade maybe

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 10 Jan 2016, 23:55

Nürburgring, Zolder and Reims are right, just 3 left now.

As for the "list answers" thing, I don't find this question to be quite comparable to stuff like "name all the drivers who competed in both F1 and DTM", as it is neither a huge list, nor something you can easily find on Wikipedia (not the complete answer, at least...), just something more challenging and "out of the box", which I had already long had in mind

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 11 Jan 2016, 01:11

And now it's a three-way tie :shock:

Post by **tommykl** » 11 Jan 2016, 06:17

Let me have a go...

Montréal
Albert Park
Imola?

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 11 Jan 2016, 08:01

Undulating circuits....
Zandvoort?
Old Spa?
La Sarthe?

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 11 Jan 2016, 10:05

We still trying to find some more

Spa
Monza
Bremgarten
Magny Cours
Dijon
Paul ricard

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 11 Jan 2016, 10:18

I've decided that in the event of another question ending in a tie I will ask a separate question to determine who will get the point and the right to ask the next question. Only the people involved in this tiebreak situation are allowed to answer the question.

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 11 Jan 2016, 23:00

Since Bremgarten and Zandvoort are right and 48 hours have passed, looks like there's a tie between peteroli34 and AxelP800...

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 11 Jan 2016, 23:09

Right, for Peteroli and Axel only:

Which reject car was built around the monocoque of an older Renault chassis?

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 11 Jan 2016, 23:22

Simtek wrote:Right, for Peteroli and Axel only:

Which reject car was built around the monocoque of an older Renault chassis?

AGS car in 1986 and `1987 was based on 1983

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 11 Jan 2016, 23:28

peteroli34 wrote:
Simtek wrote:Right, for Peteroli and Axel only:

Which reject car was built around the monocoque of an older Renault chassis?

AGS car in 1986 and `1987 was based on 1983

I was looking for the specific chassis designation, but your answer comes close enough. Yes, the AGS JH21C and its successor the JH22 were both based on Renault's 1983 title challenger, the RE40, but enough of my babbling, you're next

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 11 Jan 2016, 23:33

Simtek wrote:I was looking for the specific chassis designation, but your answer comes close enough. Yes, the AGS JH21C and its successor the JH22 were both based on Renault's 1983 title challenger, the RE40, but enough of my babbling, you're next

I cant remember a bunch of random letters and numbers

What links Bruno Senna with Danny Sullivan, Raul Boesel and Jean Pierre Jarier?

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 12 Jan 2016, 00:31

All four spent several years away from MotorRacing before picking it back up and making it into F1?

MorbidelliObese · Post by **MorbidelliObese** » 12 Jan 2016, 01:05

He was born in the year of their last (or only in Sullivan's case) F1 seasons?

I only thought of this because I was born that year too

EDIT: Right I'm going to be honest I wiki'd the date of the South African GP so if this disqualifies me I'll accept but I had an inkling...he was born on the day of their last GP appearance.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 12 Jan 2016, 01:53

All drove for british teams?

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 12 Jan 2016, 11:39

Sullivan, Boesel and Jarier all had their last race at the 1983 South African Grand Prix, held on 15th October, the day Bruno Senna was born.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 12 Jan 2016, 12:14

pi314159 wrote:Sullivan, Boesel and Jarier all had their last race at the 1983 South African Grand Prix, held on 15th October, the day Bruno Senna was born.

Indeed he was

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 12:46

Hmmm. While Pi certainly answered the question correctly, MorbidelliObese already successfully answered it first, despite admitting to using Wikipedia, but even then he already had an inkling. Since there is no rule against the use of Wikipedia (though I say again it is discouraged, the prize isn't worth it!), I'm giving the point to MorbidelliObese.

MorbidelliObese · Post by **MorbidelliObese** » 12 Jan 2016, 16:29

In his own opinion, what did James Hunt consider his best season in F1 to have been, in terms of his own level of performance?

tBone · Post by **tBone** » 12 Jan 2016, 17:36

MorbidelliObese wrote:In his own opinion, what did James Hunt consider his best season in F1 to have been, in terms of his own level of performance?

1974? That was his final year at Hesketh if I'm right.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 12 Jan 2016, 17:55

His first in f1 maybe so 1973

Post by **Miguel98** » 12 Jan 2016, 18:34

MorbidelliObese wrote:In his own opinion, what did James Hunt consider his best season in F1 to have been, in terms of his own level of performance?

I'm saying 1977.

MorbidelliObese · Post by **MorbidelliObese** » 12 Jan 2016, 19:37

Miguel98 wrote:
MorbidelliObese wrote:In his own opinion, what did James Hunt consider his best season in F1 to have been, in terms of his own level of performance?

I'm saying 1977.

Correct. My "source" for this being some tapes of the early 80s with BBC commentary I've been watching, and on numerous occasions both in 1981, and 1983 that I've just finished watching through, he mentions he believes Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg are driving better as defending champions than the previous year (even if they don't have the silverware to show for it at the end of the year), and each time he does, he says that his best year as a driver was the year after he won the championship.

Post by **Miguel98** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:01

During the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix, Philippe Streiff drove a surprising performance in his AGS. What was his highest position during the race, and what was his position in terms of fastest lap?

Post by **tommykl** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:07

Quite specific...

Having done the lap points championship, I'm fairly sure he ran in the points at one point, so I'll say fifth place. As for fastest laps...8th?

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:16

7th in the race, 4th in FLAP?

Post by **Miguel98** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:25

tommykl wrote:Quite specific...

Having done the lap points championship, I'm fairly sure he ran in the points at one point, so I'll say fifth place. As for fastest laps...8th?

Normal32 wrote:7th in the race, 4th in FLAP?

Tommy got the position, and Normal32 got the fastest lap.

With that, I'll give Simtek the chance to do the tiebreak question

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:26

Right then.

What was the first Grand Prix held behind the Iron Curtain?

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:28

Hungary

EDIT: Rostock

Post by **tommykl** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:29

Simtek wrote:Right then.

What was the first Grand Prix held behind the Iron Curtain?

Well now. The first Grand Prix held in a communist country was the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Buuuuuuuuuuut, the 1959 German Grand Prix was held at AVUS, in West Berlin, which I believe would technically be on the other side of what is generally referred to as the Iron Curtain. So my answer is the 1959 German Grand Prix.

But if you count non-championship races, then the rather less sneaky answer would be the 1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix won by Peter Whitehead.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:32

tommykl wrote:
Simtek wrote:Right then.

What was the first Grand Prix held behind the Iron Curtain?

Well now. The first Grand Prix held in a communist country was the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix.

Buuuuuuuuuuut, the 1959 German Grand Prix was held at AVUS, in West Berlin, which I believe would technically be on the other side of what is generally referred to as the Iron Curtain. So my answer is the 1959 German Grand Prix.

But if you count non-championship races, then the rather less sneaky answer would be the 1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix won by Peter Whitehead.

And the 1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix is correct!