Tires by BruceM

Champion(s):

colleenw
I came, I ate, I left


Runner(s)-Up:

MatthewsP
Quiz Free or Die


Quiz Description

They're what you see when you get thrown under the bus.

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Questions:

Cette carte est de quel jeu? S'il vous plaît donner son nom en français.

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Mille Bornes

Which conservative activist tweeted a dubious claim in August 2017 that her tire had been slashed?

She has been banned by both Uber and Lyft for complaining about Muslim drivers. After Twitter suspended her account she handcuffed herself to Twitter's NYC headquarters. Now she is running for Congress against Lois Frankel (D-FL).

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Laura Loomer

What self-taught American chemist received a patent in 1844 for vulcanized rubber?

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Charles Goodyear

The vulcanization of natural rubber typically features which element, whose chains replace carbon-hydrogen bonds? This nonmetal is solid and bright yellow at room temperature.

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sulfur

What five-letter word does Peter Billingsley slowly enunciate, after Darren McGavin's elbow sends nuts flying (just after this still frame) in the tire changing scene of A Christmas Story? Note that (as the narrator specifically points out) the word we want is not the word Ralphie actually says.

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fudge

What TV sitcom character is the younger brother of the proprietor of the Dr. Tire Store, the biggest tire supplier in Texas? (They also offer custom rims.)

This character visits Dr. Tire to ask his brother (played by Jerry O'Connell) to attend his wedding. His and his brother's surname is also the name of a tire-selling Fortune 500 company based in Findlay, Ohio.

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Sheldon Cooper

Which tire brand introduced a TV ad campaign in the 1980s featuring babies and the tag line, "Because so much is riding on your tires"?

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Michelin

Which country is home to both Hankook Tire, presenting sponsor of Major League Baseball's 2018 wild card games, and Doosan, presenting sponsor of the Division Series?

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South Korea

Thanks to recycling there are now fewer than 100 million stockpiled tires in the U.S., down from billions a few decades ago.

Tire Mountain, once North America's largest tire monofill, is in Weld County in which U.S. state? CH2E now owns and operates that facility about 20 miles south of Greeley.

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Colorado

First and last name required.

"With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country."

The "necklaces" in that quote are tires, put around the necks of political enemies and doused in gasoline to burn the victims alive. Which South African revolutionary seemed to endorse "necklacing" with that 1986 quote, even as the African National Congress condemned the practice?

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Winnie (Madikizela-)Mandela

"Mud on the Tires" was a 2003 country #1 hit for which singer? "Whiskey Lullaby," his duet with Alison Krauss, is the third single from his Mud on the Tires album.

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Brad Paisley

What word refers to loose clothing worn by soldiers performing menial, noncombat tasks? This word once described those chores themselves. By other definitions this word is synonymous with the name of this quiz.

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fatigues