Motor Mouth Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lube-a-Lot

The Number 69, Lube-a-Lot car belongs to Dickie Bonnano (otherwise known as Spanky) and, in turn, belongs to Huevo Racing. Yum Yum Snack Cakes is the sponsor of the team that Gobbles works for, Stiller Racing is who Hooker and Alex work for and Nutsy (who is mentioned later in the book) drives for Krank's Beer.

Answer: A kajillion

The fruit warehouse is owned by Felicia and her husband and is one of several owned by them. It is only used occasionally for storage of fruit but it mostly lays empty and unused, the perfect place to hide a 'borrowed' NASCAR hauler.

Answer: A shrink-wrapped dead body

Alex was in the hauler looking for a jumpsuit so she wouldn't get her clothes dirty when she started dismantling the cars stored in the hauler. The shrink-wrapped body turned out to be Oscar Huevo, head honcho of Huevo Racing. Felicia noted that the "shrink-wrapped corpse looks a lot like 180 pounds of raw chicken parts packaged for supermarket bulk sales", except for maybe the bullet hole in the middle of his forehead.

Answer: They accidentally left Hooker's dog in the hauler

After stripping down the truck so it was unrecognisable, and dismantling both cars stored inside the hauler, Alex and Hooker drove the hauler to a mall and left it there for the Huevo team to find. They realised the next morning that they had left Hooker's dog (Beans, the Saint Bernard) asleep in the hauler.

Answer: In the gear knob

After finding a destroyed chip on the cover of the engine, Alex accidentally found the 'more important' chip in the gear knob when she dismantled the car. Alex and Hooker took the chip home to North Carolina with them for one of Alex's acquaintances to look at.

Answer: A new computer problem and cheesecake

After looking at the two chips (both the broken one found on the engine of the Huevo Racing car and the in-tact one found in the gear knob) Sikulski figured out what they could be hypothetically used for (traction control, which is banned in NASCAR racing). The more important (or "scary") chip was the one found in the gear knob as it could be activated by anyone outside the car via a remote control.

Answer: In the trunk of a Lexus at a shopping mall

Alex and Hooker saw two 'bad guys' leaving Bernie Miller's house. They were acting quite suspiciously so they followed them to a mall where they found Bernie in the trunk, full of bullet holes. Further on in the story, they find him again buried in a shallow grave near a warehouse that Hooker owns.

Answer: The pool table

Ralph's guest room was unavailable as he was re-building a Harley in there because he had no garage. Alex and Hooker started out double-decker on the lounge but when Beans (the dog) jumped on top as well, it was too much for them to handle. Alex and Hooker ended up spending the night on the pool table.

Answer: She thought that Beans, the dog, ate the chip

Felicia thought that Beans had eaten the chip when she had left it on the kitchen bench. Rosa, Felicia and Alex needed to wait until Beans was ready to go to the 'bathroom' before they could get the chip back. A box of prunes helped although they did originally have to be hidden in a meatball sub for Beans to eat them. It turns out that Beans hadn't actually eaten the chip; it had fallen on Felicia's floor.

Answer: She was Oscar Huevo's soon-to-be ex-wife

Suzanne was Oscar Huevo's soon-to-be ex-wife and she was really angry that someone had beaten her to it and killed Oscar. She also thought that Ray (Oscar's brother) was defrauding the Huevo company and wouldn't leave anything for her kids. Suzanne and Itsy Poo (Suzanne's miniature dog) were quite helpful in giving Alex information and, in the end, being one of the 'good guys'.