"Grand" Central (Track 2) Trivia Quiz

Answer: British Grand Prix

Officially known as the Grand Prix of the Royal Automobile Club, the first ever British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands on August 7, 1926 . The winners were Robert Sénéchal and Louis Wagner. The car they drove was a Delage 15 S 8.

The start of the first Eifel Grand Prix on the Nurburgring was on June 3, 1934; it was won by Manfred von Brauchitsch. The first Austrian Grand Prix was held at the Salzburgring circuit in 1971. Giacomo Agostini won by more than a lap from Keith Turner, the second-place finisher. The first Styrian Grand Prix was held exactly one week after the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix on the same track. The season had been rescheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Lewis Hamilton won the race.

Answer: Switzerland

Head of State Henri's full name is Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume, the eldest son of Grand Duke Jean and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, France to the south, and Germany to the northeast and east.

Answer: Jackie Stewart

Jeremy Clarkson is a British journalist and broadcaster specializing in the subjects of motoring and the history and engineering of driving. Richard Hammond is also a British TV personality, writer and journalist. James May is also a television journalist, and all three men migrated from the show "Top Gear" over to "The Grand Tour."
Jackie Stewart, nicknamed "The Flying Scot" was a Formula One driver from 1965 to 1973. He's the star of a terrific Heineken "When You Drive, Never Drink" commercial.

Answer: The Grand Inquisitor

"The Grand Inquisitor" is a poem (actually, a story within a story) inside Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel in Chapter 5 of "The Brothers Karamazov"(1879-1880). The character Ivan Karamazov recites it, and through it raises his own doubts about the existence of a personal and benevolent God. In the scene he narrates the poem to his brother Alexei, a young monk.
In "Star Wars Rebels" the Grand Inquisitor (voiced by actor Jason Isaacs) is one of the Jedi Temple Guards who became the most powerful hunter of Jedis. He followed the orders of Lord Sith.

Answer: General Motors

The Pontiac Grand Am and Pontiac Grand Prix are outputs of the Pontiac division of General Motors. The Grand Am debuted in 1973, aimed at combining European styling with American power. Its name even slyly pointed that way, combining "Grand Prix" with "Trans Am." The Pontiac Grand Prix coupe models were produced from 1962 to 2002, and the sedans were were made from 1988 to 2008.

Answer: Horses

First run in 1839, the Grand National is a horse race held annually in England at the Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool. It is a 4-mile steeplechase race involving fence jumping and leaping over ditches. The race was not run in 2020 due to the coronavirus. The most famous figures of the race through history include the horse Red Rum who won three times; the horse Manifesto has run it eight times.

Answer: free diving

Friends since childhood, Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr) and Enzo (Jean Reno) have become avid participants in the sport of free diving. Jacques's father died at sea when Jacques was a young boy, and Jacques has followed his father in pursuit of dangerous activities at sea. Jacques has developed an astounding ability to control his heart rate and breathing rate underwater, making his vital signs mimic those of dolphins. Enzo convinces Jacques to compete with him in a diving contest to see who can dive deeper without the aid of scuba gear. Since this is a romance film, Johanna (Rosanna Arquette) enters the picture as an American insurance investigator whom Jacques falls in love with and finds himself needing to choose between her and the allure of the ocean.

Answer: The Neal Morse Band

The Neal Morse Band is the only progressive rock band in the list; the others are all southern rock bands. The follow-up album by this band was called "The Similitude of a Dream" and was released just one year later. What pleases me to no end about this album, is that they recorded a 10 minute and 52 second version of my favorite song, "MacArthur Park", the 1968 epic classic written by the great American songwriter Jimmy Webb, and first recorded by British actor Richard Harris.

Answer: Japan

The shrine is dedicated to Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess. Amaterasu is a major Japanese deity, also likened to the god of the universe. Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, and the shrine is located in Mie Prefecture in the Honshu region of Japan. The style of the shrine emphasizes simplicity and antiquity, resembling in some ways early Japanese rice granaries.

Answer: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has had the singular mission for sixty years now, of making significant breakthroughs in the technology necessary for national security. The notion of DARPA dates back to the 1957 launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union.