Quiz - rapid fire no googling

[Ignis Fatuus]

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France

Robert Anderson invented a car in Scotland in the 1830s - and it was electric. Unfortunately the electric power station was not invented for another 50 years.

A Frenchman built a self-powered road vehicle before that, run by steam, in the 1770s. He then drove it into a wall, so the French did invent the car accident.

[Mich the Tester]

Worse yet.

He was Belgian.

[Churchill]

Yep and the car was defo USA.

Who the **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

Btw, how many wheels are we talking about?

If it's horseless carriages surely it was Richard Trevithick and his "Puffing Devil"?

[Mich the Tester]

Who th **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

No, look, it's like this. A Belgian bloke in China designed a car, but couldn't actually build it. An American built one, but it was tulip. A German built a car which worked, so he patented it, sold a load of cars and is still selling them by the million.

[suityou01]

Who the **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

Btw, how many wheels are we talking about?

If it's horseless carriages surely it was Richard Trevithick and his "Puffing Devil"?

That was eons after the first car

[OwlHoot]

the correct answers

spaghetti - china
the car - germany
bikini - france
ball bearing - england


so mich is declared the rapid fire quiz no googling champion 2011

Bzzz ! bikini - Sicily

Oh and copper wire was Scotland - It was discovered accidently when someone tried to pull a penny out of a Scotman's hand.