VS trivia

[Mack]

Mijn 1000ste post!!!

Heel goed...

Because they saw their car as feline in nature, Joe and Dave had started calling it the Cougar. [Joe Oros and Dave Ash, designers of the original Mustang--Ed.] The model they had prepared for the August 16 showing was painted white with red wheels. The Cougar's back bumper turned up to from a bustling little rear end. The grille on the front had a stylized cougar inside, giving the model an aura that was both handsome and powerful.

Before we decided to call it the Mustang, it was known by several other designations. During the early planning stages, we called it the Special Falcon. Then, after the Oros-Ash model was accepted, the Cougar. Henry [Henry Ford, Jr.--Ed.] wanted to call it T-Bird II, but nobody else liked that one.

At a product strategy meeting in May, we narrowed our choices down to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Torino, and Cougar. When we learned that the first two had already been registered with the Automobile Manufacturers Association by other companies, it came down to Torino and Cougar. Finally, we settled on Torino, which happens to be the Italian spelling of the industrial city of Turin. Torino was also in keeping with the vaguely foreign flavor we had worked so hard to capture. As a kind of compromise, we decided to keep the stylized cougar as the Torino's emblem.

While we were preparing the ad campaign for the Torino, I got a call from the top guy in public relations, Charlie Moore. "You'll have to pick another name for your car," he said. He explained that Henry was in the midst of a divorce and was keeping company with Cristina Vettore Auston, an Italian jet-set divorcee he had met at a party in Paris. Some of Henry's underlings felt that giving the new car an Italian name would embarrass the boss.

We had to come up with another name in a hurry. When it comes to naming a car, there's always a battle. And for good reason: the name is often the toughest part of the car to get right. It's easier to design doors and roofs than to come up with a name, because the choice is inevitably subjective. Sometimes the process can get pretty emotional.

John Conley, who worked for J. Walter Thompson, our ad agency, was a name specialist. In the past, he had researched bird names for the Thunderbird and the Falcon. This time we sent him to the Detroit Public Library to look up the names of animals--from aardvark to zebra. John came up with thousands of suggestions, which we narrowed down to six: Bronco, Puma, Cheetah, Colt, Mustang, and Cougar.

Mustang had been the name of one of the car's prototypes. Obviously, it was not named for the horse, but for the legendary World War II fighter plane. No matter. We all liked Mustang, and as the ad agency said: it "had the excitement of wide-open spaces and was American as all hell."

In my library at home, I still have a die casting of the emblem of the Cougar, which the designers sent me in a little walnut box with a scroll saying: "Please don't fool around. Don't name it anything but Cougar." It was a request I couldn't honor, but we did use the name Cougar a few years later for a fine new car from the Lincoln-Mercury Division.

[Michigan]

Hot dogs were frequently known as frankfurters or franks, but the name "hot dog" became popular by the 1890s. In the 1830s, it was widely rumored that the dogs that roamed urban streets were regularly rounded up (by "dog wagons") and made into sausages; by the 1840s, the term "dog sandwich" was used.

Mijn vraag over de boten is nog steeds niet beantwoord...

[Mack]

Als mijn vraag zo makkelijk op te zoeken is, waarom geef je het antwoord dan niet mack?

Ik had het over mijn vraag... Je was me voor met een andere vraag.

[Michigan]

Als mijn vraag zo makkelijk op te zoeken is, waarom geef je het antwoord dan niet mack?

Ik had het over mijn vraag... Je was me voor met een andere vraag.

Okay .
Maar zo zie je maar weer, dat bleek toch niet zo'n simpele vraag te zijn .

[Mack]

Ik had het over mijn vraag... Je was me voor met een andere vraag.

Okay .
Maar zo zie je maar weer, dat bleek toch niet zo'n simpele vraag te zijn .

Jij hebt het gewoon van het Mustang-forum, "Mike"

[Njit]

In welke staat worden de meeste boten geregistreerd?

Het antwoord is: HAITI.. ownee, Michigan

(voor degene die het niet snappen. Kijk eens de Mike & Thomas Show)

http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly ... 18boat.htm

[Njit]

Trivia: in welke staat ligt de stad die het eerste een telefoonnummer kreeg toegewezen in de USA? (en welke stad was dat)

[Mack]

Corpus Christi, Texas

The First Telephone System -- cranked up in 1892, owned by Dr. Alfred G. Heaney. He received the first telephone, number 1, and his son, Dr. Harry G. Heaney, got number 2. By 1920, the city had 700 telephones. In those days, the operator was allowed to gossip about what she overheard, but it was a firing offense to flirt on the line.

[rene.jager]

Trivia: (Schoenmaker blijf bij je leest... )

In welke 3 Staten vind je het grootste aantal militaire vliegbases, te weten 13 per staat??

[Coyote]

In welke 3 Staten vind je het grootste aantal militaire vliegbases, te weten 13 per staat??

In Californië, Texas en Florida.

Bron: http://www.HelloAmericA.nl

Roland

[rene.jager]

:doublethumb:

[Njit]

Corpus Christi, Texas

The First Telephone System -- cranked up in 1892, owned by Dr. Alfred G. Heaney. He received the first telephone, number 1, and his son, Dr. Harry G. Heaney, got number 2. By 1920, the city had 700 telephones. In those days, the operator was allowed to gossip about what she overheard, but it was a firing offense to flirt on the line.

Foutief antwoord. De vraag ging over het eerste telefoonNUMMER, niet de eerste telefoon.

[Mack]

Corpus Christi, Texas

Foutief antwoord. De vraag ging over het eerste telefoonNUMMER, niet de eerste telefoon.

De eerste telefoon moet toch ook een nummer hebben? Hoe wil je hem anders bellen?

[Njit]

De eerste telefoon moet toch ook een nummer hebben? Hoe wil je hem anders bellen?

Nee hoor. Toen had je gewoon nog een Operator. En die verbond je door...

[ikkedus]

Trivia: in welke staat ligt de stad die het eerste een telefoonnummer kreeg toegewezen in de USA? (en welke stad was dat)

Lowell, Massachusetts in 1879

[Mack]

Heb nog een leuke. Is mijns inziens niet te "googelen".

Waar is dit?



(okay, hij is een beetje vals)

Hij is moeilijk, maar ik heb het idee dat een aantal mensen hier weet waar dit is... Ik gok op Petra)

[ronald87]

Ik denk in Louisiana?

[Petra/VS]

Maar dat is toch niet in Amerika?

[Mack]

Maar dat is toch niet in Amerika?

Ik zei ook "het is een beetje vals"... Er komen wel heeeeeel veeeeel Amerikanen natuurlijk...

Maar je hebt het dus herkent. Ik ben weer blij

[ronald87]

Er komen wel heeeeeel veeeeel Amerikanen natuurlijk...

Dan is het zeker in Aruba??