# 🚗 The DeLorean Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What was the full model name of the famous DeLorean car?  
**Answer:** DeLorean DMC-12  
**Taglines:**  
- DMC-12: More iconic than reliable  
- DMC: Doesn’t Make it to Cruising speed  
- The stainless-steel mistake that made history  
- Built to rust emotionally, not physically  
- 12 stands for “you’ll need 12 mechanics”  

### 2. What movie franchise made the DeLorean world-famous?  
**Answer:** Back to the Future  
**Taglines:**  
- No flux, no fame  
- A car with more screen time than most actors  
- Time-traveling tin can  
- McFly’s misguided Uber  
- It went from lemon to legend  

### 3. What unusual feature do the DeLorean’s doors have?  
**Answer:** Gull-wing doors  
**Taglines:**  
- Because opening doors normally is for cowards  
- Gull-wing: the bird of impracticality  
- Look cool, hit ceilings  
- Doors that say “Don’t park next to me”  
- Flightless fashion  

### 4. Who was the founder of the DeLorean Motor Company?  
**Answer:** John DeLorean  
**Taglines:**  
- From GM prodigy to cautionary tale  
- Built cars and crime stories  
- Had big dreams, and even bigger legal fees  
- CEO of ambition (and scandals)  
- John DeLorean: one hit, infinite drama  

### 5. What was the DeLorean car made out of?  
**Answer:** Brushed stainless steel  
**Taglines:**  
- No paint, just raw ‘80s energy  
- Fingerprint magnet on wheels  
- Built like a fridge, drives like one too  
- Stainless steel: the choice of impractical champions  
- Can’t rust, can’t perform  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The DeLorean famously needed to reach ______ MPH to time travel.  
**Answer:** 88  
**Taglines:**  
- Speed limit of destiny  
- 88 MPH: hold onto your flux  
- Fast, but not fast enough for the highway  
- Break time, not records  
- Faster than a speeding plot twist  

### 2. In *Back to the Future*, the time machine is powered by a ______ capacitor.  
**Answer:** Flux  
**Taglines:**  
- The thing everyone pretends to understand  
- Flux: the fake science we believe  
- Where logic meets lightning  
- Spark-powered plot armor  
- It just sounds smart  

### 3. The DeLorean Motor Company was based in ______.  
**Answer:** Northern Ireland  
**Taglines:**  
- Irish-built, American-fueled disaster  
- Northern Ireland’s most cinematic export  
- Politics, potatoes, and poorly made cars  
- Built with luck and loss  
- Leprechauns not included  

### 4. John DeLorean was famously arrested for attempting to ______.  
**Answer:** Smuggle cocaine  
**Taglines:**  
- Car dealer turned cartel audition  
- Snow driving, literally  
- Powered by ego and powder  
- Breaking laws, not speed records  
- From showroom to courtroom  

### 5. The DeLorean’s production lasted from 1981 to ______.  
**Answer:** 1983  
**Taglines:**  
- Two years of chaos  
- Shorter lifespan than a fruit fly  
- Limited edition, maximum disaster  
- Built fast, fell faster  
- Production line or punchline?  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What color were most DeLorean cars sold in?  
A) Black  
B) White  
C) Stainless steel ✅  
D) Red  
**Taglines:**  
- Grey is the new disappointment  
- Match your microwave  
- Sleek and steely  
- Shiny, inside and out  
- Paint? That’s extra  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What kind of engine did the DeLorean use?  
A) V8  
B) Electric  
C) PRV V6 ✅  
D) Inline-4  
**Taglines:**  
- Powered by three countries’ poor decisions  
- PRV = Probably Really Volatile  
- French-Swedish-Italian regret combo  
- The engine of compromise  
- More noise than go  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Which company helped fund the DeLorean factory in Northern Ireland?  
A) Ford  
B) British Government ✅  
C) General Motors  
D) Rolls Royce  
**Taglines:**  
- Public money, private meltdown  
- British taxpayers funded a Hollywood prop  
- Economic hope meets fiscal facepalm  
- Subsidized stainless sadness  
- When government investments go vroom  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] How many DeLorean DMC-12s were originally produced?  
A) About 5,000  
B) About 9,000 ✅  
C) About 15,000  
D) About 25,000  
**Taglines:**  
- 9,000 built, 9,000 breakdowns  
- Collector’s item by accident  
- Scarce, shiny, and service-dependent  
- The nine thousand-mile mistake  
- Rare for a reason  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What was a major performance complaint about the DeLorean?  
A) Poor handling  
B) No air conditioning  
C) Slow acceleration ✅  
D) High gas mileage  
**Taglines:**  
- 0 to 60... eventually  
- Time travel, not drag racing  
- Looks fast, isn’t  
- Gull-wings, snail legs  
- Stylish stallion, sluggish steed
