Japanese Brands of the Sixties
1. This brand was originally imported into the U.S. under the Omega moniker.
(a) Tohatsu (b) Yamaguchi (c) Yamaha (d) Honda (e) Suzuki (f) Kawasaki
2. The Hodaka brand was created from what early Japanese import brand?
(a) Tohatsu (b) Pointer (c) Yamaha (d) Yamaguchi (e) Suzuki (f) Rabbit
3. The Runpet Sport was made by:
(a) Pointer (b) Yamaguchi (c) Yamaha (d) Tohatsu (e) Rabbit (f) Suzuki
4. Which brand could be identified by its flat-bottomed headlamps back in The Sixties?
(a) Yamaguchi (b) Tohatsu (c) Rabbit (d) Yamaha (e) Marusho (f) Suzuki
5. Which brand was also marketed as the Riverside brand name?
(a) Yamaha (b) Bridgestone (c) Tohatsu (d) Yamaguchi (e) Suzuki (f) Hodaka
6. What Japanese brand produced the first transverse, horizontally-opposed twin-cyclinder?
(a) Honda (b) Yamaha (c) Suzuki (d) Tohatsu (e) Marusho (f) Kawasaki
7. Which brand produced the Hill-Billy model?
(a) Yamaha (b) Suzuki (c) Kawasaki (d) Yamaguchi (e) Tohatsu (f) Bridgestone
8. Which brand had electric starters on all models except the bottom of the lineup?
(a) Pointer (b) Yamaguchi (c) Honda (d) Tohatsu (e) Hodaka (f) Suzuki
9. What was the first brand name to drop out of the U.S. market?
(a) Hodaka (b) Yamaguchi (c) Omega (d) Marusho (e) Rabbit (f) Tohatsu
10. Which brand was also marketed as the Lilac?
(a) Marusho (b) Yamaguchi (c) Bridgestone (d) Tohatsu (e) Omega (f) Hodaka
Product Affiliations
11. Which brand has never sold outboard motors in the U.S.?
(a) Yamaha (b) Honda (c) Tohatsu (d) Yamaguchi (e) Suzuki
12. Which brand built the engines for the Tiger Shark personal watercraft models in The Nineties?
(a) Honda (b) Yamaha (c) Kawasaki (d) Suzuki (e) Tohatsu
13. Which company owns the name Jet Ski?
(a) Yamaha (b) Kawasaki (c) Suzuki (d) Honda (e) Bridgestone
14. There was a Mr. ________ who founded the company.
(a) Kawasaki (b) Yamaha (c) Honda (d) Suzuki (e) Hodaka
15. Which company built only dirt bikes to be imported into the U.S.?
(a) Hodaka (b) Yamaguchi (c) Tohatsu (d) Bridgestone (e) Pointer
16. Which brand has never sold anything in the U.S. except motorcycles?
(a) Rabbit (b) Pointer (c) Tohatsu (d) Bridgestone (e) Suzuki
17. Which brand sells golf carts in the U.S.?
(a) Honda (b) Suzuki (c) Yamaha (d) Kawasaki (e) Marusho
18. Which company marketed a 600cc convertible in 1965?
(a) Yamaha (b) Suzuki (c) Kawasaki (d) Bridgestone (e) Honda
19. Which brand was once sold at Monkey Ward?
(a) Bridgestone (b) Yamaguchi (c) Tohatsu (d) Rabbit (e) Pointer
20. Which brand first sold a model in the U.S. with an automatic transmission?
(a) Yamaguchi (b) Honda (c) Rabbit (d) Yamaha (e) Marusho
Distinctive Idiosyncrasies
21. What model sported a storage trunk?
(a) Marusho 500 (b) Pointer Lassie (c) Bridgestone 90 (d) Rabbit Superflow
22. Which company painted practically all of its early models red, black, white, or blue?
(a) Honda (b) Yamaha (c) Suzuki (d) Pointer (e) Tohatsu
23. Which brand first offered a water-cooled model in the U.S.?
(a) Yamaha (b) Kawasaki (c) Marusho (d) Rabbit (e) Suzuki
24. What was the first street scrambler called?
(a) Big Bear (b) CL-72 (c) Trail Breaker (d) Trailmaster (e) YDS-2
25. What did the Bridgestone GTR have that was unusual for the time?
(a) tachometer (b) halogen headlamp (c) chrome bores (d) oil pressure gauge
26. What was special about the Sport 65 as a new Honda tiddler?
(a) OHC engine (b) tachometer (c) upswept exhaust (d) no electric starter
27. What was special about the new 1963 Yamaha 80cc YG-1?
(a) turn signals (b) monocoque frame (c) rotary induction (d) top speed
28. What did the 1964 Yamaha YG-1 have that would change the world of motorcycling?
(a) self-cancelling turn signals (b) oil injection (c) monocoque frame (d) rotary shift
29. What brand has always been designed and sized for Americans?
(a) Honda (b) Yamaha (c) Suzuki (d) Kawasaki
30. Which extinct brand can claim the same thing?
(a) Yamaguchi (b) Hodaka (c) Tohatsu (d) Pointer (e) Rabbit
American Tiddlers of the Sixties
31. Which of these was not a Harley-Davidson model?
(a) Ranger (b) Sprite (c) Pacer (d) Scat
32. The Harley-Davidson Topper used what type engine?
(a) 125cc two-stroke (b) 125cc four-stroke (c) 175cc two-stroke (d) 165cc two-stroke
33. How many gears (speeds) did the Cushman Eagle have?
(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four
34. The Simplex brand was built in what city?
(a) New Orleans (b) Detroit (c) Houston (d) Los Angeles
35. What was the model at the top of the Mustang lineup?
(a) Thoroughbred (b) Palomino (c) Stallion (d) Black Lightning
36. Cushman was allied with what foreign brand of scooters?
(a) Mobylette (b) Lambretta (c) Vespa (d) Rabbit
37. The Harley-Davidson Hummer was based on a design by what brand?
(a) Triumph (b) Simplex (c) Ducati (d) DKW
38. What company built the Servi-Cycle?
(a) Simplex (b) Mustang (c) Harley-Davidson (d) Cushman
39. What company built the Highlander?
(a) Mustang (b) Cushman (c) Simplex (d) Harley-Davidson
40. The Harley-Davidson Super 10 was built only in what years?
(a) 1960-61 (b) 1962-64 (c) 1958-61 (d) 1959-63
European Tiddlers of the Sixties
41. What size engine did the line of Triumph Tiger Cubs have?
(a) 250cc (B) 200cc (c) 175cc (d)150cc
42. What was the 250cc Bultaco street model called?
(a) Metralla (b) Lobito (c) Scorpion (d) Impala
43. What was the name of the smallest BSA?
(a) Bullet (b) Commuter (c) Bantam (d) Cheetah
44. What company built a 50cc, single-cylinder, street model with twin carbs and twin exhausts?
(a) Rex (b) Mobylette (c) NSU (d) Motebecane
45. What company built the Pioneer?
(a) Bultaco (b) BSA (c) Ducati (d) Ossa
46. What was the name of the last 250cc street-sport Ducati?
(a) Catalina (b) Diana (c) Monza (d) Riverside
47. What was the name of the smallest Ducati?
(a) Cadet (b) Sprite (c) Little Duck (d) Banzai
48. What company built the 50cc Fireball Scrambler?
(a) BSA (b) Ariel (c) Puch (d) Benelli
49. What is probably the rarest of the Allstate models sold by Sears?
(a) Scrambler (b) 125 (c) 175 (d) Compact
50. What three companies built the Allstate models for Sears?
(a) BSA-Puch-Mustang (b) Puch-Vespa-Gilera (c) Puch-DKW-Benelli (d) MotoMorini-Lambretta-Puch
51. Which of the following does not describe the BSA Starfire Scrambler of 1963?
(a) Roadster & Trials versions available (b) 250cc 4-stroke (c) Not street Legal (d) Single cylinder
52. Which of the following describes the only 250cc model in the BSA lineup of 1968?
(a) Wet-sump engine (b) OHC (c) Starfire (d) Upswept exhaust
53. Which of these was never a European scooter built in the Sixties?
(a) Bultaco El Toreador (b) Triumph Tina (c) Motobi Scooterino (d) MV Agusta Chicco
54. Which of these describes the Ducati Super Falcon?
(a) 80cc two-stroke (b) 200cc four-stroke (c) upswept exhaust (d) four-speed transmission
55. Which of these was not a Capriolo?
(a) Cheetah (b) Antelope (c) Gazelle (d) Impala
56. Which of the following was true of the Parilla Wildcat Scrambler?
(a) double downtube frame (b) offroad version of the Tourist (c) OHC (d) five-speed transmission
57. The Como, Monaco, Piccolo, and KL-35 were models built by what brand?
(a) Bianchi (b) Motobi (c) Benelli (d) Rex
58. Which of these does not describe the NSU Max and Maxi models?
(a) single downtube frame (b) standard solo seat (c) four-stroke single (d) four-speed foot shift
59. Which of these does not describe the Motobi Catria Sport and Imperial Sport models?
(a) OHV single (b) pressed steel frame (c) uncovered rear springs (d) vertical cylinder
60. How did the Jawa 250cc and 175cc models differ from the very similar Allstate Puch equivalents?
(a) 16-inch wheels (b) single pistons only (c) four-speed foot shift (d) piston-port
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