Corvette Trivia
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91 free Corvette trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Chevrolet Corvette has been America's Sports Car since 300 hand-built white roadsters left Flint in 1953. This quiz runs through all eight generations: the Blue Flame six and the first V8, Harley Earl and Zora Arkus-Duntov, the split-window Sting Ray, the Mako Shark-inspired C3, the skipped 1983, the Lotus-designed ZR-1, the LS1 C5, the C7 Stingray revival and the mid-engine C8, E-Ray and ZR1X. It also covers Bowling Green and the National Corvette Museum sinkhole, Corvette Racing at Le Mans, the astronauts' Corvettes and Route 66. About a third of the questions are easy for any car fan, a third are medium and the rest are for people who know what a 4+3 is. Every answer is checked against the Corvette's reference pages.
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Q 01The Corvette is named after what?
A small, maneuverable warship
A small, maneuverable warship called the corvette escorted convoys in World War II; a GM publicity man proposed its name for the new sports car, and executives accepted it in 1953.
Q 02What came standard on the 1984 Corvette's dashboard?
Digital gauges
Digital gauges replaced every needle with liquid-crystal graphics in 1984, but they did not last: the 1990 redesign went back to analog dials for the tachometer and engine gauges.
Q 03What was unusual about the original Corvette's bodywork?
It was made of fiberglass
It was made of fiberglass rather than steel, and all 300 of the 1953 cars were assembled by hand while Chevrolet learned how to mold the new material.
Q 04All 300 Corvettes built for 1953 left the factory painted which color?
Polo White
Polo White with a red interior was the only combination offered, so every 1953 Corvette looked alike; buyers first got a choice of paint colors in 1954.
Q 05What engine powered the 1953-55 Corvettes before a V8 arrived?
The Blue Flame inline-six
The Blue Flame inline-six was Chevrolet's everyday sedan engine, tuned with three side-draft carburetors to reach 150 hp; a V8 became optional in 1955.
Q 06Which competing two-seater debuted in 1955, the same year GM cut Corvette production to 700 cars?
Ford Thunderbird
Ford Thunderbird was the rival that helped save the Corvette: GM had weighed dropping its slow-selling sports car, then chose to improve it rather than yield the field to Ford.
Q 07Which GM styling chief conceived the Corvette and unveiled its EX-122 prototype at the 1953 Motorama?
Harley Earl
Harley Earl, an avid sports-car fan who ran GM's Styling Section, decided the company should build one after seeing European sports cars on postwar racing circuits.
Q 08Which Chevrolet engineer earned the nickname "Father of the Corvette"?
Zora Arkus-Duntov
Zora Arkus-Duntov joined GM in 1953 after seeing the Corvette show car in New York, then spent two decades pushing the car toward V8 power and racing.
Q 09Which long-running Corvette styling feature disappeared when the C6 arrived for 2005?
Pop-up headlights
Pop-up headlights had been part of every Corvette for four decades; the C6 went back to fixed, exposed lamps, the first on the car since the 1962 model.
Q 10Which one-year-only feature makes the 1963 Corvette coupe especially collectible?
A split rear window
A split rear window divided the 1963 coupe's glass for one year only; complaints inside Chevrolet that the spine blocked rear vision won out, and a single pane arrived for 1964.
Q 11The Z06 designation first appeared as what on the 1963 Corvette?
A competition package option
A competition package option, Z06 let a 1963 buyer order a race-ready Sting Ray by ticking a single box on the order form; only 199 cars got it.
Q 12The third-generation Corvette of 1968 was patterned after which concept car?
Mako Shark II
Mako Shark II gave the production car more than its shape: the whole 1968-82 generation it inspired is still nicknamed the Shark.
Q 13The 1978 Corvette Indy 500 pace car replica wore black paint over which color?
Silver
Silver ran below a black upper body on the first Corvette to pace the Indianapolis 500, a role Chevrolet arranged to celebrate the car's 25th anniversary.
Q 21What fundamental change did the C8 Corvette make in 2020?
A rear mid-engine layout
The 2020 C8 moved to a rear mid-engine layout, placing its 6.2-liter LT2 V8 behind the seats; every previous Corvette generation had been front-engined.
Q 22What is the E-Ray, introduced as a 2024 model?
A hybrid all-wheel-drive Corvette
The E-Ray is a hybrid all-wheel-drive Corvette, the first to power all four wheels: a V8 drives the rear pair while a 160-hp electric motor turns the fronts.
Q 23The Corvette ZR1X set a 2025 lap record for American production cars at which track?
The Nürburgring
Q 14Which milestone car did the Corvette assembly line turn out in 1992?
The one-millionth built
The one-millionth built came 39 years after the first, yet it arrived during a slump, with only about 20,000 Corvettes sold that year.
Q 15What makes the 1983 model year unique in Corvette history?
None were sold
None were sold to the public: the redesigned car was running late, so Chevrolet skipped 1983 and put it on sale that spring as an early 1984 model.
Q 16The C4 ZR-1's LT5 engine was designed by which British sports-car maker?
Lotus
Lotus, then owned by GM, designed the 32-valve LT5 V8, and Chevrolet hired boat-engine maker Mercury Marine to build it in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Q 17What was the "4+3" transmission offered on 1984-88 Corvettes?
A four-speed manual with overdrive on three gears
A four-speed manual with overdrive on three gears was built to save fuel: a computer cut in the overdrive at light throttle to help the Corvette meet US economy standards.
Q 18What all-new engine family debuted in the 1997 C5 Corvette?
LS1
LS1 kept the old engine's 5.7-liter size but swapped its iron block for aluminum, and it began the LS family of V8s that GM went on building for decades.
Q 19Which Cadillac was built on the same platform as the C6 Corvette?
XLR
XLR, Cadillac's luxury roadster, was developed first, and several of the C6's refinements, even its wheelbase, were carried over from that project.
Q 20Which high-tech option joined the Corvette for 1999?
A head-up display
A head-up display caught on at once: more than half of 1999's buyers ordered it, and it became one of the more popular high-tech options of that Corvette generation.
The Nürburgring Nordschleife fell to the ZR1X in 6:49.275 in 2025, beating the Ford Mustang GTD's time to post the quickest lap by an American production car to that date.
Q 24Which early-1960s TV show made the Corvette "synonymous with freedom and adventure"?
Route 66
In Route 66, which ran on CBS from 1960 to 1964, Tod Stiles and Buz Murdock drove a Corvette convertible across America each week.
Q 25Which Indy 500 winner turned Florida Chevy dealer arranged yearly Corvette loans for NASA's astronauts?
Jim Rathmann
Jim Rathmann, the 1960 Indianapolis 500 winner, sold Chevrolets in Melbourne, Florida, befriended the astronauts and persuaded GM to lend them new Corvettes each year for the publicity.
Q 26What disaster hit the National Corvette Museum before dawn on February 12, 2014?
A sinkhole swallowed eight cars
A sinkhole swallowed eight cars when the limestone under the Skydome floor gave way; nobody was hurt, and two years later the museum opened an exhibit about the collapse.
Q 27What was the 1990 ZR-1's development nickname?
King of the Hill
King of the Hill was the in-house name for the project, and it stuck: the press was already using it before the car reached showrooms.
Q 28Corvette Racing's factory race cars are known for which color?
Yellow
Yellow became such a team trademark that Chevrolet named a showroom paint Corvette Racing Yellow and sold a Z06 tribute edition in it for 2016.
Q 29Which NASCAR father and son shared a Corvette at Daytona's 2001 24-hour race?
The Earnhardts
The Earnhardts, Dale and Dale Jr., brought their Corvette home fourth in their first 24-hour race; two weeks later the elder Earnhardt was killed in the Daytona 500.
Q 30Which magazine named the Corvette its Car of the Year in 1984, 1998 and 2020?
Motor Trend
Motor Trend gave the award each time to a freshly redesigned car: the fourth generation in 1984, the fifth in 1998 and the eighth in 2020.