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50 free Mopar trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mopar began as a name on a parts-counter product and grew into shorthand for everything Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth ever built. To its fans the word means big-block thunder, loud paint, cartoon mascots and a stubborn habit of doing things differently from Ford and GM. This Mopar quiz covers the whole story: the muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s, the Hemi and the other engines behind them, drag strip and stock car heroes, famous Chargers and Challengers on film and television, and the mergers, rescues and oddball experiments that shaped the company. A few questions reach back to the tailfin years and forward to the modern supercharged era. It is written for anyone who has ever argued about a fender tag, as well as for casual fans who know the cars from the movies or from Mark Worman's restoration show. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a story or two even on the ones you miss.
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Q 01Mopar, short for motor parts, first appeared in 1937 on cans of which Chrysler product?
Antifreeze
Antifreeze was the first product to wear the name, coined by an internal Chrysler council. Enthusiasts later stretched Mopar to cover any vehicle the company built.
Q 02What is the orange 1969 Dodge Charger driven by the Duke cousins in The Dukes of Hazzard called?
General Lee
General Lee appears in every episode but one. The name echoes Traveller, the bootlegger's car in Moonrunners, the film the series grew out of.
Q 03Plymouth paid Warner Bros. $50,000 to name its 1968 budget muscle car after which cartoon character?
Road Runner
Road Runner rights were only part of the bill. Plymouth spent a further $10,000 developing a horn that imitated the bird's cartoon call.
Q 04In which 1968 film does a black Dodge Charger chase Steve McQueen's Mustang through San Francisco?
Bullitt
Bullitt put stunt driver Bill Hickman, who also played one of the hitmen, at the wheel of the black Charger. Spliced takes make the Dodge shed more wheel covers than it has wheels.
Q 05What kind of engine powered the 1963 Chrysler coupe lent to 203 ordinary drivers in a public trial?
Gas turbine
Gas turbine power meant the coupe could burn almost anything. Mexico's president ran one on tequila after Chrysler's engineers confirmed it would work.
Q 06Which 1958 Plymouth model is the possessed, murderous car in Stephen King's novel Christine?
Fury
Fury is the badge on the dilapidated wreck that teenager Arnie Cunningham spots on a neglected lawn in 1978. Its odometer later runs backwards as the damage undoes itself.
Q 07Which Dodge sports car, launched in 1992, has a V10 engine developed with help from Lamborghini?
Viper
Viper development leaned on Lamborghini because Chrysler owned the Italian firm at the time. Its engineers cast the prototype aluminium block.
Q 08In The Fast and the Furious (2001), which character finally drives his father's 1970 Dodge Charger?
Dom Toretto
Dom Toretto climbs into the Charger to pursue Johnny Tran and avenge his friend Jesse, moments after an undercover cop decides not to arrest him.
Q 09Which executive, fired by Ford in 1978, took over Chrysler and returned it to profit in the 1980s?
Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca was dismissed on July 13, 1978, in a year when Ford posted a $2 billion profit. He led Chrysler until retiring at the end of 1992.
Q 10Which Plymouth fastback reached showrooms on April 1, 1964, two weeks before the Ford Mustang?
Barracuda
Barracuda designers gave the fastback a 14.4-square-foot wraparound rear window, the largest fitted to a standard production car up to that time.
Q 11Which 1971 film follows Kowalski as he races a white Dodge Challenger from Denver toward San Francisco?
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point casts its hero as a decorated Vietnam veteran and former racer delivering the Dodge for a living. He buys pills at a biker bar to stay awake for the trip.
Q 12Which winged 1970 Plymouth had to be built in at least 1,920 street-legal copies to race in NASCAR?
Superbird
Superbird output had to equal one car for every two Plymouth dealers in America. The nose cone and pop-up headlights added nineteen inches to its length.
Q 13Which NASCAR driver, nicknamed the King, won the 1964 Daytona 500 in a Hemi-powered Plymouth?
Richard Petty
Q 21Which 1970 Plymouth compact got a cartoon twister logo after talks to license the Tasmanian Devil collapsed?
Duster
Duster designer Thomas Bertsch drew the twister and its lettering himself once the Warner Brothers negotiations failed.
Q 22In Steven Spielberg's 1971 thriller Duel, a tanker truck stalks a salesman driving which red Plymouth?
Valiant
Valiant sedans carried PLYMOUTH lettering across the hood, so the crew covered the brand name with aluminium foil for filming.
Q 23Hurst rebuilt only 80 examples of which Dodge compact with 426 Hemi power for 1968 drag racing?
Dart
Dart Hemi cars were sold strictly for the strip and came with a disclaimer that they carried no warranty. Engineers quoted quarter-mile times of ten to eleven seconds.
Richard Petty led 184 of the 200 laps that day on the way to his first championship. He later voiced a Pixar racer partly modelled on himself.
Q 14Which 2018 Dodge Challenger was barred from NHRA drag strips for being too quick without a roll cage?
SRT Demon
SRT Demon runs covered the quarter-mile in 9.65 seconds, and the NHRA demands a certified roll cage for any car that dips under ten.
Q 15Which supercharged Hemi V8, launched for 2015 with 707 horsepower, is named after a wartime fighter plane?
Hellcat
Hellcat honours the Grumman F6F fighter. Mopar later sold the 707-horsepower V8 on its own as a crate motor for home builders.
Q 16Chrysler's Hemi V8 takes its name from the dome shape of which part of the engine?
Combustion chamber
Combustion chamber domes leave room for two large valves and lose little heat to the cylinder head, which is where the design finds its extra power.
Q 17Chrysler gained the Jeep brand in 1987 by buying which smaller US carmaker?
American Motors
American Motors brought Chrysler the profitable Jeep line, which is why enthusiasts count Jeeps built after the buyout as Mopars too.
Q 18The R/T badge worn by high-performance Dodge models since the 1960s stands for what?
Road/Track
Road/Track has nothing to do with the similarly named magazine. Dodge uses the badge much as Chevrolet uses SS.
Q 19The Bluesmobile in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers is a retired 1974 police sedan of which model?
Dodge Monaco
Dodge Monaco sedans with the 440 V8 were, in co-writer Dan Aykroyd's view, the hottest police cars of the 1970s, which is why he chose one.
Q 20Which TV series follows Mark Worman's Oregon shop as it restores wrecked Mopar muscle cars?
Graveyard Carz
Graveyard Carz is filmed in Springfield and sticks to Chrysler products of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Worman created the show as well as fronting it.
Q 24Which Plymouth hot-rod roadster of 1997, with open front wheels, was sold at first only in purple?
Prowler
Prowler bodywork was hand-crafted in aluminium. Design chief Tom Gale, who kept a hotted-up 1932 Ford in his own garage, approved the project.
Q 25Which Dodge four-wheel-drive truck, launched in 1945, was based on the company's World War II army trucks?
Power Wagon
Power Wagon sales of the original flat-fender model ended in the United States by 1968, when it could no longer meet new federal light-truck rules.
Q 26Carroll Shelby chose the initials GLH for his hot 1984 Dodge Omni; what do they stand for?
Goes Like Hell
Goes Like Hell was Shelby's pick after Chrysler rejected the name Coyote. The final 500 cars became the GLHS, the S standing for S'more.
Q 27Which famously durable Chrysler inline engine of 1960 copied a Mercedes racing trick to fit under lower hoods?
Slant-6
Slant-6 cylinders lean 30 degrees from vertical, the cant Mercedes had used in the sports racer that won Le Mans. Plymouth's marketers called it the 30-D at launch.
Q 28Which animal nickname did Chrysler's 426 Hemi earn for its size, weight and ground-pounding power?
Elephant
Elephant was also the first engine Chrysler actually marketed as a Hemi. The 1950s versions with the same domed heads were sold under the FirePower name.
Q 29What did Dodge call the trio of two-barrel Holley carburetors offered on its 440 V8 from 1969?
Six Pack
Six Pack was the Dodge name; Plymouth badged the identical setup 440 6-BBL. It lifted the big-block to 390 horsepower, above the four-barrel version's 375.
Q 30Which Chrysler three-speed automatic of 1956 was first controlled by push buttons on the dashboard?
TorqueFlite
TorqueFlite replaced the two-speed PowerFlite. Early units had no parking lock at all until a separate lever was added beside the buttons in 1960.