Ghost In The Machine

While your average citizen has long grown accustomed to being told their life is going down the drain because of something called 'the global economic crisis', there is seemingly an elite able to drive a coach and horses, or more correctly a luxury car, through the prevailing gloom. At least that seems to be the case judging from the latest sales figures from upmarket car manufacturers Rolls-Royce which show that in the past twelve months there has been a 150% increase compared to the previous year in the number of their vehicles that have been bought worldwide. Much of this has been driven by sales of The Ghost, their model with the most modest price tag. At £165,000 a time it is the least expensive of their lines and now accounts for three out of four Rolls-Royces bought. Muttering that it is indeed a funny old world, the cycle helmet wearing team at Highly Questionable? have taken the manufacturers of various types of upmarket cars as the focus of today's quiz.   

Car Manufacturers Quiz

In which country did each of the following manufacturers of upmarket cars begin operating:- 

1 Rolls-Royce?

2 Mercedes-Benz?
3 Volvo?
4 Cadillac?
5 Ferrari?

Answers to our luxury cars quiz will be published along with tomorrow's questions.

Musical Instruments Quiz Answers

The answers to our previous quiz which had the theme of musical instruments were:-

1 Soft loud.

2 Saint-Saens.
3 The lyre.
4 Antonio Stradivarius.
5 Four.

The author of the Highly Questionable blog, Harry Reid, is a freelance question setter, writer and blogger. he can be contacted at harryreid@btinternet.com.