Indy 500 Ticket Giveaway Trivia Contest
Written by Douglas Brown · May 15, 2008
The Contest
Hey Indy 500 trivia buffs! Here’s your chance to win! We’ve put together a series of Indianapolis Motor Speedway trivia questions that we think will be tough to just “Google” the answers. Take a crack at the questions below, follow the rules and win!
The two people to get all (or the most) questions correctly answered will win a pair of tickets (Tickets ONLY; Paddock Box, Box 51, Row N) to the 2008 Indy 500 to be run on Sunday May 25.
The Rules
- Questions must be answered in the comments section of this posting.
- Number your answers 1-12, same as the questions.
- The first two (2) commenter with the most correct answers get two (2) tickets each.
- Therefore, you need to provide a legitimate email address that we can contact you at to get your mailing address.
- The contest closes at 12 Noon Eastern Time, Wednesday May 21, 2008, winning two (2) seats each.
- If there are no correct answers by the deadline, we’ll give the tickets away to the first response (by date and time in the comments section of this posting) that gets closest to the right answer by the allotted time.
The Questions
- What fast food restaurant used to stand at the corner of 16th Street and Georgetown Road, across from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
- What was the name of the dress shop in the Speedway Strip mall that used to occupy the south side of 16th Street, across from the IMS South Gate?
- What is the exact location of the famed “Coca-Cola” parking lot?
- The original pagoda, the one that burnt down in 1925, was painted what colors?
- What is the exact height of the scoring pylon at IMS?
- Who has the most victories at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway?
- How many faces are on the façade of the Borg Warner Trophy given to the ‘500’ winner?
- Who’s the only face depicted on the Borg-Warner Trophy wearing glasses?
- The Turn 1 (and later Turn 4) infield areas were once commonly referred to as?
- What product provides is the source of wealth for the Hulman/George family, now owners of IMS and the IndyCar brand?
- Though IMS will not release an official seating chart, an Indianapolis Star reporter “counted” the seats at IMS in 2006. How many did he say there are?
- How much did Tony Hulman pay for the track when he purchased it in 1945?
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Hello,
There not the best answers but I will give it a shot. Here are my early answers:
5. 90 feet 4 inches
6. Al Unser, AJ Foyt, Rick Mears
7. 45 faces
8. Rick Mears
11. +-400,000 seats
Thank you
1) White Castle
2) Wedding Dresses
3) 25th St. and Georgetown Rd.
4) Back and white
5) 300 ft.
6) Roger Penske
7) 59
8) Arie Lyundyke
9) Snake Pit
10) Indycar series
11) 250,000
12) $45,000.00
1) White Castle
2 ) Clair’s Wedding Dresses
3) Between Georgetown Rd on the east,W 30th St on the north,Moller Rd. and Lyhurst Dr. on the west and w 25th and 26th St on the south side of the lot. In Speedway, Indiana
4) Green and White
5) 93ft and 5 inches
6) For the F-1 race Michael Schumaher with 5 wins. For the 500, A.J.Foyt Jr. ,Al Unser Sr. and Rick Mears 4 wins each and for the Brickyard 400 Jeff Grdon with 4 wins
7) None, The faces are only put on the “real Borg-Warner Trophy”. The “Baby Borg ” has none on it.
8) Bobby Rahal , He won in 1986
9) “The Snake Pit”
10) Clabber Girl Baking Powder Co. in Terre Haute, Indiana
11) 257,325 seats,That was counting guess by the reporter. It was also reported in USA Today in 2004 or 2005.
12) The Indianapolis Star and News reported $750,000, but no offical amount was publicy released in 1945. Tony Hulman brought from Eddie Rickenbacker.
Update to answer #7
The winner does not get the real Borg-Warner Trophy. He or she get a small copy of it. The copy is about 18 to 20 inches tall
update to answer #6) wins by an owner is 14 by Roger Penske
1. White Castle
2. Clair’s
3. From Moller Rd to Georgetown Rd, from 30th St to 25th St. Here’s a map : http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.807151,-86.247826&spn=0.019814,0.027809&t=h&z=15
4. green and white
5. 90 ft 4 inches
6. Penske
7. 1
8. Tom Sneva
9. snake pit
10. Hulman & Co, primarily Clabber Girl, although they were selling grocery goods for 50 years before launching the baking powder brand.
11. 257,325
12. $750,000
1. Though not as “fast food”ish, for a while the national top-grossing Ponderosa was next to the White Castle.
Wow!!! I can’t believe this! Thanks Fast Machines for this oppertunity.
Here are my answers:
1- White Castle
2- Clair’s Wedding Dresses
3-Within the corners of W 30th Street/Moller Road and W 25th Street/Georgetown Road
4-Green and White
5-90 feet 4 inches
6-As an owner Roger Penske/ as a driver Michael Schumacher
7- One face, the little man on top, LOL
8-Tom Sneva since Bobby Rahal’s glasses were removed
9-The Snake Pit
10-Clabber Girl Baking Powder
11-257,325 seats
12-$750,000
1 White Castle
2 Clair’s
3. 5000 W 25th St ,Indianapolis, IN 46224 which is the NW Corner Georgetown & 4. 25th St. The lot is bordered by @25th st, georgetown rd, 30th st, and Moeller rd.
5. White with Green Trim
6. 90 feet, 4 inches
7. Owner - Roger Penske (14).
8. None on the facade of the Baby Borg but there is one face on the base
9. Tom Sneva
10. TheSnakepit
11. Clabber Girl Baking Powder
12. 257,325
13. $750,000.00
There is no face on the little man on top of the trophy.
Tom Sneva would let his picture be taking with sunglasses only when he was driving. Also he wore contacts in his early days at the “500″. It wasn’t till late in his driving career that he had to switch to glasses. The pictures of him in Victory lane show him with out glasses. Also it’s Bobby Rahal. He wore glasses his whole driving career. The pictures of him show him with glasses on. His later had eye surgery and doesn’t have to wear glasses now.
In responce to “Richard 1958,” I rechecking my sources and I would like to comfirm my answer to question number 8 as being one face but change my comment to say that I don’t know if the little man has a face or not but there still one face and that at the base of the winning driver (well I assume its the winning driver; Thats the only face I would want to see if I ever got the trophy,LOL). Thanks Richard