Answer: Brescia
He was born in 1942. He's always lived in Lovere, on Lake Iseo.
From Quiz: A Long Time Ago
Answer: MV Agusta
Tarquinio won 3 times while riding for the MV Agusta Team. He also achieved one win for the Mondial team on the Isle of Man. However the TT race was also the cause of his retirement, due to an accident in the 1966 race in which he broke his back. He passed away in Bologna in 2005.
From Quiz: Isle Be Back
Answer: 1911
The first race took place in 1905 in conjunction with the Gordon Bennett and Tourist Trophy car races. The Auto Cycle Union took over the organization of the races in 1911. The mountain course was also adopted in the same year.
From Quiz: Isle of Man TT Races
Answer: Aces
Belle Vue Aces in 2008 celebrated their 80th anniversary. They were the only club to operate meetings every year since their conception in 1928, making this Manchester based team the oldest in the world.
From Quiz: Speedway Team's Nicknames
Answer: Whoops
Beginning riders take each mogul within a whoops section, but more advanced riders can just "skip" over them, touching just the tops with their wheels. A rhythm section is similar to the whoops, but consists of several bigger jumps in a row.
From Quiz: The World of Motocross
Answer: Stanley
Although known to the world of motorcycling as "Mike the Bike," his full birth name was Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood.
From Quiz: Motorcycle Roadracing Riders and Bikes
Answer: February 16, 1979
Vale was born on 16th February 1979 in Urbino, Italy. He is the son of Stephania and Graziano Rossi.
From Quiz: The Life of Valentino Rossi
Answer: Valentino Rossi
Besides his multiple world championships, Valentino is famous for his highly entertaining antics and displays. The others are multiple world champions as well, but none are Italian or known as "The Doctor".
From Quiz: Nicknames in Motorcycle Roadracing
Answer: Aces
AKA Belle Vue. Although demonstration matches were held previously, the first official team was the Belle Vue Aces, based in Manchester. Many famous riders rode for the Aces, including Peter Collins and Ivan Mauger. Their Hyde Road track was demolished in 1987, and they moved to the Greyhound track around the corner. Belle Vue can brag to be the only team that ran through World War II.
From Quiz: Speedway: Elite League Team Nicknames
Answer: Kawasaki
The V-force 700 is Kawasaki's largest sport quad and colours are green or orange.
From Quiz: ATV
Answer: 1968
The first season for the bandits was in 1968, as it was for many teams in that year.
From Quiz: Berwick Bandits
Answer: 1928
High Beech raceway held a meeting in February of that year but the first race to resemble modern speedway was on March 3rd, 1928. The meeting was held at Audenshaw in Manchester.
From Quiz: Speedway - From The Beginning
Answer: Texas Tornado
The 'Texas Tornado' finished 5th in 1996, only his 2nd year in the World Championship. He took the title in 2000, and again in 2002, taking it from Troy Bayliss at the very last round in Imola.
From Quiz: World Superbike Championship
Answer: Raymond Roche
Roche won the title in 1990 with 391 points, 54 points ahead of Fabrizio Pirovano.
From Quiz: World Superbikes
Answer: 16 February 1979, Urbino
Yes, he was born on this day, so he's an Aquarius (the craziest sign of the zodiac!), and in this little town in the middle of Italy.
From Quiz: Valentino Rossi : Forza Dottore!
Answer: Michael Doohan
Michael Doohan, riding a Honda, waltzed to the 1997 championship. He won 12 out of 15 races (Malaysian, Japanese, Italian, Austrian, French, Dutch, Imola, German, Brazilian, British, Czechoslovakian and Spanish), scoring 340 points (a whopping 143 points clear of his nearest rival) and taking a fourth consecutive world title.
From Quiz: 1997 World Motorcycle Championship
Answer: Mick Doohan
'Mighty Mick' Doohan would win his third 500cc world championship crown, after winning in 1994 and 1995. He would add two more in 1997 and 1998.
From Quiz: 500cc World Championship 1996
Answer: Harley Davidson
Scott struggled the past two years on the Harley, but vows to back to form on a Ducati in 2001.
From Quiz: Motorcycle Road Racing
Answer: 2
Brian Deegan and Larry Linkogle were the only two members of the notorious clan.
From Quiz: Freestyle Motocross
Answer: 123
The first win was in 1965, the last in 1976. Some sources say 122. It is an absolute record. In 1968, 1969 and 1970 he won all the races in the 350 and 500cc Grand Prix Championship.
From Quiz: A Long Time Ago
Answer: Bob McIntyre
Geoff Duke came tantalisingly close when he recorded a speed of 99.97 mph a year earlier.
From Quiz: Isle of Man TT Races
Answer: TZ Start
This Polish team rode in the Polish Second tier in 2007.
From Quiz: Speedway Team's Nicknames
Answer: Roost
That's why you don't want to stand too close to the track when those pros ride by.
From Quiz: The World of Motocross
Answer: The Isle of Man
Geographically isolated in the middle of the Irish Sea, that small island puts on a world-class racing event every year. The island residents are very supportive of the races, providing hundreds of volunteers to facilitate what is still one of the great spectacles in motor sport. At most tracks, the mark of a racer's having cornered aggressively is severely worn knee pucks; on the Isle of Man, it's scuffs on the rider's helmet where he's brushed against rock walls.
From Quiz: Motorcycle Roadracing Riders and Bikes
Answer: 1996
It was in Brno at the Czech Republic GP that Rossi scored his first, and only, win of the 1996 season.
From Quiz: The Life of Valentino Rossi
Answer: Colin Edwards
Colin Edwards won the 2000 and 2002 World Superbike championships. The 2002 championship was decided at the very last race of the season at Imola, Italy. In the race, Colin Edwards defeated Troy Bayliss. That race is considered to be one of the best races of all-time.
From Quiz: Nicknames in Motorcycle Roadracing
Answer: Bombardier
The Outlander 400/330 was a mid-sized utility quad from Bombardier and the colours choices are green, yellow, and red.
From Quiz: ATV
Answer: Berrington Lough
In the 1981-82 season, the bandits were continuously on the road at places like Barrow and Drewent Park in Workington!
From Quiz: Berwick Bandits
Answer: Brakes and Gears
Yes, no brakes and no gears and 70mph sideways round corners ... that's why I love the sport so much. A rider uses his clutch to slow down and control the bike. A silencer is a mandatory piece on a bike and it is illegal to ride without one.
From Quiz: Speedway - From The Beginning
Answer: Scott Russell
'Foggy' as he is known, took the title in 1994 with 305 points, followed by 1993 champion Russell with 280, and Slight with 277. Chili and Kocinski didnt join World Superbike until 1995.
From Quiz: World Superbike Championship
Answer: 4
'Foggy' won the title in 1994, 1995, 1998 & 1999.
From Quiz: World Superbikes
Answer: Spain
He started in the GP of Spain in Jerez in the year 1996.
From Quiz: Valentino Rossi : Forza Dottore!
Answer: Max Biaggi
Biaggi came closest to losing his 250cc crown in 1997, only winning it in the last round of the championship in Australia. He would finish two points clear of Ralf Waldmann 250-248. Biaggi certainly didn't have it all his own way, winning only 5 races all season.
From Quiz: 1997 World Motorcycle Championship
Answer: Honda
Honda dominated completely in 1996 with little opposition from Yamaha or Suzuki. Yamaha would only win two races all season - thanks to Abe in Japan and Checa in Spain (and both were the riders home races!) Suzuki went winless. Honda was certainly the bike of choice with over half the field riding the machine.
From Quiz: 500cc World Championship 1996
Answer: Jeff Emig
Jeremy McGrath won 14 of 15 events that season, while Jeff Emig won the second to last event breaking McGrath's perfect season.
From Quiz: Supercross
Answer: Mike Cinqmars
Mike Cinqmars flew over his parents' mansion for the spot.
From Quiz: Freestyle Motocross
Answer: The father believed it was signing for a bicycle race.
Actually, his father was completely against his son's passion, but asked a friend for advice: his friend was a bit deaf, so he understood it was about a bicycle race and told Ago's father to sign because "a bit of sport is healthful".
From Quiz: A Long Time Ago
Answer: 7
Foggy held the lap record for seven years. His Lap time was 18 mins 18.8 seconds for the TT course with an average speed of 123.61mph set in 1992 on his last lap. However this blistering lap round the TT course wasn't enough for him to claim the 1992 Senior TT title as that went to Steve Hislop who was just 4.4 seconds quicker overall. Steve Hislop win was also Norton's 1st win since 1973 on the TT. In a recent Fan poll, this race between Fogerty and Hislop was voted one of the greatest in the Isle of Man TT history.
From Quiz: Isle Be Back
Answer: He was shipwrecked
Joey and his friends were traveling to the Isle of Man from Northeren Ireland in a fishing boat which sank. Luckily they were rescued by the Portaferry lifeboat. The bikes were recovered from the wreck, and were able to compete in the races after an overhaul.
From Quiz: Isle of Man TT Races
