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About Quiz # 246: The Maybach Family
“At last! A quiz I can do!” one of our contestants wrote. And he was right, but so were many others. We had a record number of responses to last weeks quiz and not surprisingly many of those came from Germany. 99.99 % came up with the correct answer, which was of course the
Maybach family. When we get lots of answers we have to be strict (as we always are) so we skipped those who used more than 100 words. Further we decided that simply giving names and birthdates wasn’t enough. Georg Ambtmann identified the game the family was playing as
Halma, a game which was then some twenty years old, but to keep in the spirit of this magazine we decided the prize should go to Richard Armstrong, not only because he used exactly 100 words, but at the same time kept his answer simple and informative, yet had that little extra that we are always looking for (see Read More). Congratulations Richard on your second win! The T-shirt will be on its way. (photo courtesy Daimler AG)
Richard Armstrong: “From left to right we see the Maybach family: Karl, Wilhelm, Emma, Adolf and Bertha. Wilhelm was one of the leading early motor engineers, a colleague of Gottlieb Daimler: the two of them are considered to have built the first modern petrol engine and were among the founders of DMG in 1890. Wilhelm and Karl would go on to design the landmark
120hp Mercedes. Forced out of DMG, the Maybachs formed a company which initially built airship engines for the Zeppelin Company: later they would branch out into aircraft engines. After the Great War they built the beautiful Maybach limousines.
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Friday, 27 March 2009
“At last! A quiz I can do!” one of our contestants wrote. And he was right, but so were many others. We had a record number of responses to last weeks quiz and not surprisingly many of those came from Germany. 99.99 % came up with the correct answer, which was of course the Maybach family. When we get lots of answers we have to be strict (as we always are) so we skipped those who used more than 100 words. Further we decided that simply giving names and birthdates wasn’t enough. Georg Ambtmann identified the game the family was playing as Halma, a game which was then some twenty years old, but to keep in the spirit of this magazine we decided the prize should go to Richard Armstrong, not only because he used exactly 100 words, but at the same time kept his answer simple and informative, yet had that little extra that we are always looking for (see Read More). Congratulations Richard on your second win! The T-shirt will be on its way. (photo courtesy Daimler AG)
Richard Armstrong: “From left to right we see the Maybach family: Karl, Wilhelm, Emma, Adolf and Bertha. Wilhelm was one of the leading early motor engineers, a colleague of Gottlieb Daimler: the two of them are considered to have built the first modern petrol engine and were among the founders of DMG in 1890. Wilhelm and Karl would go on to design the landmark 120hp Mercedes. Forced out of DMG, the Maybachs formed a company which initially built airship engines for the Zeppelin Company: later they would branch out into aircraft engines. After the Great War they built the beautiful Maybach limousines.
