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1. What is the name of the American truck company that manufactured its first truck in 1907, inspired the name of a Pixar character in the movie 'Cars,' and was purchased by Volvo in 2000?

2. Which chemical (CH3OH, also known as wood alcohol) produces invisible flames and no smoke when it's lit on fire?

3. What does the letter M stand for in the common Oil industry acronym OBM? Oil-based ______.

4. Darren Woods is an American businessman that publicly endorsed the Paris climate accord and wrote a personal letter to Donald Trump urging him to keep the U.S. in the agreement. Somewhat counterintuitively, Woods is also the CEO of what company?

5. What Republican politician served as CEO and Chairman of oil giant Halliburton from 1995 to 2000?

6. ExxonMobil is represented by what three-letter symbol on the New York Stock Exchange?

7. In the 19th century, gasoline was no more than crude oil waste. Most American refineries were really after which combustible hydrocarbon liquid (good for lamps)?

8. Both Exxon and Mobil are 'descendant' companies of what former company that was forced to disband in 1911?

9. A miniature villain stalks a suburban home to the tune of Darth Vader's famously imposing theme song in a 2011 Super Bowl Commercial for what car manufacturer?

10. Several metropolitan areas in the US have highway sections during peak times designated as 'HOV lanes.' What does HOV stand for?

11. What is the name of the 'Island' which had a famous nuclear accident with a radiation leak in Pennsylvania in 1979?

12. In October 1973, many members of OPEC placed an oil embargo on the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom due to their support for Israel in what Middle Eastern conflict?

13. He and his family moved to Strongsville, Ohio in 1853 and he attended Cleveland's Central High School. Sixty years later, he was considered the richest man in the world and had a fortune worth 2% of the U.S. GDP. Who is this man?

14. Sometimes nicknamed a 'wildcat well,' which term applies to the (risky) practice of drilling in an area that isn't known to be an oilfield (but hey, it might be!)?

15. In 1903, Mary Anderson received a patent for an invention that cleaned precipitation and debris. Her initial version was controlled by a handle inside a vehicle. Her invention was widespread within 15 years. By what alliterative name (we need both words!) do we know Mary's invention?

16. Octan is a fictional company whose gas stations appear in the building sets of what Danish toy brand?

17. CNG is a form of fuel used in transportation that is largely comprised of methane - what do the letters CNG stand for?

18. According to Motoring Research, what car series was the most popular in the world with over one million new registrations in 2018? Second place was the Toyota Corolla and third place was the Honda Civic.

19. What was the last name of Erle, who started an oil well services firm in 1919 that spread worldwide, including Iraq?

20. What state recently passed California for having the second most earthquakes per year, allegedly due to fracking?

21. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an intergovernmental organization founded in September 1960 at a conference in what country?

22. In 2018, the second-to-last US state that banned self-serve gasoline rescinded this restriction, leaving only New Jersey as a filling-station-attendant haven. What was this state that recently changed its gasoline regulations?

23. Which part of a marine drilling platform that provides an opening to the water below also sounds like a place you'd go swimming in outer space? (Hint: Some call it 'wet porch')

24. What is the name of the 'well stimulation technique' in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid to create cracks in deep-rock formations through which natural gas or petroleum can escape? This process led to an industrial boom across parts of the Dakotas and Pennsylvania in the 2000s in the U.S.

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