Orange County Choppers

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Orange County Choppers (OCC) is a custom motorcycle manufacturer founded by Paul Teutul, Sr. and Paul Teutul, Jr. What year was it founded?

• 1997
• 1999
• 2001

2. The company is featured on American Chopper, a reality TV show that debuted in September 2002 on the Discovery Channel, which has contributed to the company's quick rise to fame. It is seen on what channel today?

• Speed
• TLC
• MSNBC

3. Orange County Choppers (OCC) is based in Orange County, California.

• True or False?

4. Custom motorcycles started as an extension of a steel business, and in 1999 they founded Orange County Choppers. What was the company's first bike that debuted at the 1999 Daytona Biketoberfest.

• “True Blue”
• “Blue Angel”
• “Easy Rider”

5. One of OCC's most popular bikes is The Fire Bike, which was designed to commemorate the New York firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11.

• True or False?

6. Built for racing designer it has a sleek and cobra-like gas tank and cobra emblem sets. The bike was the last bike to receive fabrication in the old shop, and the first to be put together in the new. Who is the racing designer?

• Marv Chapman
• Dan Roberts
• Carroll Shelby

7. The lawn mower company which bills itself as manufacturing the world's "fastest" lawn mower hired OCC to build a bike as a promo for their own line of lawnmowers, thinking the humor of the word "chopper" (which is both a well-known slang term for motorcycle, as well as related to its lawn mowers – which, of course, chop up grass) would be humorous enough to move product and promote company recognition. The bike uses a their lawn mower engine which, after modification, provides enough power to be suitable for a motorcycle engine. Who is the lawn mower company?

• Briggs-Straton
• Dixie Chopper
• Mike’s Lawn Mower

8. Paul Teutul Jr. was the primary designer and fabricator on this bike. The bike was central to the first two episodes of American Chopper. This bike was the first sign to fans of American Chopper of Paul Jr.'s obsession with spiders and spider webs. What is the bike’s name?

• “Black Widow”
• “Spidermans”
• “Scary Devil”

9. The Orange County Choppers MotoCoaster is a Zamperla Motocoaster installed at Darien Lake. The MotoCoaster is Darien Lake's first launched coaster, and is Zamperla's first motorbike roller coaster to be installed in the United States, though a different model with horse theming is being installed at Knott's Berry Farm at the same time.

• True or False?

10. Commissioned by CEO Richard W. Stocks, of Gold Leaf Corporation who also performed restoration work on the Statue of Liberty and maintains artifacts from it, and asked to build a bike dedicated to the statue and freedom. The kicker was they were given a few choice artifacts from the statue itself to incorporate into the bike (a cable that lit the torch became the shifter, for example), and the entire bike was plated in copper from the actual statue itself. Where does the Statue of Liberty Bike reside?

• U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
• Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC
• Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor

Check Your Answers

1. Paul Teutul, Sr. and Paul Teutul, Jr.
2. TLC
3. False. It is based Orange County, New York.
4. “True Blue”
5. True
6. Carroll Shelby
7. Dixie Chopper
8. “Black Widow”
9. True
10. U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL

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