Cars & Vehicles
Scooters & Bicycles Quiz
Vespa, Penny Farthing, e-bikes, and the Tour de France — test your two-wheeler knowledge.
Vespa, Penny Farthing, e-bikes, and the Tour de France — test your two-wheeler knowledge.
The Vespa scooter's curvy body was originally designed by an aeronautical engineer to use leftover aircraft parts after WWII. This 50-question ride covers two centuries of human-powered transport — from Karl von Drais's 1817 Laufmaschine and the 1870s penny-farthing to the Safety Bicycle, the Tour de France (since 1903), 1946 Vespa, 1999 Razor scooters, modern bike-shares, and the Class 1/2/3 e-bike regulations now reshaping urban commutes.
Each round presents 10 randomized questions from a pool of 50, with four multiple-choice options and instant feedback after every answer. Your final score comes with a performance tier and shareable results.
You'll explore bicycle history and engineering (Draisine, velocipede, penny-farthing, safety bicycle, Dunlop pneumatic tires, derailleur gears), the great grand tours and riders (Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, LeMond, Armstrong, Pogačar), scooter icons (Vespa, Lambretta, Razor, Bird, Lime), bike types from BMX to Brompton to recumbent, and the numbers behind bike-share systems in Paris, NYC, and Copenhagen.
The first bicycle was Karl von Drais's Laufmaschine ('running machine'), also called the Draisine, in 1817. It had no pedals — riders pushed the ground with their feet. Pedals arrived in the 1860s on French velocipedes.
The Vespa was launched by Piaggio in April 1946 and designed by aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio. Its curvaceous monocoque body was partly a clever reuse of postwar aircraft manufacturing expertise and materials.
A penny-farthing (or 'ordinary') is the high-wheeled bicycle of the 1870s with an enormous front wheel and a tiny rear wheel. The name compares the two wheels to a large penny coin next to a small farthing.
Last updated: April 2026