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Take the Tail Light Code Quiz
No prizes, no rules.  All the information you need is on this site.  Click on a box to see the correct answer.  Click at the bottom of the page to see all the answers on one page.  Keep score yourself--it's on the honor system.  Good luck!  
 
                   
  Test Your Knowledge       Score yourself  
  Not for beginners       How do you rate?  
                   
  1 SAE STDC 67 MG       10 You must be the Taillight  
    (a) 1967 MG MGC                                        c       King himself!  Welcome to  
    (b) 1967 Ford Mustang                                 c       this humble site.  
    (c) 1967 Cadillac Eldorado                            c          
    (d) 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood                          c     8-9 You're at least a taillight  
                prince or princess.  
  2 SER-DO PL-113            
    (a) 1951 Chevrolet parking light                      c     4-7 You're a duke or duchess.  
    (b) 1953 Dodge parking light                          c          
    (c) 1963 Plymouth parking light                     c     2-3 You're a baron or baroness.  
    (d) 1962 Plymouth Valiant aftermarket            c          
              0-1 You're a beginner.  Do your  
  3 ERST-60         homework and try again.  
    (a) 1960 Edsel                                             c          
    (b) 1960 Comet                                            c  
    (c) Either of the above                                   c          
    (d) Neither of the above                                 c     The Taillight Shark  
              Not what you thought  
  4 GUIDE R-38 (glass)            
    (a) 1938 Rambler                                          c     The taillight shark,  
    (b) 1938 Oldsmobile                                     c     Euprotomicroides zantedeschia,  
    (c) 1948 Oldsmobile                                     c     is a rare sleeper shark of the  
    (d) 1965-up Oldsmobile 98                            c     Dalatiidae family, the only  
              member of the genus  
  5 SAE STDB 69 MY       Euprotomicroides, found in the  
    (a) 1969 Mercury Monterey or Marauder         c     subtropical south Atlantic Ocean  
    (b) 1969 Ford Maverick                                 c     off South Africa and Uruguay  
    (c) 1969 Continental Mark III                          c     between latitudes 30°S and 37°S.  
    (d) None of the above                                    c          
              It is a small, compressed dogfish  
  6 BUK (glass)       shark with a blunt snout, ear-  
    (a) 1935-38 Buick                                         c     shaped pectoral fins, and gill slits  
    (b) 1950 Bentley                                           c     increasing greatly in width from  
    (c) 1964 Plymouth Barracuda                        c     front to back.  
    (d) 1941 Plymouth                                        c          
              The cloaca area has a large,  
  7 PL-681       luminous gland not found in other  
    (a) 1949 Pontiac parking light                        c     sharks.  
    (b) 1968 Plymouth Fury I                               c          
    (c) 1968 Plymouth van                                  c     Coloration is brown with black  
    (d) 1937-39 Dodge                                        c     underparts, with fin margins  
              conspicuously white.  Length is  
  8 MPT-55       up to about 42 cm.  
    (a) 1955 Metropolitan                                    c          
    (b) 1955 Ford Meteor                                    c     It is probably oceanic but is also  
    (c) 1955 Mercury parking light                       c     found near the upper continental  
    (d) 1955 MG PT                                           c     slope. The holotype was caught  
              in a bottom trawl between 457  
  9 T-14A (glass)       and 640 m, and a second  
    (a) Lynx-Eye aftermarket                               c     specimen was collected in the  
    (b) 1948 Studebaker                                     c     open ocean near the surface at  
    (c) 1948 Tucker                                            c     less than 25 m.  Food is unknown
    (d) 1944 Chevrolet or GMC truck                    c     but the powerful jaws and sharp  
              teeth suggest that this species  
  10 GUIDE 68 SAE STDC 66       can take relatively large prey.  
    (a) 1966 Studebaker                                     c          
    (b) 1966 GMC truck                                      c     Adapted from an article in  
    (c) 1966 Cadillac                                          c     Wikipedia, the online  
    (d) 1968 Cadillac                                          c     Encyclopedia.    
                   
 
 
 
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