Jeopardy Trivia

[oreo_n2]

So today i was digging up info on the history of the falco, and found this quite intersting, if you are ever on jeopardy you may find this helps you win $25k.

Ok so the motor in the Falco, made by Rotax is a 1 liter 60 degree v-twin. ummm i think thats all you need to know about it so far.

The Jeopardy answer is: This was the original reason the motor was designed.

What is the proper question!

[oreo_n2]

the eight ball sez...

WRONG!

Next?!

[benVFR]

What is an aircraft engine?

(I have zero faith in this answer though after looking at the Rotax web pages.)

Ben

[oreo_n2]

nope. and you wont find this on the Bombardier Rotax site either. It would come from the company that asked Rotax to come up with this kind of design a long while back. Rotax had originally declined to build this motor, until it found that adding the counter rotators inside made it a pretty neat machine for motorcycles. Rider comfort was not an original factor cause it wasn't to go into something that would be "ridden" or "driven"

[zx-stewie]

Was it for one of those blenders you can take on camping trips to make frozen drinks?

[benVFR]

Electrical generator?

But then, why would an unbalanced v-twin engine with no counter-balancers be a good choice for anything? Motorcycles seem to be the only use for them.

Ben

[Dave]

what is a snowmobile engine?
orWhat is a mazda RX7 engine?

[Degsy]

What is a compressor motor?

[oreo_n2]

compressor is thinking in the right direction...

it was meant to be the "driving force" for milker/pumping machines on a bunch of dairy farms in Europe!!!! So the lack of counter rotating balancing stuff made no difference at all, it was supposed to sit in the back of a barn all by its lonesome, happily pumping milk, all the live long day.

so the proper question is...

"What would be the bullet proof heart and sole of a dairy farm in europe, Alex?"

[twrayinma]

what is a two cylinder engine that SUCKS, Alex?

greg's mom?