Police Cars and Emergency Vehicles

What this quiz asks

• Which dog breed traditionally ran alongside horse-drawn fire engines?
• The word 'ambulance' comes from a Latin verb meaning what?
• 'AMBULANCE' is often written back to front on the front of the vehicle.
• Which Ford saloon was the standard American police car for decades until its production ended in 2011?
• Which city's police made headlines from 2013 by adding supercars such as a Lamborghini Aventador and later a Bugatti Veyron?
• In 2004 Italy's Polizia di Stato received a car from which supercar maker?
• Select ALL of these that Italy's police Lamborghini Gallardo carried for emergencies.
• The bold chequered livery on many British emergency vehicles is nicknamed after this cake. What is it called?
• Select ALL of these that were nicknames for British police cars.
• The siren is named after creatures from which mythology?
• In what year did French inventor Charles Cagniard de la Tour name his sound-making device the 'siren'?
• Which surgeon in Napoleon's army created the horse-drawn 'flying ambulances' in the 1790s?
• In many US towns before the 1970s, the ambulance service was run by funeral homes.
• What sits at the centre of the blue six-pointed 'Star of Life' seen on many ambulances?
• Akron, Ohio, put what is often called the first police car into service in 1899. What powered it?
• Did the black-and-white chequered hat band worn by many police forces, the Sillitoe tartan, start in Scotland?
• Order these emergency telephone numbers by the year they were first introduced, earliest first.
• London's Flying Squad, formed in 1919 and famed for its fast cars, got its rhyming-slang nickname 'The Sweeney' from whom?
• Long American ladder trucks often have a second steering wheel at the back. What is the rear driver called?
• In the UK, what colour of flashing beacon may a registered doctor show when answering an emergency call?