Pierre Curie

Qurra, Thabit ibn

Good job on "Q". I would have used Queen Latifah for her contributions to society at large.

Robert Bunsen

Queen Latifah was too easy a choice. :tup:

Stephen Hawking

I missed Nikola Tesla twice. :ugh:

Tesla, Nikola

Awww.. My favorite. :tup:

Ukichiro Nakaya

Is that a "U" word? :icon17:

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky

No, completely unrelated post.. report me.. ;)

Wright, Brothers..

X-ray discovery guy whose name I forget

Yunusov, Sabir

Zora Neale Hurston

alternator

battery is dead

clutch sticking

dead battery

empty battery cells

fuse blown

gas cap loose

hold-down for the battery corroded and when you too a hard corner, the battery slid into the edge of the hood, shorting and then taking out the fusible link...

True Story.

ignition key gets lost

jumper cables hooked to wrong terminals

keyfob button gets pushed and your windows roll down in a rain storm

leaking connection on the fuel rail causes an engine fire

motor spewing oil out of all the seals

no cranking when turning the key

opposite polarities on battery posts

punctured tires after running across the spike strips while attempting to evade the police

quits running after EMP burst

radio starts a fire because I was drunk when I installed it

stalls in traffic because I sneezed in my cocaine and blew it everywhere

Transmission blew because I put Dexron III in my manual

underwear gets caught up in the gearbox. (How did those get there?)