Trivia Quiz on Aviation History

1. Where did the Angel falls get its name

A) Named after the Angel family who settled the region

B) Named after an indigenous term meaning 'waterfall of the wind'

C) Named after a priest who blessed the falls

D) Pilot Jimmy Angel crashed 1937

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2. Who made the first solo round the world flight

A) Charles Lindbergh

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Wiley Post

D) Howard Hughes

E) Jean Batten

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3. What airport in Uganda was the scene of a rescue drama in 1977

A) Kampala International Airport

B) Gulu Airport

C) Entebbe

D) Mbarara Airport

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4. DELAG was the worlds first what Oct 16 1909

A) Airship manufacturer

B) Zeppelin factory

C) Ballooning club

D) Airline - by Zeppelin

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5. The Silver Phyllis, a Boeing 707, belonged to what financier

A) Robert vesco

B) Howard Hughes

C) Armand Hammer

D) David Rockefeller

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6. Roe made the first flight in to Britain in a British plane in which year

A) 1907

B) 1909

C) 1908

D) 1910

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7. Imperial Airways in 1925 was the first to do what

A) Show an in flight movie

B) Introduce passenger air conditioning on flights

C) Begin in-flight meal service for passengers

D) Install wireless passenger telephones on board

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8. Charles Lindbergh took only four of these to eat with him on his famous transatlantic flight.

A) Cookies

B) Apples

C) Sandwiches

D) Peanuts

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9. Who was the Chief Designer of the Supermarine Spitfire

A) Reginald Mitchell

B) Sydney Camm

C) Roy Chadwick

D) Geoffrey de Havilland

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10. What were Twinkletoes - Lucky Jim (stuffed cats) first to do

A) Win the first prize at a London cat show

B) Fly across Atlantic Alcock Brown

C) Swim the English Channel

D) Climb Mount Everest

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11. What plane did Aerospatiale of France & the British Aircraft Corp. develop

A) Tu-144

B) The concord concord

C) BAC TSR-2

D) Airbus A300

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12. Who was the first U.S. president to travel in a car, plane and submarine

A) Theodore roosevelt

B) George Washington

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) Dwight D. Eisenhower

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13. What completed a journey of 19,500 miles with only three stops in August 1929

A) The graf zeppelin

B) Spirit of St. Louis

C) Hindenburg

D) R101

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14. John F. Kennedy Airport used to be called __________

A) LaGuardia International

B) New York International

C) Idlewild

D) Queens International

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15. In 1962, for what did britain and france sign an agreement to build together

A) A joint nuclear-powered submarine program

B) Concorde

C) A joint space shuttle project

D) A weather satellite network

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16. In Britain Stanstead airport was formally opened in which year

A) 1943

B) 1966

C) 1991

D) 1980

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17. The Graf Zeppelin completed a 19,500 mile trip in what year

A) 1928

B) 1930

C) 1931

D) 1929

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18. Who was the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone ?

A) Bessie Coleman

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Charles Lindbergh

D) Jacqueline Cochran

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19. Name the American pilot shot down over Russia in 1960

A) Francis Gary Powers

B) Francis Gilbert Powers

C) Francis Garry Powers

D) Frederick Gary Powers

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20. Who was the Chief Designer of the Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft

A) R. J. Mitchell

B) Geoffrey de Havilland

C) Sidney camm

D) Barnes Wallis

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21. What was Japan's most famous WWll aeroplane

A) G4M Betty

B) Nakajima Ki-61 Tony

C) Kawanishi N1K Shiden

D) Zero

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22. What did air cadet frank whittle invent in 1928

A) Propeller-driven piston engine

B) Radar

C) Autopilot system

D) Jet engine

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23. From where to london was the first commercial boeing 747 flight

A) Paris

B) Chicago

C) New york

D) Tokyo

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24. How many days did the first successful trans-atlantic balloon flight take

A) 4 days

B) 5 days

C) 6 days

D) 7 days

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25. What kind of birds are most commonly raced

A) Geese

B) Parrots

C) Canaries

D) Pigeons

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26. Jan 21 1976 What linked Bahrain and Rio de Janeiro

A) Launch cities of the first commercial supersonic passenger service

B) 1st Concord passenger destinations

C) Stops on the world's first around-the-world flight

D) They hosted the first jet service between the Gulf and Brazil

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27. Who earned the moniker "Lady Lindy"

A) Amelia earhart

B) Bessie Coleman

C) Amy Johnson

D) Jacqueline Cochran

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28. Who WasThe First Male To Be Given The The Title Of "Man Of The Year" On Time Magazine

A) Albert Einstein

B) Winston Churchill

C) Charles Liindberg

D) Charles Lindbergh

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29. Founded In 1992 From Which Country Does The Airline Kiwi International Airlines Originate

A) Canada

B) New Zealand

C) United Kingdom

D) USA

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30. What was the name of the first presidential aircraft

A) Air Force One

B) Columbia

C) Sacred Cow

D) The Flying White House

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31. Who was given a ticker tape parade in new york after his 1927 flight to Paris

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Gertrude Ederle

C) Charles Lindbergh

D) Howard Hughes

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32. Which company produced the World War Two aeroplane, the 'Lightning'

A) Lockheed

B) North American Aviation

C) Republic Aviation

D) Douglas Aircraft Company

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33. She was the first woman to fly the atlantic solo

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Amy Johnson

C) Bessie Coleman

D) Charles Lindbergh

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34. What famous airborne event occurred May 21, 1927

A) Hindenburg disaster

B) Amelia Earhart's solo transatlantic flight

C) Lindbergh flight

D) Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier

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35. Who was the pilot in the first fatal air crash

A) Thomas Selfridge

B) Orville Wright

C) Wilbur Wright

D) Louis Blériot

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36. Which company pioneered the first trans-Pacific passenger flights

A) Pan american

B) American Airlines

C) United Airlines

D) British Airways

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37. From new york to where was the first commercial Boeing 747 flight

A) Tokyo

B) Paris

C) Los Angeles

D) London

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38. What type of vehicle was Charles Rolls (Rolls_Royce) in when he died

A) Aeroplane

B) Car

C) Hot air balloon

D) Train

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39. El Dago was the name of whose first private plane

A) Frank Sinatra

B) Dean Martin

C) Sammy Davis Jr.

D) Bing Crosby

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40. Who flew the rocket-powered bell x-ia at a record mach 2.5

A) Chuck yaeger

B) Milburn Apt

C) Pete Knight

D) Scott Crossfield

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41. A planes black box is usually named after what King

A) King Arthur

B) Midas

C) King Tut

D) King Solomon

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42. What unrecognised phenomenon was discovered when Comet aircraft started to fall out of the sky

A) Hydrogen embrittlement

B) Metal fatigue

C) Thermal fatigue

D) Pitting corrosion

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43. Which two nations built the concorde?

A) Britain and France

B) France and Germany

C) United States and Britain

D) Russia and France

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44. Name the Greek national airline

A) Aegean Airlines

B) Helios Airways

C) Sky Express

D) Olympic Airways

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45. What's the largest commercial passenger plane

A) The jumbojet 747

B) Airbus A380

C) Boeing 777-300ER

D) Concorde

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46. Who was president when charles lindbergh flew into history

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Warren G. Harding

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47. Who made the first successful balloon flight across the Atlantic

A) Ben abruzzo, maxie erson & larry newman

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Charles Lindbergh

D) Steve Fossett

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48. Who developed the first jet fighter

A) Germany

B) United States

C) United Kingdom

D) Soviet Union

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49. President Roosevelt was the first president to do what

A) Become the first president to travel into space

B) Attend the first televised presidential address

C) Fly 1943 secret trip Casablanca

D) Sign the Emancipation Proclamation

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50. Give either of the two men who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon

A) Ferdinand von Zeppelin

B) Bertrand piccard brian jones

C) Amelia Earhart

D) Charles Lindbergh

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