Trivia Quiz on Aviation History Part 2

1. What is a zeppelin

A) Airship

B) Hot air balloon

C) Dirigible

D) Blimp

E) Airplane

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2. Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to hold what

A) Barber's license

B) Medical license

C) Architect's license

D) Pilots Licence

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3. When was the first jet aircraft flown

A) 1941

B) 1939

C) 1940

D) 1942

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4. What airline started 24th September 1946 single DC3 - Betsy

A) Singapore Airlines

B) Japan Airlines

C) Cathay Pacific

D) Malaysia Airlines

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5. What Is The National Airline Of Greece

A) Olympic Airways

B) Aegean Airlines

C) Ellinair

D) Sky Express

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6. How Long Did It Take To Complete The First Circumnavigation Of The Earth By Air

A) 175 Days

B) 90 Days

C) 210 Days

D) 365 Days

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7. February 18, 1930 marks the first flight by a __________ in an airplane.

A) Cow

B) Horse

C) Dog

D) Goat

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8. What Name Was Given To The Boeing B-52 Heavy Bomber That First Flew In 1952

A) Sky Fortress

B) Stratojet

C) Stratofortress

D) Jet Fortress

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9. Where Did Wilbur Wright Demonstrate Flight In Public For The First Time

A) Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

B) Dayton, Ohio

C) Paris, France

D) Northern France

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10. What Was The Family Name Of The French Brothers Who Were Pioneer Developers Of The Hot Air Balloon And Who Conducted The First Untehered Flights

A) Montgolfier

B) Rozier

C) Charles

D) Blanchard

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11. What Is The Name Of The Russian Born US Pioneer In Aircraft Design Who Is Best Known For His Successful Development Of The Helicopter

A) Alexander de Seversky

B) Elmer Sperry

C) Orville Wright

D) Igor Sikorsky

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12. Which Famous Series Of Aircraft Was Designed By Artem Mikoyan & Mikhail Gurevich

A) Sukhoi

B) Tupolev

C) Yakovlev

D) MiG

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13. Which Aircraft Manufactuer Produced The Spitfire

A) Hawker Aircraft

B) Supermarine

C) Messerschmitt

D) Fokker

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14. What Is Charles E 'Chuck' Yeagers Claim To Fame

A) First Man To Orbit The Earth

B) Inventor Of The Jet Engine

C) Led The Apollo Moon Landing

D) First Man To Fly Faster Than Sound

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15. What Was The Name Of The Java Born Dutch Aircraft Manufactuerer who, During World War I, Produced More Than 40 Types Of Airplanes For The German High Command

A) Antonius Fokker

B) Louis Blériot

C) Igor Sikorsky

D) Anthony Fokker

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16. Which Was The First International Airline To Launch A Sevice

A) Air France

B) Lufthansa

C) Pan Am

D) Klm (London To Amsterdam)

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17. Which Company Produced The Worlds First Commercial Jet Air Liner

A) Boeing

B) De Havilland (The Comet)

C) Tupolev

D) Airbus

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18. Who Invented The British Jet Engine

A) Frank Whittle

B) Hans von Ohain

C) Wernher von Braun

D) Robert Goddard

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19. Who Made The Worlds First Over The Ocean Flight In A Heavier Than Aircraft

A) The Wright brothers

B) Louis Bleriot

C) Alberto Santos-Dumont

D) Glenn Curtiss

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20. Which German Company Introduced The Interrupter Gear Enabling A Machine Gun To Fire Through An Aeroplanes Propeller

A) Albatros Flugzeugwerke

B) Fokker

C) Junkers

D) Henschel

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21. In Which Country Did Charles Lindbergh Land After The First Solo Transatlantic Flight In 1927

A) United States

B) France

C) United Kingdom

D) Spain

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22. In Which Year Was The Boeing 747 Put Into Regular Service

A) 1969

B) 1968

C) 1971

D) 1970

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23. Who Was Dubbed 'Queen Of The Air' By The British Press In The 1930's After Her Solo Flight From England To Australia

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Amy Johnson

C) Beryl Markham

D) Harriet Quimby

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24. Who was the first person to break the sound barrier?

A) Amelia Earhart

B) John Glenn

C) Chuck Yeager

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25. Near what falls did Jimmy Angel crash his plane in 1937?

A) Niagara Falls

B) Angel Falls

C) Iguazu Falls

D) Victoria Falls

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26. Which Of Hitler's Deputies Flew To Scotland In 1941?

A) Hermann Göring

B) Joachim von Ribbentrop

C) Rudolf Hess

D) Martin Bormann

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27. Two 747's collided here in 1977.

A) Paris

B) Canary islands

C) Dubai

D) New York

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28. By what name was Baron Manfred von Richthofen better known?

A) The Black Baron

B) The Blue Baron

C) The Red Baron

D) The White Baron

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29. What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane in which he completed the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight?

A) The Lone Eagle

B) The Atlantic Arrow

C) The Missouri Maid

D) Spirit of St Louis (achieved in 1927)

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30. What Did Frenchman Andre Turcat Do On 2nd March 1969

A) Test flew the Boeing 747's prototype

B) Directed the Concorde's initial flight operational team

C) Flew Concordes Maiden Voyage

D) Piloted the first flight of the Airbus A320

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31. Which type of British fighter plane shot down 1,294 enemy aircraft in World War One?

A) The Sopwith Camel

B) Sopwith Pup

C) SE.5a

D) Bristol F.2B Fighter

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32. In what war did the jet fighters first battle each other?

A) The Korean War

B) World War II

C) The Vietnam War

D) The Gulf War

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33. Who, in 1909, became the first man to fly across the English Channel

A) Henry Farman

B) Orville Wright

C) Louis Bleriot

D) Alberto Santos-Dumont

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34. Who were the first people to be elected into the Aviation Hall Of Fame?

A) Howard Hughes

B) Charles Lindbergh

C) Amelia Earhart

D) The Wright Brothers

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35. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo.

A) Charles Lindbergh

B) Bessie Coleman

C) Jacqueline Cochran

D) Amelia Earhart

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36. What ocean was amelia earhart flying over when she disappeared

A) The Atlantic Ocean

B) The pacific

C) The Indian Ocean

D) The Arctic Ocean

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37. In 1962, for what did Britain and France sign an agreement to build together?

A) Concorde

B) The space shuttle program

C) A joint nuclear submarine project

D) A shared commercial jet named Mercury

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38. What was the name of the balloon three americans piloted across the atlantic in 1978

A) The Liberty Bell II

B) The Atlantic Star

C) The Spirit of St. Louis

D) The double eagle ii

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39. In the 1855 Russian War, what were used to transport Torpedos ?

A) Balloons

B) Rowboats

C) Horse-drawn carriages

D) Kites

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40. Who Made The First Non-Stop Transatlantic Crossing In An Aeroplane?

A) Charles Lindbergh

B) Alcock & Brown

C) Amelia Earhart

D) Louis Blériot

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41. What was the name of the first plane ever to fly ?

A) Spirit of St. Louis

B) Silver Dart

C) Voisin-Farman I

D) Flyer

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