Help me write 25 Aviation Trivia Questions!

What did Lindbergh eat on his flight across the Atlantic.

Well? (I thought it was a sandwich?)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I thought it was a sandwich some crakers and water.
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Jim Burns III

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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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What did Lindbergh eat on his flight across the Atlantic.

Well? (I thought it was a sandwich?)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jim" wrote in message
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I thought it was a sandwich some crakers and water.
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What did he eat was the question, nothing was said about what he
drank.
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Cheers,
Jonathan Lowe.
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don't bother me with insignificiant nonsence such as spelling,
I don't care if it spelt properly
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Sometimes I fly and sometimes I just dream about it.
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Jim Burns III

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What did Lindbergh eat on his flight across the Atlantic.

Well? (I thought it was a sandwich?)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Q. What do the numbers 120 and 852 have to do with aviation?


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A. The length in feet of the first and last flights on 17 Dec 1903.

"Jay Honeck"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:

-I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better
-but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-)

Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com

Hi Jay!
Instead of having "generic" aviation questions, why not have questions
that lead the listener to your website to look for the answer. They
should probably be easy enough that some of the people driving home
should be able to get them if they are indeed aviation buffs, but that
for most people, if they want to win they will hit your site. This way,
even if you're giving away a room in the suite, the people who all called
in waiting probably hit your site and may come anyway...

I'm also not sure of how many listeners there are on the station, but you
probably want to leave enough room so that a listener believes he has
time to hop on the web and look up the answer before the game is over. So
the tenth caller may not work. I don't know if the 100th caller is too
much (here in NY, the radio stations in the 90's (92, 95, etc.) all use
the station count - eg: 92 uses the 92nd caller, 95 uses the 95th caller,
etc.)

I'm not sure if it's a 30 second spot or what, but perhaps somthing
like...

"The Wright Brothers Suite at the Alexis Park Inn is named after the
founders of modern aviation, George and Wilbur Wright. Today's 100th
Anniversary of Flight Trivia Question is... 'How long did that fateful
flight that took our country into the world of Powered Aviation last?'
Not sure of the answer? Just visit the Wright Brothers Suite at
www.AlexisParkInn.com, and you can find the answer there! That site again
is www.AlexisParkInn.com. The 100th caller gets a free one-night stay in
the Wright Brothers Suite or any suite of your choice, with Jacuzzi,
Breakfast Basket, yada, yada, yada."

Of course, a flair for the dramatic works well in NY... Not sure how it
takes in your neck of the woods. Oh, and you'd have to make sure to
embed the answer to the question somewhere on the page...

Second question might be something based on the Charles Lindburgh section
- "The Charles Lindburgh Suite at the Alexis Park Inn honors one of
America's most famous Aviators, Charles Lindburgh - the first man to fly
across the Atlantic in a single trip! Todays' 100th Anniversary of Flight
Trivia Question is... 'At what city did Lindburgh land after his fateful
and treacherous 33.5 hour trip?' Not sure of the answer? Just visit the
Charles Lindburgh Suite at www.AlexisParkInn.com, and you can find the
answer there!


One of the other posters made the comment that people can look up even
the toughest trivia questions in Google relatively quickly. So the best
bang for your buck would not necessarily be to get someone who knows a
lot about aviation. It would be to steer listeners to your website to get
them to rent rooms, even if their appreciation for aviation is only a
small piece of their significance... Of course, generating interest in
aviation might be a valuable side-effect.

Good luck!


I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who
better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-)

Why? We've decided to do a month-long radio contest in January, on our
most popular local radio station, promoting our aviation theme inn.
It's going to be called "the '100th Anniversary of Flight Trivia
Contest', sponsored by the Alexis Park Inn & Suites", and will run
every day at prime "drive time". Daily winners will each receive a FREE
night in one of our aviation theme suites. (It'll be something along
the lines of "the tenth correct caller wins...)

Thus, every day, for 25 days, the announcer will ask a different
aviation trivia question that must be (a) interesting to the non-flying
public, (b) hard enough to weed out the riff-raff, and (c) easy enough
so that someone can actually win! Ideally, the questions should
relate to the theme of our suites in some way...

So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling
some questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-)

Thanks!

"The Wright Brothers Suite at the Alexis Park Inn is named after the
founders of modern aviation, George and Wilbur Wright. Today's 100th

"George" Wright?

Wasn't he the quiet one, who played lead guitar? ;-)

(Great ideas, by the way.)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Yeah, the Wright Bros - John, Paul, George, and Ringo!

Momentary Brain Fart... I am not even sure where the heck that even came
from! Maybe I got confused with George Reddenbocker!


Either that or it must have been REALLY late!

"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:5unBb.483737
$Tr4.1328909@attbi_s03:

"The Wright Brothers Suite at the Alexis Park Inn is named after the
founders of modern aviation, George and Wilbur Wright. Today's 100th

"George" Wright?

Wasn't he the quiet one, who played lead guitar? ;-)

(Great ideas, by the way.)

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02...
I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better
but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-)

Q. What year was the first transatlantic airplane flight?
A: 1919

Most people answer 1927 and Lindbergh, which is incorrect. He was first solo.

Actually, that's probably too hard a question :-)

I think you should avoid "dead aviators" type questions, and make
the questions more relavent to your local area. And even though it
is a contest with some sort of prize, the primary goal should be to get
all the radio lisenters interested in the material. For example:

How many public-use airports are there in Iowa?
In what year did the Iowa City airport first open?
What type of aircraft was the first to land at the Iowa City airport?
How many aircraft are based at the Iowa City airport?
How many air (nautical) miles from Iowa City to First Flight Airport
at Kittyhawk?

Check into the history of your airport and find out if you have had
any famous visitors or interesting local aviation characters.

You could also use the questions to teach them a thing or two about
general aviation:

Why do aircraft pilots use nautical miles to measure distance?

Name three current manufacturers of general aviation aircraft.
(you could have lots of fun with variations: "Which of the following
companies does not build aircraft: Piper, Maule, Cirrus, Winchester")

Name the categories of aircraft defined by the FAA. (I would be that
even most pilots would leave out the recently-added "powered lift"
category)



Happy landings,
Ross Oliver

Ross Oliver wrote:
... and make the questions more relavent to your local area.
... For example:

How many public-use airports are there in Iowa?
In what year did the Iowa City airport first open?
What type of aircraft was the first to land at the Iowa City airport?
How many aircraft are based at the Iowa City airport?
How many air (nautical) miles from Iowa City to First Flight Airport
at Kittyhawk?

.... snip...

In the "currently relevant" column, some of our residents could easily
answer questions like:

How many complaints are fielded annually about the City Centre Airport?
Which current Mayor and how many small-minded city councillors would
like to see it closed?
How much money will it take to settle pending lawsuits because of
city-council reversals to signed contracts for planned improvements?

Hope they are not relevant in Iowa :-)