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Help me write 25 Aviation Trivia Questions!
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! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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How about sampling a few from the "test pilot" section o the AOPA pilot
section? There are always a few questions that are interesting to the non-flying public. "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02... I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-) Why? We've decided to do a month-long radio contest in January, on our most popular local radio station, promoting our aviation theme inn. It's going to be called "the '100th Anniversary of Flight Trivia Contest', sponsored by the Alexis Park Inn & Suites", and will run every day at prime "drive time". Daily winners will each receive a FREE night in one of our aviation theme suites. (It'll be something along the lines of "the tenth correct caller wins...) Thus, every day, for 25 days, the announcer will ask a different aviation trivia question that must be (a) interesting to the non-flying public, (b) hard enough to weed out the riff-raff, and (c) easy enough so that someone can actually win! Ideally, the questions should relate to the theme of our suites in some way... So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling some questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-) Thanks! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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How about sampling a few from the "test pilot" section o the AOPA pilot section? There are always a few questions that are interesting to the non-flying public. That's AOPA Pilot, as in the magazine... |
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You can learn to fly for less than:
A)the price of a new car B)the price of a new house C)the price of a new snomobile or 4 wheeler D)all of the above -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02... I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-) 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! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Q: Who wrote "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight"?
A: Red River Dave McEnery. About Red River Dave: http://www.texasmonthly.com/ranch/so...9446627770.php Listen he http://www.kroesnest.com/Kroes_Nest/...ia_earhart.htm The performance above is by the web poster, so it isn't copyright. Red River Dave used "Wabash Cannonball" for the music, so that's public domain. The lyrics themselves are (c) Red River Dave, who only died two years ago (the song was written in 1937) so they're still in copyright, but the radio station's BMI contract may cover that. Q: What was the Doolittle Raid? A: See: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...-42/dooltl.htm An amazing story of military audacity: Using the Navy to launch heavy Army bombers (B-25s) against Tokyo on April 18, 1942, the immediate effect was the destruction of the city's tinderbox slums, with great loss of civilian life, but it precipitated the battle of Midway, a month and a half later, in which four Japanese carriers were lost, permanently crippling the Japanese Navy. Q: Who was the first test pilot to roll a civilian jetliner? A: Tex Johnson, August 7, 1955. I think you must have that on your site. But if not, see: http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_id=390 Don |
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So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling some
questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-) How are runways numbered ? What's the first letter in the aircraft tail number for all US aircraft ? (wish I had been on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire that day) Fastest aircraft in history that's not a spacecraft also ? First guy to break the speed of sound in an aircraft ? |
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Q: What was the Doolittle Raid?
A: See: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...-42/dooltl.htm An amazing story of military audacity: Using the Navy to launch heavy Army bombers (B-25s) against Tokyo on April 18, 1942, the immediate effect was the destruction of the city's tinderbox slums, with great loss of civilian life, but it precipitated the battle of Midway, a month and a half later, in which four Japanese carriers were lost, permanently crippling the Japanese Navy. Wasn't the B-25 a medium bomber? I know there was a joke among B-24 pilots about B-17's being termed "heavy" bombers. |
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The commercial freight business has become one of the airlines main sources
of income in recent years. This freight can include every thing imaginable including animals. At any given moment, there is at least one of these animals in the air somewhere around the world. A horse. -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02... I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-) Why? We've decided to do a month-long radio contest in January, on our most popular local radio station, promoting our aviation theme inn. It's going to be called "the '100th Anniversary of Flight Trivia Contest', sponsored by the Alexis Park Inn & Suites", and will run every day at prime "drive time". Daily winners will each receive a FREE night in one of our aviation theme suites. (It'll be something along the lines of "the tenth correct caller wins...) Thus, every day, for 25 days, the announcer will ask a different aviation trivia question that must be (a) interesting to the non-flying public, (b) hard enough to weed out the riff-raff, and (c) easy enough so that someone can actually win! Ideally, the questions should relate to the theme of our suites in some way... So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling some questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-) Thanks! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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No propeller driven airplane is capable of breaking the sound barrier (in
level flight). The fastest propeller airplane is the Russian TU-95 Bear which has a maximum level speed of Mach 0.82 or 575mph. -- Jim Burns III Remove "nospam" to reply "Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:QL0Bb.269543$Dw6.917079@attbi_s02... I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-) 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! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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