✈️ Aircraft Quiz
- Simon O'Donovan
- Feb 22, 2022
- 4 min read
“Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.” Felix Baumgartner.
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” Leonardo Da Vinci.
Discussion Points
Ask members who enjoys, or is afraid of, flying? What are the good and not so good things about it?
Has anyone ever flown a plane, glider or hot air balloon, or been in the cockpit for landing or take off?
Who has travelled the furthest by plane?
SONG BREAK. Take My Breath Away, Berlin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUis9yny_lI
Name the plane?
Name this US president?
Idioms About Flying
As high as a KITE
Come through with flying COLOURS
Fly by the seat of your PANTS
Fly off the HANDLE
Fly under the RADAR
Get off to a flying START
Straighten up and fly RIGHT
Fly too close to the SUN
Flight of FANCY
Be on automatic PILOT
Flying SCOTSMAN
Flight attendants, prepare for TAKE OFF or LANDING
Keep your seatbelts FASTENED
Bombs AWAY
Roger, over and OUT
ROUND 1. Famous Aircraft
1. Name the plane?
Who designed and built it?
2. Name the plane?
What was it infamous for?
3. Name these two aircraft, which are said to have won the 'Battle of Britain'?
4. Name this aircraft, that could take off and land vertically?
5. Name this aircraft?
How fast could it fly?
a. 1,354 mph
b. 534 mph
c. 354 mph
6. Name this aircraft?
7. Name this aircraft?
8. Name this flying team?
From the cockpit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDVCDTnOq0
9. Name this aircraft?
Can you name any of the six that launched?
10. Name the aircraft?
How many passengers can it carry?
a. 453
b. 653
c. 853
Some Heathrow landings during 'Storm Eunice' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skF2RsNmGk
ROUND 2. People
11. Name the brothers?
Name their first viable plane, which flew for the first time in 1903?
12. Name the pilot?
He was the first man to fly solo from New York to where in 1927?
13. Name the pilot?
She was the first woman to fly solo from London to where in 1930?
14. Name the pilot?
She was the first woman to fly solo across which ocean in 1932?
15. Name the pilot?
He was a flying ace in the Second World War who flew with two artificial legs.
16. Name these three Apollo 11 astronauts?
What date was did 'The Eagle' land on the surface of the moon?
The mission - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INQlaTnN2cg
17. Name this pilot?
18. Name this pilot?
What did he pilot from 2015-17?
19. Name this skydiver, who jumped from 127,851 ft in 2012?
(Anyone fancy it?)
Mission highlights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I
20. Name this 'Virgin' flyer?
Can he pilot a plane, yes or no?
ROUND 3. Movies
21. Name this 1955 movie?
Who invented the 'Bouncing Bomb'? Name the aircraft?
Whilst listening to this, ask members to make pilot goggles with their hands.
22. Name this 1959 movie?
Name the actor?
23. Name this 1965 movie?
Name the actors?
Here is the song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs
24. Name this 1975 movie?
Which gas was responsible for the disaster?
25. Name this 1980 movie?
Which actor played the doctor ("Don't call me Shirley!")?
Movie trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07pPmCfKi3U
26. Name this 1986 movie?
Can Tom Cruise fly a plane?
27. Name this 1987 movie?
What holiday were they heading home for?
28. Name this 2001 movie?
Which country launched the attack?
29. Name this 2002 movie?
Name the actor?
30. Name this 2016 movie?
On which river did he safely land the plane?
ROUND 4. Music
31. Name the two characters?
* A bonus point for anyone that can do the snigger *
32. Who created the character Snoopy?
33. What was his nickname?
34. True or False. John Denver died when he crashed his plane into Monterey Bay, California, in 1997?
35. What product did this song advertise?
36. Which ITV show did Mark Feehilly, in the middle, nearly win recently?
Here he is ...
37. What is her nickname?
38. What is Elton Hercules John's real name?
39. What was her other UK top 10 hit?
A couple of 'Wings' songs to finish ...
'Let 'Em In' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3t10NEKGdw
'Silly Love Songs' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh15LOppcWQ
40. What products still carry his late wife Linda's name?
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
Make paper planes and see how far they can fly?
Have a prize on hand for the person's whose plane flies furthest.
Or you could buy some balsa wood plane making sets. Remember winding up the elastic band?
ANSWERS
Song Question - 'Airforce One' / Barack Obama
1. 'Spruce Goose' / Howard Hughes
2. 'Enola Gay' / It carried the atomic bomb which destroyed Hiroshima on 6th August 1945
3. Spitfire & Hurricane
4. Harrier Jump Jet
5. Concord / A. 1,354 mph
6. Sea King Helicopter
7. 747
8. 'The Red Arrows'
9. Space Shuttle / 'Enterprise', 'Columbia', 'Challenger', 'Discovery', 'Atlantis' & 'Endeavour' ('Challenger' & 'Columbia' were destroyed in mission incidents in 1986 & 2003)
10. A380 / C. 853
11. The Wright Brothers / 'Kitty Hawk'
12. Charles Lindbergh / Paris, France
13. Amy Johnson / Darwin, Australia
14. Amelia Earhart / Atlantic
15. Douglas Bader
16. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins / 20th July 1969
17. John Travolta
18. Prince William / East Anglian Air Ambulance
19. Felix Baumgartner
20. Richard Branson / No
21. 'The Dambusters' / Barnes Wallace / Lancaster Bomber
22. 'North By North West' / Cary Grant
23. 'Those Magnificent Men In Their Flaying Machines' / Terry Thomas & Eric Sykes
24. 'The Hindenburg' / Hydrogen
25. 'Airplane' / Lesley Nielsen
26. 'Top Gun' / Yes
27. 'Planes, Trains And Automobiles' / Thanksgiving
28. 'Pearl Harbour' / Japan
29. 'Catch Me If You Can' / Leonardo DiCaprio
30. 'Sully' / Hudson
31. Dick Dastardly & Muttley
32. Charles Schulz
33. 'Old Blue Eyes'
34. True
35. 'Nimble'
36. 'The Masked Singer'
37. 'The Divine Miss M'
38. Reginald Dwight
39. 'Almaz'
40. Vegetarian Meat Substitutes
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