Women in Aviation Trivia Game

1. The first female transatlantic bomber pilot was?
A.J. Starr
Jackie Cochran
Eleanor Lawry
Blanche Noyes

2. ___________ organized the Women's Air Service Pilots and personally recruited over 1,000 pilots before the group was disbanded.
Marjorie Stinson
A. J. Starr
Jackie Cochran
Harriet Quimby

3. The first woman to break the sound barrier and consequently set a world speed record of 1,429 miles per hour in 1964 was?
Hanna Reitsch
Shannon Lucid
Wally Funk
Jackie Cochran

4. How many planes did the WASPs deliver before the end of World War II?
12225
8440
334
12650

5. Who was the American astronaut that was not born in America?
Sally Ride
Shannon Lucid
Mae Jemison
KathrynSullivan

6. Who was considered to be the third member of an early aviation team?
Raymonde de la Roche
Katharine Wright
Clara Adams
Marjorie Stinson

7. __________ earned the Iron Cross for her service to Germany during the Second World War.
Helene Dutrieu
Hanna Reitsch
Marga von Etzdorf
Bessica Raiche

8. The first American woman astronaut in space occurred ___ years after the first Soviet cosmonaut was in space.
5
10
15
20

9. The first woman pilot to make a night flight was?
Harriet Quimby
Louise Thaden
Bessie Coleman
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

10. In 1906, I was the first woman to design and build an airplane. Who am I?
Mary Myers
Katharine Wright
E. Lillian Todd
Bessica Raiche

11. In 1929, _____ became the first woman stunt pilot in the motion picture industry. She performed air stunts for Howard Hughes' film, "Hell's Angels".
Pancho Barnes
Harriet Qumiby
Ruthy Tu
Blanche Noyes

12. Though my sister was called the 'flying schoolgirl', I was called the 'flying schoolmarm' because I trained over 100 Canadian pilots. Who am I?
Marjorie Stinson
Bessie Coleman
Katherine Stinson
Raymonde de le Roche

13. Known as the "Flying Housewife", I had only 750 hours of flying time and an instrument rating when I flew solo around the world. Who am I?
Gerry Mock
Mary Myers
Ruthy Tu
Mary Bastie

14. Valentina Tereskova's space trip lasted ___ hours, which was 17 hours longer than all the U.S. Mercury astronauts put together.
20
46
57
71

15. The first woman to completely circle the globe in an airplane was
Gerry Mock
Hanna Reitsch
Amelia Earhart
Shannon Lucid