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HI104 Aviation History Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics (PIA)
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1
Who won the Orteig Price of $25,000 on May 20-21, 1927 by making a solo flight from NY to Paris?
Charles Kingford-Smith
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earheart
Henri Mignet
2
Charles Lindbergh's plane was named after ____________________.
financial backers
his place of birth
his mother's place of birth
place where the plane was built
3
The _____________ expedition was the first to fly an airplane to the South Pole.
Byrd
Shackleton
Peary
Ross
4
What was the name of the 1
st
atomic bomb dropped?
Little Boy
Little Man
Fat Man
Fat Boy
5
Hitler withdrew Germany from the Geneva Disarmament Conference and renounced what treaty?
The Geneva Convention
Paris Peace Treaties
The Treaty of Versailles
The Armistice of 11 November 1918
6
On which city was the 1
st
atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima
Niigata
Nagasaki
Kokura
7
What was the turning point of the War in the Pacific and when did it occur?
The Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
The Battle of Iwo Jima, February 1945
The Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945
The Battle of Midway, June 1942
8
Col. Paul Tibbetts was the commanding officer of what group?
The 101st Airborne Group
The 509th Composite Group
The Tuskegee Airmen
The 703rd Bombardment Squadron
9
When did the attack on Pearl Harbor occur?
December 7, 1943
December 24, 1941
December 9, 1942
December 7, 1941
10
On what date did WWII end in Europe?
March 7, 1946
April 18, 1945
May 17, 1945
May 7, 1945
11
What was the
Wehrmacht
?
The German army
The German high command
the German parliament building
Germany's military headquarters
12
What was the name of "Lucky Lindy's" plane?
The Spirit of St. Louis
The Spruce Goose
The Enola Gay
The American Eagle
13
On what battleship did Japan officially surrender and on what date did it occur?
USS Midway, September 4, 1945
USS Missouri, September 2, 1945
USS Yorktown, September 2, 1945
USS Arizona, September 12, 1945
14
What battle in December 1944 was the last German offensive?
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Moscow
Battle of Luzon
Battle of the Bulge
15
What was the Luftwaffe?
A German division of rapid-strike bombers
The German name for airborne assaults
A German spy balloon division
The German Air Force
16
Hitler established himself as the leader of Germany's Third _________.
Zustand
Republik
Reich
Regierung
17
Hitler's attempt at the purification of German was called ________________.
the Holocaust
the Röhm Purge
the Third Reich
Die Reinigung
18
Adolf Hitler's nickname was _____________.
Der Dummkopf
Der Kuschelbär
Il Duce
Der Führer
19
What would have Amelia Earhart's next stop have been if she had not disappeared?
Fiji
Baker Island
Samoa
Howland Island
20
What did the 509
th
Composite Group do?
Fire bombing raids over Japan
The bombing of Hamburg
The Dresden bombing
Dropped nuclear bombs on Japan
21
On what date did the Hindenburg crash?
March 12, 1935
May 18, 1941
May 6, 1937
April 4, 1933
22
Who established himself as the dictator of Italy?
Benito Mussolini
Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Galeazzo Ciano
King Victor Emmanuel III
23
What did the Germans call their U-boats?
Schlachtschiff
Flugzeugträger
Sea Wolves
Underwater Vipers
24
What happened to the USS Indianapolis after it delivered the atomic bombs to Tinian Island?
It made a triumphant return to the San Diego Naval Base.
It sank a Japanese destroyer.
It fired its guns and destroyed the port city of Yokahama.
It was sunk by the Japanese.
25
On what date was the
first
atomic bomb dropped?
August 6, 1945
August 7, 1945
August 9, 1945
August 5, 1945
26
The _______________ was the dirigible that flew around the world in seven days.
R38
Hindenburg
Graf Zeppelin
USS Akron
27
In what year did that expedition occur?
1925
1920
1929
1930
28
Who designed the small, homebuilt aircraft known as
flying fleas
?
Henri Mignet
Igor Sikorsky
Alphonse Pénaud
Alberto Santos-Dumont
29
What was the aviation period marked by adventure, sport, exploration & increased safety & reliability?
Sport flying
Peacetime aviation
Barnstorming
Golden age
30
What is a
blitzkrieg
?
German term for terror weapons like the V-2
Austrian term for heavy cannon fire bombardment
German term for "lightning war" (fast-moving tank & aircraft assaults)
Austrian term for a battle that concludes in total devastation
31
What country did Hitler invade on September 1, 1939?
Austria
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Poland
32
What three countries formed the Axis Powers of WWII?
Germany, Russia and Austria
Germany, Turkey and Italy
Germany, Japan and Italy
Germany, Austria and France
33
What was the WWII American pilot volunteer group serving in China?
The Soaring Eagles
The Sky Sharks
The Winged Leopards
The Flying Tigers
34
Whose plane disappeared in July 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world?
Charles T. P. Ulm
Richard Byrd
Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
35
On what city did the US drop the
second
atomic bomb?
Kyoto
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagasaki
36
On what date did the Invasion of Normandy occur?
June 4, 1946
July 7, 1945
August 6, 1945
June 6, 1944
37
When the Germans surrendered to the Soviets in February 1943, what became the turning point on the Eastern Front?
Moscow
Stalingrad
Leningrad
St. Petersburg
38
Mussolini's nickname was ________________.
il Stronzo
Il Cazzate
Il Duce
Il Pene
39
Which airplane dropped the 2
nd
atomic bomb?
Enola Gay
Full House
Bockscar
Big Stink
40
What was
island hopping
?
Establishing outposts on islands beside Japanese island strongholds.
Hopping from island to island in order to refuel airplanes.
Rapid and surprise movement of forces to bypass Japanese strongholds.
Strategy of taking one island at a time and occupying it before moving on.
41
What is another name for the invasion of Normandy?
Operation Overland
the Battle of Berlin
the Battle of Kursk
D-Day
42
What was the name of the battleship that delivered the atomic bombs to Tinian Island?
USS Alabama
USS Arizona
USS Mississippi
USS Indianapolis
43
Where did the Hindenburg crash?
Paris, France
Brussels, Belgium
Lakehurst, NJ
Manchester, England
44
In what decade was the helicopter invented?
1940s
1930s
1920s
1910s
45
What was Hitler's concept of the
master race
?
Germans were superior to other human beings.
Jews were the master race and would dominate the world if not stopped.
Germans were the first race from which all others descended.
Germany was in a large (master) race with the Jews to conquer the world.
46
What was
The Blitz
?
German air attacks on London & other British cities.
The biggest of all the blitzkriegs of WWII.
An all-out vengeance weapon attack on France and Britain.
A decisive tank battalion attack at the Battle of the Bulge.
47
What was the most probable cause of the Hindenburg fire?
cigarettes
lightning
static electricity
the engine caught fire
48
Hitler's invasion of Poland started ______________________ in Europe.
World War II
The Battle of Stalingrad
World War I
The Battle of the Bulge
49
What strategy did Gen. Curtis Lemay develop and command?
The staggered "V" formation
Nighttime B-29 fire bombing raids of Japanese cities
The diving 155° right turn delivery of atomic bombs
Island hopping
50
On what date did the US drop the
second
atomic bomb?
August 10, 1945
August 9, 1945
August 12, 1945
August 8, 1945
51
On which city was the 2
nd
atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima
Niigata
Kokura
Nagasaki
52
What was the name of the 2
nd
atomic bomb dropped?
Fat Boy
Little Boy
Fat Man
Little Man
53
What was the Hindenburg's original proposed name?
The Adolf Hitler
The Goebbels
The Himmler
The Göring
54
Supporters of _______ (an idea, not a person) believed in racially-oriented violence and the Aryan master race.
Communism
Anarchism
Nazism
Fascism
55
Code name for the development of the atomic bomb.
Operation Overlord
Operation Paperclip
The Manhattan Project
MK Ultra
56
Who raided Tokyo on April 18, 1942 with B-25s?
Admiral Bill Halsey
General Jimmy Doolittle
General Douglas MacArthur
General George S. Patton
57
Which airplane dropped the 1
st
atomic bomb?
Bockscar
The Enola Gay
The Great Artiste
The Necessary Evil
58
What caused the United States to enter WWII?
the Great Depression
the Dresden bombing
the Holocaust
the Pearl Harbor attack
59
On what city did the US drop the
first
atomic bomb?
Kokura
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Niigata
60
What was Italy's form of government?
Socialism
Republic
Fascism
Communism