Aerospace Science
JEOPARDY!!!
Aerospace Science Jeopardy Rules
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question category and number
Element members may work together to answer
question
Element leader must provide answer within 35 seconds
If answer is not provided in 35 seconds, previous
element may attempt to steal away
Other elements being loud and disruptive will be
penalized 5 points per event
Final score is number of test bonus points for each
element
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Category 1 of 1
Question:
first to fly from Albany, N.Y., to
New York City
won a $10,000 prize offered by the New
York World.
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Category 1 of 1
Answer:
Glenn Curtiss
“Fastest Man on Earth”
(p. 45)
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Category 2 of 1
Question:
formed Aerial Experiment Association
made some important aviation design
breakthroughs
built the first American plane equipped
with ailerons
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Category 2 of 1
Answer:
Alexander Graham Bell
(p. 46)
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Category 3 of 1
Question:
first man to cross the English
Channel in a heavier-than-air
craft
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Category 3 of 1
Answer:
Louis Blériot
(p. 47)
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Category 4 of 1
Question:
Inventors of the Rotary Engine
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Category 4 of 1
Answer:
Laurent and Gustav Seguin
(p. 49)
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Category 5 of 1
Question:
first to make a transcontinental
flight.
Trying to win William Randolph
Hearst $50,000 prize
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Category 5 of 1
Answer:
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
(p. 51)
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Category 1 of 2
Question:
1912 first enlisted pilot
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Category 1 of 2
Answer:
PFC Vernon Burge
(p. 52)
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Category 2 of 2
Question:
first American woman aviator
to solo in a fixed-wing airplane
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Category 2 of 2
Answer:
Blanche Stuart Scott
(p. 55)
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Category 3 of 2
Question:
first African American (male or
female) to become an airplane
pilot
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Category 3 of 2
Answer:
Bessie Coleman
(p. 54)
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Category 4 of 2
Question:
first female to gain a pilot
license in the United States.
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Category 4 of 2
Answer:
Harriet Quimby
(p. 56)
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Category 5 of 2
Question:
•the second licensed woman pilot in the United
States.
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Category 5 of 2
Answer:
Matilde Moisant
(p. 58)
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Category 1 of 3
Question:
•third woman to receive a pilot's license (on May
19, 1912) from the Aero Club of America
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Category 1 of 3
Answer:
Julia Clark
(p. 59)
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Category 2 of 3
Question:
fourth woman in the U S to earn a
pilot's license
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Category 2 of 3
Answer:
Katherine Stinson
(p. 59-60)
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Category 3 of 3
Question:
first to fully enclose the
fuselage and use ailerons
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Category 3 of 3
Answer:
Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie
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Category 4 of 3
Question:
built the Triple Twin, a two-engine,
three-propeller aircraft, in 1911
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Category 4 of 3
Answer:
Eustace, Howard, and Oswald
Short
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Category 5 of 3
Question:
designed a four-engine aircraft
called Le Grand
He flew it on 13 May 1913
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Category 5 of 3
Answer:
Russian pilot Igor Sikorsky
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Category 1 of 4
Question:
Some aviation historians think this pilot was really
the first woman to go solo
She made that flight on 13 October 1910
She and her husband, François, formed a
lightweight airplane company called the FrenchAmerican Aeroplane Company
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Category 1 of 4
Answer:
Bessica Medlar Raiche
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Category 2 of 4
Question:
in 1909 he established the first flying school in the U.S.
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Category 2 of 4
Answer:
Glenn Curtiss
(p. 45)
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Category 3 of 4
Question:
built and flew the first powered monoplane
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Category 3 of 4
Answer:
Louis Blériot
(p. 47)
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Category 4 of 4
Question:
•first civilian to purchase a Wright Flyer
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Category 4 of 4
Answer:
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
(p. 51)
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Category 5 of 4
Question:
first American of any race or gender to hold an
international pilot license.
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Category 5 of 4
Answer:
Bessie Coleman
(p. 54)
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Category 1 of 5
Question:
•first woman to fly across the English
Channel
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Category 1 of 5
Answer:
Harriet Quimby
(p. 56)
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Category 2 of 5
Question:
first woman pilot to die in an air crash
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Category 2 of 5
Answer:
Julia Clark
(p. 59)
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Category 3 of 5
Question:
•Glenn Curtiss’s only female student in 1910
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Category 3 of 5
Answer:
Blanche Stuart Scott
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Category 4 of 5
Question:
•She was also the first woman to fly at night (1911)
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Category 4 of 5
Answer:
Harriet Quimby
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Category 5 of 5
Question:
She won the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for flying at an
attitude of 2,500 feet
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Category 5 of 5
Answer:
Matilde Moisant
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