Horrible! Went from 10/10 yesterday to 5/10 today, and those 5 points are thanks to a bit of luck. I have to expand my knowledge about aviation history
I mainly know it because of The Simpsons parody where Mr Burns becomes a recluse and shows off a tiny wooden plane he made:
"Smithers, I've designed a new plane! I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes!"
I know Q3 specifies the first *major* war to use planes, but to be precise the first conflict involving the use of planes was the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12.
It did see a huge expansion of Italy's overseas empire (Libya and the Aegean) so as an historian I'd say this counts as a major war...
It’s my patriotic duty to comment that New Zealand’s Richard Pearse demonstrated flight in an airplane before the Wright Brothers.
There are some technical disputes over whether he should be credited as the first to fly because it many not have been “full navigational control” - but he certainly took off and landed in an airplane before the Wright Brothers.
I somehow had the feeling that Angel Falls could have been discovered by flying over it, but couldn't believe that the pilots name was Angel when that's just a good name for an idyllic place/view.
Yeah I took ages on that one for the same reason. I knew I'd heard about Angel Falls being discovered very late, but the name made me lean towards Ayers Rock for a while
I'm confused about Q10. Google says Piccard and his co-pilot were the first to achieve this in 1999, but Fossett was the first to achieve it solo. I know 2002 is technically a hint here, but that feels like a super vague question for something only few people are gonna know anyway
7/10, but you know it was a tough quiz when that still get syou better than 76% of test takers. I missed the city one, I said Atlantic after hovering over Pacific, and had no idea on the hot air balloon.
8/10 for me today, and was lucky to get that, considering Angel Falls was an educated guess, and Charles Kingsford Smith was a total shot in the dark. Messed up on the Spruce Goose though (went for Flying Fortress even though I should know that's a B-something), as well as the balloon question (mostly blind guess; could only rule out Branson).
In other news, though, it's my birthday, so hopefully this level of difficulty won't be setting the tone for the rest of the day 😂
Wow! Even with a super tough quiz I still manage to 'fly' high with my score ;). Haha, but seriously, I only got a regrettable 6 out of 10 today, but as they say, tomorrow is another day!
Question 10 must be one of the hardest I've seen on these quizzes. Doesn't seem like it at a glance but with a guess distribution of 21% 24% 27% and 29% it seems almost everyone was taking a stab in the dark.
In other news I got 9/10, I didn't know anything about the plane crash question
"Smithers, I've designed a new plane! I call it the Spruce Moose, and it will carry 200 passengers from New York's Idlewild Airport to the Belgian Congo in 17 minutes!"
"That's quite a nice model sir."
"Model?"
It did see a huge expansion of Italy's overseas empire (Libya and the Aegean) so as an historian I'd say this counts as a major war...
There are some technical disputes over whether he should be credited as the first to fly because it many not have been “full navigational control” - but he certainly took off and landed in an airplane before the Wright Brothers.
9/10
Lucky guess on 9th question though.
Not a strong subject for me.
In other news, though, it's my birthday, so hopefully this level of difficulty won't be setting the tone for the rest of the day 😂
You got 10 of 10 correct
With time bonus, your score is 9,809
You beat or equaled 99% of test takers
You are #1 on your friend leaderboard!
This is your 9th best score all-time
With time bonus, your score is 9,813
You beat or equaled 99% of test takers
You are #1 on your friend leaderboard!
Some great questions.
I live within sight of WLG airport. Next to it is a restaurant called Spruce Goose.
Two were 50-50 guesses. Both times I went against my gut. Both times I was wrong.