Q 01/05

In which US state was Amelia Earhart born in 1897?

A) Kansas

B) Iowa

C) Missouri

D) Nebraska

Answer · why

A) Kansas

Kansas gave her a rough-and-tumble childhood: born in her grandparents' Atchison house, she grew up climbing trees, sledding downhill and hunting rats...

Q 02/05

Over which ocean did Earhart disappear on 2 July 1937?

A) The Atlantic

B) The Pacific

C) The Indian

D) The Southern

Answer · why

B) The Pacific

The Pacific was the final stretch: she had already flown some 22,000 miles of her round-the-world route, and the 7,000 that remained all lay across it...

Q 03/05

During the First World War, Earhart worked as a nurse's aide in a military hospital in which city?

A) Toronto

B) Boston

C) Chicago

D) Des Moines

Answer · why

A) Toronto

Toronto also gave her the flying bug: at an air show there a stunt pilot dived at her and a friend, she stood her ground, and she later said the littl...

Q 04/05

Who gave Earhart her first flying lesson in January 1921?

A) Bessie Coleman

B) Ruth Nichols

C) Louise Thaden

D) Neta Snook

Answer · why

D) Neta Snook

Neta Snook taught her in a Curtiss Jenny while Earhart worked at a telephone company and as a photographer to help pay the fees; in 1974 Snook publish...

Q 05/05

What nickname did Earhart give her first aeroplane, a yellow Kinner Airster biplane?

A) Yellow Peril

B) Old Bessie

C) Little Red Bus

D) The Canary

Answer · why

D) The Canary

The Canary had to go when the family money ran out: she sold it and bought a yellow Kissel speedster car she called the Yellow Peril, then drove her m...