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

She was born in her grandfather's house in Atchison, which is now the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum.

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

She was trying to become the first woman to fly around the world.

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

She had gone there to visit her sister at Christmas 1917 and saw wounded soldiers returning from the front.

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

Earhart had saved $1,000 for lessons working as a photographer, truck driver and stenographer.

Q 05/05

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

A) Yellow Peril

B) Old Bessie

C) The Friendship

D) The Canary

Answer · why

D) The Canary

Yellow Peril was her car, a Kissel Speedster, and Old Bessie was a later Lockheed Vega.