Q 01/05

Which children's author mocked Lindbergh's isolationism in a run of wartime newspaper cartoons?

A) Roald Dahl

B) Dr. Seuss

C) E. B. White

D) Maurice Sendak

Answer · why

B) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss, before the children's classics, drew more than 400 political cartoons for the New York paper PM, and Lindbergh's campaign against entering ...

Q 02/05

Lindbergh's aircraft, the Spirit of St. Louis, was named in honour of what?

A) His mother's Missouri birthplace

B) The saint he prayed to

C) The airline he flew for

D) The city whose backers financed it

Answer · why

D) The city whose backers financed it

The city whose backers financed it. Lindbergh was flying the mail from there when he persuaded a group of local businessmen to pay for the attempt, an...

Q 03/05

How much was the Orteig Prize that Lindbergh's flight won?

A) $2,500

B) $25,000

C) $250,000

D) $2.5 million

Answer · why

B) $25,000

$25,000. Hotel owner Raymond Orteig put it up in 1919 for five years; nobody even tried in that time, so he renewed the offer, and Lindbergh collected...

Q 04/05

What did Lindbergh struggle against for much of his 33½-hour flight to Paris?

A) A faltering engine

B) The urge to sleep

C) A jammed rudder

D) Violent airsickness

Answer · why

B) The urge to sleep

The urge to sleep. He had barely slept the night before, and over the ocean he kept dozing off for seconds at a time and began to hallucinate; the dro...

Q 05/05

Which British pair had already flown the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh?

A) Hawker and Grieve

B) Alcock and Brown

C) Nungesser and Coli

D) Chamberlin and Levine

Answer · why

B) Alcock and Brown

Alcock and Brown. They took off from Newfoundland and ended nose-down in a bog; Lindbergh's New York to Paris route was nearly twice as long, and he f...