Q 01/05

Which TV series' 11-foot starship filming model is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum?

A) Lost in Space

B) Star Trek

C) Doctor Who

D) Babylon 5

Answer · why

B) Star Trek

Star Trek's original USS Enterprise model reached the Smithsonian in 1974, dirty and packed in three crates. Paramount had donated it after the series...

Q 02/05

Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, now in the National Air and Space Museum, ended its 1927 solo flight where?

A) Madrid

B) Dublin

C) Lisbon

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

Paris came into view after 33 and a half hours alone in the air. The following year Lindbergh flew the plane to Washington himself and presented it to...

Q 03/05

Which Star Wars droid did model makers hide on the Close Encounters mothership at the Udvar-Hazy Center?

A) R2-D2

B) C-3PO

C) R5-D4

D) IG-88

Answer · why

A) R2-D2

R2-D2 was fixed to the underside as an in-joke by Dennis Muren, who had just finished work on Star Wars. He also tucked in a pea-sized TIE fighter.

Q 04/05

Whose Moon spacesuit did the National Air and Space Museum conserve using $719,779 raised on Kickstarter?

A) Buzz Aldrin

B) Harrison Schmitt

C) Neil Armstrong

D) Alan Shepard

Answer · why

C) Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong's suit was the star of the Moon landing's 50th anniversary in 2019, when the museum also placed 15 replicas of it in Major League Baseb...

Q 05/05

Which aviator's red Lockheed Vega, flown solo across the Atlantic in 1932, is in the National Air and Space Museum?

A) Bessie Coleman

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Beryl Markham

D) Harriet Quimby

Answer · why

B) Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart fought ice and engine trouble for almost 15 hours, then set the Vega down in a pasture in Northern Ireland. She was the first woman to ...