Q 01/05

Which US president telephoned Armstrong from the Oval Office while he stood on the Moon?

A) John F. Kennedy

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Gerald Ford

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

D) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon. As he congratulated the crew, a second speech lay ready that he never had to give: one written two days earlier in case they could not ...

Q 02/05

Near which Ohio town was Armstrong born in 1930?

A) Wapakoneta

B) New Concord

C) Chillicothe

D) Sandusky

Answer · why

A) Wapakoneta

Wapakoneta. The town opened a museum to him three years to the day after the landing, and in 2017 thieves broke in and stole a solid-gold model of the...

Q 03/05

At age two, Armstrong was taken by his father to the National Air Races in which Ohio city?

A) Columbus

B) Toledo

C) Youngstown

D) Cleveland

Answer · why

D) Cleveland

Cleveland. He remembered neither that day nor his first flight, in a Ford Trimotor at about six, and said his father had no special love of aviation, ...

Q 04/05

What did Armstrong earn on his 16th birthday, before he had a driver's licence?

A) An amateur radio licence

B) A glider licence

C) A student flight certificate

D) His Eagle Scout badge

Answer · why

C) A student flight certificate

A student flight certificate. Sixteen was the youngest the rules allowed for powered aircraft, and it let him fly alone but carry no passengers; he ma...

Q 05/05

At which university did Armstrong study aeronautical engineering from 1947?

A) Ohio State

B) Purdue

C) MIT

D) Caltech

Answer · why

B) Purdue

Purdue. A Navy scholarship paid his way on condition that he break off to serve as a pilot: called up after three semesters, he did not collect his de...