Women in aviation - Quiz
Women in aviation
  • 1. Who taught Harriet Quimby how to fly?
A) Nancy Harkness Love
B) John Moisant
C) Jerrie Cobb
D) A flight instructor from the Lovelace Foundation
  • 2. Which aviation feat was Harriet Quimby the first woman to achieve?
A) Flying across the English Channel
B) Flying across the Atlantic Ocean
C) Flying around the world
D) Flying non-stop across the United States
  • 3. In which publication did Harriet Quimby discuss women's confidence in aviation?
A) Women in the Air
B) Aviation as a Feminine Sport
C) The Pilot's Journal
D) The Aviation Weekly
  • 4. What did Harriet Quimby warn pilots against?
A) Flying at night
B) Being overconfident
C) Flying in the rain
D) Ignoring weather reports
  • 5. At what age did Nancy Harkness Love fly a plane from Boston to Poughkeepsie?
A) 17
B) 28
C) 18
D) 16
  • 6. What was the main organization Nancy Harkness Love directed?
A) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
B) Civil Aeronautics Administration
C) Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
D) Lovelace Foundation
  • 7. What specific ratings did Nancy Harkness Love earn in 1940?
A) CAA instrument rating and a seaplane rating
B) Jet engine rating and military transport rating
C) Private pilot license and helicopter rating
D) Commercial pilot license and instructor rating
  • 8. What was Jerrie Cobb's first aircraft?
A) Cessna 150
B) Boeing PT-17
C) Piper Cub
D) Fairchild PT-23
  • 9. How did Jerrie Cobb fund the purchase of her first aircraft?
A) Inheritance from her father
B) Working as a flight instructor
C) Playing semi-professional softball
D) A grant from the Lovelace Foundation
  • 10. How many Mercury astronaut tests did Jerrie Cobb pass?
A) 12
B) 75
C) 100
D) 32
  • 11. Why was Jerrie Cobb eventually dropped from Project Mercury?
A) Lacking jet piloting experience
B) Failing the final medical exam
C) Political interference
D) Age restrictions
  • 12. At what age did Jerrie Cobb receive her commercial pilot license?
A) 18
B) 28
C) 17
D) 21
  • 13. What was the occupation of Jerrie Cobb's father?
A) Football coach
B) Aviation journalist
C) Commercial pilot
D) Military officer
  • 14. What was the primary role of the WAFS organization?
A) Providing weather reports for the military
B) Designing new military jets
C) Recruiting pilots for commercial airlines
D) Testing aircraft, ferrying aircraft, and training pilots
  • 15. In what year did Nancy Harkness Love pass away?
A) 1976
B) 1914
C) 2019
D) 1940
  • 16. Which major U.S. airline hired the first female pilot in 1973?
A) United Airlines
B) Delta Air Lines
C) American Airlines
D) Pan Am
  • 17. When did the U.S. military finally open fighter jet flights to women?
A) 1999
B) 1993
C) 1984
D) 1976
  • 18. Who was the first international woman ferry pilot to fly over 340 times across the Atlantic and Pacific?
A) Louise Sacchi
B) Patrice Clarke
C) Jill Brown-Hiltz
D) Asli Hassan Abade
  • 19. Which airline hired Turi Widerøe as a pilot in late 1968?
A) Air France
B) Scandinavian Airlines System
C) Lufthansa
D) British Airways
  • 20. In what year did the first graduating class of female Air Force officers earn their Silver Wings?
A) 1974
B) 1979
C) 1977
D) 1982
  • 21. Who became the first African American woman to fly for a commercial airline in the United States in 1978?
A) M'Lis Ward
B) Jill Brown-Hiltz
C) Shirley Tyus
D) Matice Wright
  • 22. Who was the first woman to fly a Boeing 747 in 1980?
A) Beverly Burns
B) Lynn Rippelmeyer
C) Aurora Carandang
D) Barbara Cassani
  • 23. Who was the first woman to launch missiles in combat during Operation Desert Fox?
A) Caroline Aigle
B) Kendra Williams
C) Matice Wright
D) Kelly J. Franke
  • 24. In 1998, who became the first female CEO of a commercial airline?
A) Julie Ann Gibson
B) Barbara Cassani
C) Erma Johnson
D) Olive Ann Beech
  • 25. Who was the first woman to captain a smoke jumper aircraft?
A) Rebecca Mpagi
B) Dee Brasseur
C) Deanne Schulman
D) Charlotte Larson
  • 26. What is the name of the first woman from Tonga to earn a pilot's license?
A) Nicole Chang Leng
B) Yichida Ndlovu
C) Asnath Mahapa
D) Silva McLeod
  • 27. Who was the first female solo pilot in the Indian Air Force?
A) Laliuma Nabizada
B) Khatool Mohammadzai
C) Harita Kaur Deol
D) Latifa Nabizada
  • 28. How many women trainees did the PLAAF enroll in 1951?
A) 14
B) 44
C) 55
D) 160
  • 29. How many pilots graduated from the first PLAAF class in 1952?
A) 14
B) 6
C) 5
D) 30
  • 30. How many trainees completed the second PLAAF class in 1956?
A) 55
B) 44
C) 30
D) 160
  • 31. Which air force was the only one in the world with female jet fighter pilots in late 1952?
A) ROK Air Force
B) PLAAF
C) Royal Air Force
D) North Korean Air Force
  • 32. What type of aircraft did Tha Sen Hi fly in combat?
A) Helicopter
B) Canadair Sabre 3
C) Dassault Mirage IIIR
D) MiG-15
  • 33. Who was the first woman to earn a pilot license in Jamaica?
A) Dorothy Rungeling
B) Jean Ross Howard Phelan
C) Earsley Barnett
D) Kim Kyung-Oh
  • 34. Who was the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953?
A) Jacqueline Auriol
B) Earsley Barnett
C) Tha Sen Hi
D) Jacqueline Cochran
  • 35. Which aircraft did Jacqueline Cochran use to break the sound barrier?
A) Canadair Sabre 3
B) Dassault Mirage IIIR
C) Boeing 707
D) MiG-15
  • 36. Who was the first woman to fly at twice the speed of sound?
A) Jacqueline Cochran
B) Jacqueline Auriol
C) Kim Kyung-Oh
D) Dorothy Rungeling
  • 37. What aircraft did Jacqueline Auriol use to fly at twice the speed of sound?
A) Dassault Mirage IIIR
B) F-86
C) Canadair Sabre 3
D) MiG-15
  • 38. In what year did the WAVES lift the ban on women serving as mechanics?
A) 1956
B) 1952
C) 1953
D) 1951
  • 39. Who was the only South Korean woman to serve as a pilot in the ROK Air Force during the Korean War?
A) Dorothy Rungeling
B) Tha Sen Hi
C) Kim Kyung-Oh
D) Earsley Barnett
  • 40. Who started the Whirly-Girls in 1955?
A) Jean Ross Howard Phelan
B) Earsley Barnett
C) Jacqueline Cochran
D) Dorothy Rungeling
  • 41. Who became Canada's first woman to solo pilot a helicopter in 1958?
A) Earsley Barnett
B) Jacqueline Auriol
C) Kim Kyung-Oh
D) Dorothy Rungeling
  • 42. Which country modeled its air force on the British Royal Air Force in the late 1950s?
A) China
B) Jamaica
C) South Korea
D) Pakistan
  • 43. Who was the first woman to perform the feat of walking from one plane to another?
A) Ethel Dare
B) Pancho Barnes
C) Phoebe Fairgrave
D) Amelia Earhart
  • 44. Which country did Kwon Ki-ok become the first female licensee of in 1925?
A) Japan
B) Korea
C) Vietnam
D) China
  • 45. Who was the first woman to fly for an airline?
A) Louise Thaden
B) Marga von Etzdorf
C) Karolina Borchardt
D) Eileen Vollick
  • 46. Who became the first woman to earn a master's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1929?
A) Elsie MacGill
B) Sarla Thakral
C) Hazel Ying Lee
D) Marina Raskova
  • 47. What was the name of the organization formed by 26 women pilots in 1929?
A) The Air Derby Guild
B) The Sky Sisters
C) The Aviation Pioneers
D) The Ninety-Nines
  • 48. Who made the first England to Australia flight by a woman in 1930?
A) Amy Johnson
B) Antonie Strassmann
C) Mildred Mary Bruce
D) Amelia Earhart
  • 49. Who was the first woman to fly around the world alone?
A) Hanna Reitsch
B) Amy Johnson
C) Amelia Earhart
D) Mildred Mary Bruce
  • 50. Which university did Amelia Earhart teach aviation classes at during the 1930s?
A) The Boeing School of Aeronautics
B) Harvard University
C) Purdue University
D) Oxford University
  • 51. Who was the first Arab woman to earn a pilot's license?
A) Sarla Thakral
B) Sabiha Gökçen
C) Lotfia ElNadi
D) Lee Ya-Ching
  • 52. Who was the first female instructor at the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy?
A) Hanna Reitsch
B) Lotfia ElNadi
C) Marina Raskova
D) Hazel Ying Lee
  • 53. Who became the first woman licensed by China as a pilot in 1936?
A) Lee Ya-Ching
B) Sarla Thakral
C) Hazel Ying Lee
D) Kwon Ki-ok
  • 54. Who was the first Indian woman to fly?
A) Nancy Bird Walton
B) Lotfia ElNadi
C) Lee Ya-Ching
D) Sarla Thakral
  • 55. Who was the first woman to earn a helicopter pilot's license?
A) Jacqueline Cochran
B) Amelia Earhart
C) Nancy Bird Walton
D) Hanna Reitsch
  • 56. Who was the first trained woman combat pilot?
A) Marina Raskova
B) Sabiha Gökçen
C) Hanna Reitsch
D) Hazel Ying Lee
  • 57. What term was formerly used to refer to women pilots?
A) Aviator
B) Aeronaut
C) Pilotess
D) Aviatrix
  • 58. In what year did women begin flying powered aircraft?
A) 1908
B) 1910
C) 1903
D) 1929
  • 59. Which organization was founded by Marie Surcouf in 1909?
A) Women of Aviation Worldwide
B) The Aviation Pioneers Club
C) The Ninety-Nines
D) Aéroclub féminin la Stella
  • 60. Which country currently has the highest percentage of women pilots?
A) France
B) India
C) United Kingdom
D) United States
  • 61. Who was the first woman known to fly in a hot air balloon?
A) Jeanne Labrosse
B) Élisabeth Thible
C) Sophie Blanchard
D) Aida de Acosta
  • 62. What happened to Sophie Blanchard in 1819?
A) She completed her 1,000th flight
B) She became Napoleon's advisor
C) She fell to her death after her balloon caught fire
D) She retired from aviation
  • 63. Who is considered the first woman to pilot a motorized aircraft?
A) Emma Lilian Todd
B) Aida de Acosta
C) Katharine Wright
D) Thérèse Peltier
  • 64. What was Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick's primary contribution to aviation?
A) Parachuting
B) Flight instruction
C) Air traffic control
D) Designing airplanes
  • 65. Who was the first woman to fly as a passenger in an airplane?
A) Edith Berg
B) Thérèse Peltier
C) Katharine Wright
D) Mlle P. Van Pottelsberghe de la Poterie
  • 66. How did Orville Wright react to Katharine Wright's marriage?
A) He supported her move
B) He offered her a job
C) He celebrated with her
D) He ostracized her
  • 67. Approximately what was the global percentage of women airline pilots as of 2021?
A) 26%
B) 14%
C) 8.2%
D) 4.7%
  • 68. What profession was Edith Berg associated with regarding fashion inspiration?
A) The goggles
B) The hobble skirt
C) The flight suit
D) The pilot's cap
  • 69. Which woman is credited as the world's first certified Flight Nurse?
A) Marie Marvingt
B) Bessica Raiche
C) Hilda Hewlett
D) Lydia Zvereva
  • 70. Who was the first woman to fly with a passenger?
A) Harriet Quimby
B) Blanche Scott
C) Lilian Bland
D) Hélène Dutrieu
  • 71. Which woman designed and flew a glider in Belfast before earning a pilot's license?
A) Hilda Hewlett
B) Božena Laglerová
C) Lilian Bland
D) Melli Beese
  • 72. Who was known as the "Tomboy of the Air"?
A) Katherine Stinson
B) Ruth Law
C) Matilde E. Moisant
D) Blanche Scott
  • 73. Who received a gold medal for being the first American woman to make a solo flight?
A) Harriet Quimby
B) Bessica Raiche
C) Ruth Law
D) Blanche Scott
  • 74. Who was the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane?
A) Jane Herveu
B) Harriet Quimby
C) Hélène Dutrieu
D) Raymonde de Laroche
  • 75. Which woman performed the first aerobatic loop made by a woman in 1914?
A) Lydia Zvereva
B) Matilde E. Moisant
C) Katherine Stinson
D) Ruth Law
  • 76. Who was the first British woman to earn a pilot's license?
A) Hilda Hewlett
B) Lilian Bland
C) Harriet Quimby
D) Cheridah de Beauvoir Stocks
  • 77. Who became the first female test pilot in 1913?
A) Rosina Ferrario
B) Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu
C) Lyubov Golanchikova
D) Melli Beese
  • 78. Who was the first woman air mail pilot?
A) Blanche Scott
B) Katherine Stinson
C) Harriet Quimby
D) Ruth Law
  • 79. Where was Ann Maria Bocciarelli from, who was the first woman on the African continent to earn a pilot's license?
A) Kenya
B) South Africa
C) Nigeria
D) Egypt
  • 80. Who was the first female pilot in Italy?
A) Lilly Steinschneider
B) Božena Laglerová
C) Rosina Ferrario
D) Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu
  • 81. Who was the first female pilot in the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
A) Božena Laglerová
B) Jane Herveu
C) Lilly Steinschneider
D) Melli Beese
  • 82. Which country did Hélène Dutrieu represent as its first woman pilot?
A) Belgium
B) Germany
C) France
D) Russia
  • 83. By 1944, how many women had been trained as Link Trainer operators to teach male pilots instrument reading?
A) Around 6,000
B) Around 1,000
C) Around 500
D) Around 10,000
  • 84. In what year did the WASPs retroactively earn veteran status?
A) 1990
B) 1979
C) 1944
D) 1950
  • 85. Who was the only WAVE to wear wings for air-navigation during World War II?
A) Jacqueline Cochran
B) Frances Biadosz
C) Patricia W. Malone
D) Nancy Harkness Love
  • 86. Who became the first South African woman to enter full-time military service in 1940?
A) Joan Hughes
B) Mona Friedlander
C) Phyllis Dunning
D) Margaret Cunnison
  • 87. Who commanded the British civilian Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) women pilots?
A) Gabrielle Patterson
B) Amy Johnson
C) Pauline Gower
D) Marion Wilberforce
  • 88. Which Chilean woman flew for the ATA and later became the first woman pilot of the French Air Force?
A) Margot Duhalde
B) Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten
C) Lydia Litvyak
D) Ada Rogato
  • 89. Who was the first woman to fly a helicopter in combat?
A) Margot Duhalde
B) Valérie André
C) Yekaterina Budanova
D) Lydia Litvyak
  • 90. What was the nickname of the 588th Night-Bomber Air-Regiment?
A) Night Witches
B) The Tamansky Guards
C) The Flying Angels
D) The Steel Birds
  • 91. In 1948, who became the first female agricultural pilot in Brazil?
A) Wendy Yawching
B) Ada Rogato
C) Isabella Ribeiro de Cabral
D) Lee Jeong-hee
  • 92. What task was Ada Rogato hired to perform by the Brazilian government in 1948?
A) Transporting mail
B) Crop dust coffee fields
C) Teaching instrument flight
D) Mapping the Andes
  • 93. What were female flight attendants known as in the 1960s?
A) Stewardesses
B) Flight staff
C) Air hostesses
D) Cabin crew
  • 94. Which 1963 movie depicted stewardesses as stylish seekers of romance?
A) Coffee, Tea or Me?
B) Jet Set Adventures
C) Girl on a Wing
D) Come Fly with Me
  • 95. In what year was the book 'Coffee, Tea or Me?' published?
A) 1967
B) 1963
C) 1960
D) 1969
  • 96. At what age did airlines policy require stewardesses to retire in 1963?
A) 30
B) 40
C) 32
D) 35
  • 97. Who became the first woman air traffic controller in Australia in 1960?
A) Jacqueline Cochran
B) Olga Tarling
C) Frankie O'Kane
D) Yvonne Pope Sintes
  • 98. Who was the first woman Tunisian pilot?
A) Turi Widerøe
B) Lucille Golas
C) Alia Menchari
D) Asegedech Assefa
  • 99. How many women recruits passed NASA's physical requirements in the Woman in Space Program?
A) Thirteen
B) Seven
C) Fifteen
D) Ten
  • 100. Who became the first woman in space?
A) Betty Miller
B) Geraldine Mock
C) Valentina Tereshkova
D) Jacqueline Auriol
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