John Gillespie Magee Jr. - Quiz
John Gillespie Magee Jr
  • 1. In what month and year did John Gillespie Magee Jr. join the R.C.A.F.?
A) September 1941
B) June 1941
C) August 1941
D) October 1940
  • 2. Where did Magee receive his elementary flight training?
A) Digby
B) Llandow
C) Ottawa
D) St. Catharines
  • 3. How many hours of dual instruction did Magee have before he soloed?
A) Eleven
B) Twelve
C) Ten
D) Six
  • 4. In what city did Magee pass his Wings Test in June 1941?
A) St. Catharines
B) Ottawa
C) London
D) Cardiff
  • 5. At which RAF station did Magee perform his first flight in a Spitfire?
A) Digby
B) Wellingore
C) Manston
D) Llandow
  • 6. On what date did Magee fly to 33,000 feet, the flight believed to have inspired his poem?
A) 18 August 1941
B) 23 September 1941
C) 7 August 1941
D) 20 October 1941
  • 7. To which squadron was Magee assigned after completing training at No. 53 Operational Training Unit?
A) No. 412 (Fighter) Squadron
B) No. 2 Service Flying Training School
C) No. 53 Operational Training Unit
D) No. 9 Elementary Flying Training School
  • 8. Who commanded the 'Digby Wing' where Magee was stationed?
A) Hart Massey
B) Vincent Massey
C) Cowboy Blatchford
D) Joachim Müncheberg
  • 9. Which aircraft model did No. 412 Squadron switch to shortly after Magee arrived?
A) Hurricane Mk I
B) Messerschmitt Bf 109
C) Supermarine Spitfire Mk II
D) Supermarine Spitfire Mk Vb
  • 10. To which station did the squadron move on 20 October 1941?
A) RAF West Malling
B) RAF Wellingore
C) RAF Digby
D) RAF Llandow
  • 11. What was the target of the bombing raid on 8 November 1941?
A) RAF Manston
B) Dunkirk coastal defenses
C) The English Channel fleet
D) Railway workshops at Lille
  • 12. Who shot down the members of Magee's four-ship section during the Lille raid?
A) Cowboy Blatchford
B) Joachim Müncheberg
C) Vincent Massey
D) Hart Massey
  • 13. How many rounds of ammunition did Magee fire during his engagement on 8 November 1941?
A) 500
B) 100
C) 160
D) 300
  • 14. How many successful claims did Magee make for damaging enemy aircraft during his career?
A) One
B) Three
C) Four
D) Zero
  • 15. How many convoy patrols did Magee fly in late November and early December 1941?
A) Four
B) Two
C) One
D) Three
  • 16. What famous sonnet was written by John Gillespie Magee Jr.?
A) The Fallen
B) Skyros Sunset
C) Wings of War
D) High Flight
  • 17. In which city was John Gillespie Magee Jr. born?
A) London
B) Shanghai
C) Pittsburgh
D) Nanking
  • 18. What was the occupation of Magee's parents?
A) Lawyers
B) Soldiers
C) Poets
D) Missionaries
  • 19. Magee's mother, Faith Emmeline Backhouse, was from which English county?
A) Suffolk
B) Essex
C) Kent
D) Surrey
  • 20. Which school in England did Magee attend from 1935 to 1939?
A) Avon Old Farms School
B) American School in Nanking
C) St Clare
D) Rugby School
  • 21. Which poet did Magee emulate in his writing style?
A) W.B. Yeats
B) Wilfred Owen
C) Rupert Brooke
D) T.S. Eliot
  • 22. What was the subject of the poem that won Magee the Poetry Prize in 1938?
A) The burial of Rupert Brooke
B) The outbreak of World War II
C) His time in Shanghai
D) Life as a pilot
  • 23. Who was the daughter of the Rugby School headmaster that Magee fell in love with?
A) Alice Mellon
B) Faith Backhouse
C) Mary Stabler
D) Elinor Lyon
  • 24. Which wealthy family was part of Magee's extended family in Pittsburgh?
A) The Carnegies
B) The Rockefellers
C) The Vanderbilts
D) The Mellons
  • 25. What did Magee do during the 1939–1940 school year because he could not travel to Britain?
A) Continued at Rugby School
B) Attended Avon Old Farms School
C) Enrolled at Yale University
D) Joined the Royal Canadian Air Force
  • 26. How did Magee die in 1941?
A) Mid-air collision
B) Illness in the hospital
C) Shot down by enemy fire
D) Accidental fall
  • 27. What reason did Magee give his father for enjoying his social life despite the state of the world?
A) He felt he had earned a reward for his academic success
B) He wanted to impress his teachers
C) He was trying to escape his missionary duties
D) His generation did not expect to live long
  • 28. Which military organization did Magee join to learn to fly?
A) Royal Air Force
B) United States Navy
C) United States Army Air Service
D) Royal Canadian Air Force
  • 29. What was the location of the cat rescue incident involving Magee?
A) Martha's Vineyard
B) Rugby School
C) Avon Old Farms School
D) Pittsburgh
  • 30. Where was Rupert Brooke buried?
A) London
B) Pittsburgh
C) Shanghai
D) Skyros
  • 31. What was the serial number of the Spitfire Magee flew on the day of his death?
A) VZ-H
B) AD291
C) T1052
D) AD412
  • 32. How old was Magee at the time of his death?
A) 20
B) 18
C) 19
D) 21
  • 33. What was the name of the other pilot involved in the mid-air collision?
A) S. K. Belton
B) Archibald MacLeish
C) Ernest Aubrey Griffin
D) No. 412
  • 34. Over which hamlet did the mid-air collision occur?
A) Ruskington
B) Scopwick
C) Wellingore
D) Roxholme
  • 35. What was the occupation of the witness who saw Magee struggling with the canopy?
A) Pilot
B) Farmer
C) Librarian
D) Padre
  • 36. Where is Magee buried?
A) Saint John's Episcopal Church
B) Library of Congress
C) Holy Cross Church in Scopwick
D) RAF Wellingore
  • 37. Who helped make High Flight widely known through a Library of Congress exhibition?
A) Ernest Aubrey Griffin
B) S. K. Belton
C) Magee's father
D) Archibald MacLeish
  • 38. What was the altitude of the aircraft collision?
A) 1,400 feet
B) 1,900 feet
C) 412 feet
D) 1,100 feet
  • 39. Who conducted Magee's funeral service?
A) Ernest Aubrey Griffin
B) A local farmer
C) Archibald MacLeish
D) S. K. Belton
  • 40. Which actress recited 'High Flight' during the Hollywood Victory Caravan?
A) Cary Grant
B) Bing Crosby
C) Laurel and Hardy
D) Merle Oberon
  • 41. In what year did the Hollywood Victory Caravan tour the United States?
A) 1943
B) 1941
C) 1942
D) 1940
  • 42. Where was the Hollywood Victory Caravan performance held on 30 April 1942?
A) Loew's Capitol Theatre
B) Cadet Field House
C) Canadian War Museum
D) National Air Force Museum
  • 43. Which family members of John Gillespie Magee Jr. were acknowledged at the 30 April 1942 performance?
A) Mother and sister
B) Father and sister
C) Mother and brother
D) Father and brother
  • 44. Who must recite 'High Flight' from memory at the United States Air Force Academy?
A) Fourth class cadets
B) First class cadets
C) Graduating seniors
D) Academy instructors
  • 45. Where is 'High Flight' displayed at the United States Air Force Academy?
A) Airfield hangar
B) Commandant's office
C) Main library
D) Cadet Field House
  • 46. Where is the poem 'High Flight' inscribed in full?
A) Canadian War Museum
B) National Air Force Museum of Canada
C) Arlington National Cemetery
D) Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial
  • 47. Who composed the piece 'Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew'?
A) James Curnow
B) Cary Grant
C) John Gillespie Magee Jr.
D) Merle Oberon
  • 48. In what year did the piece 'Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew' debut?
A) 1912
B) 1941
C) 1993
D) 1942
  • 49. What is the motto of several Commonwealth air forces?
A) High Flight
B) Ad Astra Per Aspera
C) Per ardua ad astra
D) Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew
  • 50. In what year was the motto 'Per ardua ad astra' first used?
A) 1942
B) 1993
C) 1941
D) 1912
  • 51. Which poem is suggested as potentially the last one written by Magee?
A) The Aviator's Dream
B) Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew
C) High Flight
D) Per Ardua
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