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