Non-Sub Trivia

[Sailor Steve]

People are having fun with Mush Martin's SubSim trivia questions, so I thought I'd throw out a couple of my own. They're pretty easy to look up, so just for fun see if you know them off the top of your heads.

First a ship one, appropriately enough about an ancient mariner, then some about flying.

1) Who was the first man to circumnavigate the Earth?

2) Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?

3) Who was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop?

4) Who was the first man to die in an airplane crash? This is not early testing, but the crash of an actual production aircraft that had already proven itself.

[Monica Lewinsky]

1. Francis Drake

2 & 3 Lindberg, Charles

4. Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge

"Rough night at Langtrees brothel" WTF is that? Having her walk accross your back with high heels on with no shirt on?

[UnderseaLcpl]

1) Kptlt. Balz

2) Santa Claus

3) Catholocism

4) Icarus, using a wax-wing model designed by his father and mass-produced to the tune of one model for use by his son. Given the production rates of earlier craft this second model increased production by 100%.

[VipertheSniper]

1.)Juan Sebastián del Cano
2.) Albert Read
3.) Edit: Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown (although that's rather debatable)
4.) don't know about the last one, Thomas Selfridge might be right.

[Platapus]

As for the second and third questions, I can recommend a great book "91 before Lindbergh" By Sir Peter Allen. An interesting read.

[VipertheSniper]

Yeah. Lindbergh was only the first to do it solo. Which I didn't know before looking it up.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Monica Lewinsky

1. Francis Drake

2 & 3 Lindberg, Charles

4. Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge?

1. nope
2 & 3. nope and nope
4. yup

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

1) Kptlt. Balz

2) Santa Claus

3) Catholocism

4) Icarus, using a wax-wing model designed by his father and mass-produced to the tune of one model for use by his son. Given the production rates of earlier craft this second model increased production by 100%.

:rotfl:

Originally Posted by VipertheSniper

1.)Juan Sebastián del Cano
2.) Albert Read
3.) Edit: Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown (although that's rather debatable)
4.) don't know about the last one, Thomas Selfridge might be right.

Very good! Especially on del Cano. I've always liked him just because he is so unremembered.

I agree with your questioning of Alcock and Brown, but they're commonly accepted.