Aero Quiz Prelims With Answers

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• There are no rules.

• I’m kidding, there are rules.

No using cell phones, tablets, Laptops, PCsENIACs, Abacii etc to cheat.

• Teams of 2 or 3 will be allowed.

• Please don’t look about during the quiz.

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1. Let us begin.

Where was the first fixed-wing aircraft flight

accomplished?

Clue: Give us the wright answers.

Answer

• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

2. What is peculiar about the image below?

Answer

• The first image sent by the Mars Rover-

Curiosity.

3. The eye of the beholder

What are the odd looking contraptions shown above?

Answer

• The 2- megapixel camera “Mastcam” that took

the picture in the previous question.

*4. Former avatar of which Indian airline?

Answer

• Spice Jet.

6. Identify the person and his legacy.

● Ernst _________ was an Austrian physicist and philosopher,remembered for his contributions to physics such as the study of shock waves

● He described how passing the sound barrier caused thecompression of air in front of bullets and shells. Using a so-called"schlierenmethode" he and his son Ludwig were able to photographthe shadows of the invisible shock waves.

● _________'s paper on this subject was published in 1877 andcorrectly describes the sound effects observed during thesupersonic motion of a projectile

● As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logicalpositivism and through his criticism of Newton, a forerunner of Einstein's relativity.

Answer

• The Mach number. His last name was Mach.

5. Connect

Answer

• The names of various airports of India

• Which company owns the worlds largest

airplane assembly building which is also the

largest building in the world by volume?

Bonus points will be awarded for the location

of the factory.

Answer

• Boeing, the Boeing Everett Factory in Everett,

Washington.

8. All are different types of what?

Compound, Recursive, Reflex, Composite, Self,

Mongol… ( The common ones have been

excluded )

Answer

• Bows! We left out Long, Cross and short bows

the most common types.

10. What are these fabled creatures called?

Answer

• The Great Leonopteryx or the Toruk meaning

Last shadow in Na’vi from the movie Avatar

9. It gives you wings!

What was the name of the project that

recently involved Austrian Skydiver Felix

Baugartner’s record breaking dive from space?

Answer

• Red Bull Stratos.

10. Theorized internal structure of what?

Answer

• Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.

11. What are they talking about?

• Voted as India's Favourite Airline.

• Rated as Asia Pacific's Top Airline Brand.

• Brand Leadership Award.

• Economic Times Avaya Award 2006 for Excellence in CustomerResponsiveness.

• India's No. 1 Airline in customer satisfaction by Business World.

• Rated amongst India's most respected companies by BusinessWorld.

• Rated amongst India's 25 Innovative Companies by PlanmanMedia in 2006.

• The Best Airline" and "India's Favourite Carrier' in a Surveyconducted by IMB for The Times Of India.

Answer

• Kingfisher Airlines. (No joke!)

12. R.I.P

Zeus, Percival and Constance were some of thenames considered for this, but were eventuallydisregarded. On 14 March 1930, Falconer Madan,a former librarian at the University of Oxford's

Bodleian Library, read a bit of news in The Times.During the course of a conversation with hisgranddaughter Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, who was interested in

classical mythology as well as astronomy, shesuggested a name. And it stuck. What did Venetianame?

Answer

• Ex-planet Pluto

13. Identify the logo

Answer

• Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)

• Mark Twain was born on 30 November 1835,

exactly two weeks after X. In his

autobiography, published in 1909, he said, “I

came in with X in 1835. ... It will be thegreatest disappointment of my life if I don't go

out with X. The Almighty has said, no doubt:

‘Now here are these two unaccountablefreaks; they came in together, they must go

out together.’” Identify.

Answer

• Hailey’s comet.

• Which is the current holder of the fastest

airspeed record for a manned aircraft?

Answer

• Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

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