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Aerospace Science Jeopardy Rules• Consecutively each element member will choose a

question category and number• Element members may work together to answer

question• Element leader must provide answer within 35

seconds• If answer is not provided in 35 seconds, previous

element may attempt to steal away• Other elements being loud and disruptive will be

penalized 5 points per event• Final score is number of test bonus points for each

element

WHO AM I ONE

WHO AM ITWO

WHO AM I THREE

WHO AM I FIVE

WHO AM I FOUR

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Category 1 of 1

Question:

first to fly from Albany, N.Y., to New York City

won a $10,000 prize offered by the New York World.

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Category 1 of 1

Answer:

Glenn Curtiss“Fastest Man on Earth”(p. 45)

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Category 2 of 1

Question:formed Aerial Experiment Association

made some important aviation design breakthroughs

built the first American plane equipped with ailerons

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Category 2 of 1

Answer:Alexander Graham Bell(p. 46)

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Category 3 of 1

Question:first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft

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Category 3 of 1

Answer:Louis Blériot(p. 47)

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Category 4 of 1

Question:Inventors of the Rotary Engine

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Category 4 of 1

Answer:Laurent and Gustav Seguin (p. 49)

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Category 5 of 1

Question:first to make a transcontinental flight.

Trying to win William Randolph Hearst $50,000 prize

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Category 5 of 1

Answer:Calbraith Perry Rodgers(p. 51)

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Category 1 of 2

Question:

1912 first enlisted pilot

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Category 1 of 2

Answer:PFC Vernon Burge(p. 52)

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Category 2 of 2

Question:first American woman aviator to solo in a fixed-wing airplane  

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Category 2 of 2

Answer:Blanche Stuart Scott(p. 55)

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Category 3 of 2

Question:first African American (male or female) to become an airplane pilot

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Category 3 of 2

Answer:Bessie Coleman(p. 54)

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Category 4 of 2

Question:first female to gain a pilot license in the United States.

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Category 4 of 2

Answer:Harriet Quimby(p. 56)

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Category 5 of 2

Question:•the second licensed woman pilot in the United States.•

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Category 5 of 2

Answer:Matilde Moisant(p. 58)

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Category 1 of 3

Question:•third woman to receive a pilot's license (on May 19, 1912) from the Aero Club of America•

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Category 1 of 3

Answer:Julia Clark(p. 59)

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Category 2 of 3

Question:fourth woman in the U S to earn a pilot's license

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Category 2 of 3

Answer:Katherine Stinson(p. 59-60)

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Category 3 of 3

Question:first to fully enclose the fuselage and use ailerons

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Category 3 of 3

Answer:Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie

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Category 4 of 3

Question:built the Triple Twin, a two-engine, three-propeller aircraft, in 1911

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Category 4 of 3

Answer:Eustace, Howard, and Oswald Short

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Category 5 of 3

Question:designed a four-engine aircraft called Le GrandHe flew it on 13 May 1913

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Category 5 of 3

Answer:Russian pilot Igor Sikorsky

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Category 1 of 4

Question:Some aviation historians think this pilot was really the first woman to go solo

She made that flight on 13 October 1910

She and her husband, François, formed a lightweight airplane company called the French-American Aeroplane Company

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Category 1 of 4

Answer:Bessica Medlar Raiche

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Category 2 of 4

Question:in 1909 he established the first flying school in the U.S.

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Category 2 of 4

Answer:Glenn Curtiss(p. 45)

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Category 3 of 4

Question:

built and flew the first powered monoplane

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Category 3 of 4

Answer:Louis Blériot(p. 47)

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Category 4 of 4

Question:•first civilian to purchase a Wright Flyer•

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Category 4 of 4

Answer:Calbraith Perry Rodgers(p. 51)

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Category 5 of 4

Question:first American of any race or gender to hold an international pilot license.

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Category 5 of 4

Answer:

Bessie Coleman(p. 54)

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Category 1 of 5

Question:

•first woman to fly across the English Channel

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Category 1 of 5

Answer:Harriet Quimby(p. 56)

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Category 2 of 5

Question:first woman pilot to die in an air crash

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Category 2 of 5

Answer:

Julia Clark(p. 59)

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Category 3 of 5

Question:•Glenn Curtiss’s only female student in 1910

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Category 3 of 5

Answer:Blanche Stuart Scott

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Category 4 of 5

Question:•She was also the first woman to fly at night (1911)

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Category 4 of 5

Answer:Harriet Quimby

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Category 5 of 5

Question:She won the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for flying at an attitude of 2,500 feet

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Category 5 of 5

Answer:Matilde Moisant

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