This week, we take to the skies, with six questions all about flight, jets, and air travel. We also fly into discussions of hockey, aviation history, and a legendary comedic actor!
1:57: Q1 (Sports & Games): In 1996, the originalWinnipeg Jets moved to the American Southwest, becoming what current NHL team?
11:12: Q2 (Times & Places): What legendary aviator and ace fighter pilot became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound in
1947, when he piloted an experimental rocket-powered plane called the Bell X-1?
20:33: Q3 (Music): What American psychedelic rock band, with a name that is rather appropriate for today’s game, really took off with the release of their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow, and later evolved into the band Starship?
32:00: Q4 (Arts & Literature): “Flight” is a 1938 short story by what American writer and eventual Nobel laureate, primarily known as a chronicler of downtrodden people, especially in central California?
40:11: Q5 (Everything Else): From the French for “little wing”, what is the term for the flaps on the trailing edge of an airplane’s wing that can be angled upward or downward to control the aircraft’s roll?
47:41: Q6 (Movies & TV): Though he portrayed over 200 characters across seven different decades, what actor only really made it big when he played Dr. Rumack in Airplane!?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0
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