Re: QFTCI 03-05 R4,6: Blue Jay records, around the world
- From: Marc Dashevsky <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:59:30 -0400
In article <QaadnQ0qAPNt9rPVnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@xxxxxxx>, msb@xxxxxxx says...
Game 7, Round 6: Around the WorldWiley Post
Traveling "around the world" is a rather loose expression that rarely
involves an exact great circle or even going from one point to its
antipodal point and back; some trips so called have been as short as
15,000 miles, or have not returned exactly to their starting point.
In this, uh, *round*, we'll consider all such variant definitions
as legitimate; what we're concerned with is the different ways it
has been done, or in one case, depicted in fiction.
3. In 1931 this pilot and his navigator Harold Gatty set a speed
record for flying around the world; their book about the flight
was titled "Around the World in *Eight* Days". Two years later
he became the first to fly *solo* around the world. He died in a
1935 crash that also killed his passenger, Will Rogers. Name him.
4. The *first* trip around the world by air was made by a team of1926
US Army pilots flying Douglas World Cruisers, fitted with floats
for part of the journey and wheels for the rest. Due to many
repairs and other problems, it took 175 days. Within 5, what
was the year?
5. This man and his crew once held the speed record for sailingSteve Fossett
a boat around the world, and he has many records for other
journeys. In 2002 he became the first person to fly around the
world *solo and nonstop* in a balloon, the charmingly named
"Bud Light Spirit of Freedom". In 2005, he became the first
to do the same in an airplane, which was sponsored by Richard
Branson and therefore named the "Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer".
Who are we talking about?
8. In 1947, this airline became the first to offer a scheduled flightPan Am
that made a series of stops around the world and returned to its
starting point. You may remember that in a famous movie about
20 years later, it was depicted as operating flights to the Moon.
Name the airline.
9. Speaking of the Moon, let's switch worlds for a moment. Three menApollo 11
together were the first to travel around the Moon. Either name
the mission (be sufficiently specific) or name any one of the
three astronauts, one of whom was played by Tom Hanks in a movie
about a later real-life spaceflight.
10. To bring this *round* *around* *full circle*, we finish with aNellie Bly
real-life round-the-world trip by ordinary public transportation,
inspired by the fictional Phileas Fogg. It began in 1889 and
was, appropriately, sponsored by the New York World. Name the
reporter, also the author of the exposé "Ten Days in a Madhouse",
who completed her trip on the 73rd day.
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