Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars

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Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars
Welcome to Who Wants to Win a Million
Dollars! Test your knowledge of the Wright
Brothers and the History of Flight, as you work
your way to the million dollar level! Although
the questions you will answer are real, the
money, is not. You aren't playing for real
money! Sorry!
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Question Value 100

• Wilbur and Orville Wright first became
  interested in flight when their father brought
  home what toy?

• Helicopter
• Truck
• Car

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Question Value 200

• On what date did Wilbur and Orville Wright
  perform the first flight?

• November 3, 1920
• December 17, 2003
• December 17, 1903

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Question Value 300

• Where did Wilbur and Orville Wright perform the
  first powered flight?

• Raleigh, North Carolina
• Dayton, Ohio
• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

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Kitty Hawk
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Question Value 500

• How long did the first flight last?

• 20 seconds
• 12 seconds
• 15 seconds

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Question Value 1000
Get this question correct and you are safe at
1,000

• Who was the oldest Wilbur or Orville Wright?

• Wilbur Wright
• Orville Wright
• Milford Wright

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Question Value 2000

• Who was the first female air passenger in the
  U.S., she flew with Wilbur Wright for 4 minutes
  at College Park, MD?

• Mrs. Ralph H. VanDeman
• Orville Wright
• Mrs. Orville Wright

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Question Value 4,000

• Orville Wright was named after

• Orville Wright
• Orville Fiske
• Orville Smith

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Congratulations! You are halfway to the end, only
eight more questions after this one!
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Question Value 8,000

• Orville and Wilbur Wrights plane was named the
  

• 1903 Flyer
• 1902 Flyer
• Wright Brothers Plane

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Question Value 16,000

• Orville and Wilbur Wright had 1 sister named

• Katharine
• Susan
• Elizabeth

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Question Value 32,000

• Answer this question correctly and you will be
  safe at 32,000.

The gasoline engine on the 1903 Flyer weighed
179 pounds, and delivered

• 12 horsepower
• 15 horsepower
• 11 horsepower

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Question Value 64,000

• At just about noon on December 03, 1903 Wilbur
  made the fourth, and final, flight of that day.

• The distance was 852 feet the time of the flight
  59 seconds
• The distance 752 feet the time of the flight 69
  seconds
• The distance was 859 feet the time of the
  flight 49 seconds

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Question Value 125,000

• Orville and Wilbur Wright received the Cross of
  the Legion of Honour from the French Consul.

• November 14, 1903
• November 17, 1903
• November 06, 1906

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Question Value 250,000

• When Wilbur was 22 years old, he and Orville
  (who was 18) opened

• their own music store
• their own flight school
• their own printing office

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Question Value 500,000

• In the Fall of 1901, the Wright Brothers
  decided to begin a "series of experiments to
  accurately determine the amount and direction of
  the pressure produced on curved surfaces when
  acted upon by winds at the various angles from
  zero to ninety degrees."

• To do this they built a car
• To do this they built a wind tunnel
• To do this they built a printing press

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One question away from 1,000,000.00
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Question Value 1,000,000

• In 1914, what institute became the first major
  scientific institution to recognize the Wright
  Brothers' achievement.

• Smithsonian Institute
• The Franklin Institute
• National Airplane Museum

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