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Transport 116582 is a selection of 10 questions. Transport 116582 is the filename to differentiate it from other Transport quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 In which year did Chuck Yeager first break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane?
A 1947 (on October 14, 1947, in the Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis)
2 Which metal, atomic number 22, is used in the construction of parts for high-speed planes, spacecraft and missiles?
A Titanium (Titanium is the 9th most abundant element on Earth)
3 Which Liverpool railway was closed to the public in 1956?
A Overhead railway
4 In which year was Concorde retired from service?
A 2003 (27 years after commercial operations )
5 Who designed and built the wooden seaplane, the ‘Spruce Goose’?
A Howard Hughes (it flew just once on November 2, 1947)
6 If your plane landed at McCarran Airport, which US city would you be in?
A Las Vegas (the airport is 5 miles south of the centre of Las Vegas)
7 In which unusual place did German aviator Mathias Rust land his small plane on 28th May 1987?
A Moscow’s Red Square
8 The first of the Great Western Railway’s lines was completed in 1841 and ran between which two cities?
A London & Bristol
9 Which waterway links Loch Ness and Loch Lochy?
A The Caledonian Canal (bisecting the Scottish Highlands from Fort William in the south west to Inverness in the north east)
10 The RAF’s Nimrod reconnaissance plane was derived from which civil airliner?
A Comet (4) (development began in 1964 as a project to replace the Avro Shackleton – it continued in service until 2010)