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Aviation Trivia Quiz
Wheels Up Planes, airports, pilot talk and the wildest stories from 35,000 feet. Seatbelts on.
171 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This Aviation Trivia Quiz has 171 questions: 60 easy, 69 medium and 42 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 171 Aviation questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Madeira renamed its cliffside airport in 2017 after which footballer, unveiling a bust of him that the internet mocked?
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Cristiano Ronaldo
The bust became a meme so fast that the sculptor made a second, better-liked version a year later.
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Which hot drink was invented in the 1940s for chilly flying-boat passengers at Foynes, near Shannon?
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Irish coffee
Chef Joe Sheridan added whiskey to coffee for cold travellers; a passenger asked if it was Brazilian coffee.
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Only a few dozen pilots are certified to land at Paro, squeezed between Himalayan peaks. Which country's only international airport is it?
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Bhutan
Landings are by sight only and in daylight, weaving through valleys past houses on the hillsides.
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In March 2025, a fire at a nearby electricity substation shut which airport for a whole day, hitting over 1,300 flights?
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Heathrow
Europe's busiest airport lost power after the North Hyde substation fire; flights in the air were diverted.
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Osaka's Kansai airport sits on a man-made island in the sea. What has that island been slowly doing since it was built?
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Sinking
It has sunk over 11 metres since construction, far more than planned, and engineers keep jacking up the terminal.
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Which airport handled the most international passengers in the world in 2025, about 95 million?
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Dubai
Every one of its passengers is international, since the UAE has no domestic flights to speak of.
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Nepal's Lukla airport has a short, sloping runway that ends at a mountain wall. Trekkers fly in to start walking toward which peak?
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Everest
The airport is named after Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers confirmed to reach the top.
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At Maho Beach, tourists stand right under jets coming in to land just above their heads. On which Caribbean island?
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Sint Maarten
The island is split between France and the Netherlands; the airport is on the Dutch side.
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Which European capital's new airport finally opened in 2020, about nine years late and billions over budget, after years as a national joke?
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Berlin
Fire-safety flaws delayed it; for years the empty airport still ran trains to keep its tunnels aired.
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At which airport can you watch the world's tallest indoor waterfall, the 'Rain Vortex', pour down through a glass dome?
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Changi
The 40-metre Rain Vortex in Jewel, opened in 2019, is lit up with a light-and-sound show every night.
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Which Indian state got its first airport in 2018 at Pakyong, built on a hilltop about 4,500 ft up?
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Sikkim
Pakyong is one of India's highest airports; before it, visitors reached the state by road from Bagdogra.
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In 2024, Abu Dhabi's airport was renamed after the UAE's founding father. What is it called now?
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Zayed International
Its huge new Terminal A opened in November 2023; the old name was simply Abu Dhabi International.
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In January 2025, 'Baby Boom', a small jet built by a private startup, broke which barrier over the Mojave Desert?
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Sound barrier
It was the first civil supersonic jet made in America, flying in the same skies where Chuck Yeager did it in 1947.
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Which US airport was the world's busiest in 2025, with about 106 million passengers, as it has been most years since 1998?
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Atlanta
Atlanta is Delta's giant hub; Dubai was second overall in 2025, and Tokyo Haneda third.
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Pilots landing at which city's old Kai Tak airport made a sharp low turn over apartment blocks, aiming at a red-and-white checkerboard on a hill?
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Hong Kong
Kai Tak closed in 1998, but videos of its hair-raising 'checkerboard' landings still go viral.
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In January 2024 a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines jet at 16,000 ft and everyone on board survived. Which Boeing model was it?
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737 MAX 9
Bolts meant to hold the plug had been left out at the factory; the US grounded MAX 9s for weeks.
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Goa's second airport, opened in 2022 with the code GOX, is named after which former chief minister who was also India's defence minister?
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Manohar Parrikar
Mopa's Manohar International Airport opened in December 2022, ending Goa's dependence on the navy-shared Dabolim.
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Beijing's huge Daxing airport, opened in 2019 and designed by Zaha Hadid's firm, is often said to look like which sea creature from above?
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Starfish
Its five arms keep walks short: the farthest gate is said to be under 600 m from the centre.
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The world's longest scheduled nonstop flight, about 19 hours from New York's JFK, lands in which city?
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Singapore
It flies over 15,300 km on an A350 with no economy seats, only business and premium economy.
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That tiny hole in the middle pane of a plane window helps balance what?
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Air pressure
The 'breather hole' makes the outer pane carry the load and stops the middle one fogging up.
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