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Challenge 12, February 2003

Black Aviators

1. Of the 996 original Tuskegee Airmen, 450 served in combat overseas during WWII. How many died in combat?

a. 0

b. 150

c. 33

d. 66

2. In order to show her support for the training of black military pilots, Eleanor Roosevelt flew with this black pilot despite the protests of the secret service.

a. Satchel Page

b. C. Alfred “Chief” Anderson

c. Neal V. Loving

d. Chauncey Spencer

3. In 1932, James Herman Banning and Thomas C. Allen achieved which black aviation first?

a. Transcontinental flight

b. Trans-Atlantic flight

c. Roundtrip flight

d. Breaking the sound barrier

4. Which organization of black aviators was the first to see overseas combat?

a. 332d

b. 99th Fighter Squadron

c. 477th Bombardment Group

d. 619th Bombardment Squadron

5. Who was the first black woman to receive a commission as lieutenant in the U.S. Civil Air Patrol? 

a. Willa Brown

b. Bessie Coleman

c. Mae Jemison

d. Joni Mitchell

 

6. The National Airmen’s Association of America helped organize this flight school, whose instructors produced pilots noted by U.S. and enemy forces as some of the finest bombardiers and escorts in the military.

a. Coffey School of Aeronautics

b. Coleman Institute

c. Black Wings

d. Tuskegee Institute

 

7. Neal V. Loving was the first African American to be qualified as a racing pilot by the National Aeronautic Association and the Professional Racing Pilots Association. He was also the first ___________ to do so.

a. Senior citizen

b. Double amputee

c. High School drop-out

d. Hearing-impaired

 

8. Dr. Mae Jemison was the first African American female astronaut and the first black woman in space. How many African American men completed their NASA training before Jemison?

a. 15

b. 1

c. 8

d. 4

 

 

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