The Wright Brothers Quiz

Wilbur Wright arrived in Kitty Hawk on September 12, 1900. Orville followed a few weeks later. Wilbur\u2019s trip in Israel Perry\u2019s fishing schooner was miserable and dangerous. \u201cThe sails were rotten, the ropes badly worn and the rudderpost half rotted off, and the cabin so dirty and vermin-infested that I kept out of it from first to last.,\u201d was his description of the boat. They hit heavy weather crossing the Albemarle Sound, and as rain and waves washed over the boat, the schooner\u2019s owner seems particularly upset. \u201cIsrael had been so long a stranger to the touch of water upon his skin that it affected him very much.\”\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who was Bill Tate?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Assistant Postmaster of the Kitty Hawk Post Office.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Wrote a letter to the Wright Brothers inviting them to the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”First place Wright Brothers stayed when they arrived on the Outer Banks.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”All of the above.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Bill Tate\u2019s wife Addie was the town\u2019s Postmistress. Since Bill was also a county commissioner and notary, he may have felt it was piling on to also be the Postmaster. The letter from Wilbur asking about conditions went first to Joseph Dosher, the chief of the Kitty Hawk weather station who assured him that the winds were constant. Dosher passed the letter along to Tate who told the Wright Bothers that, \u201cAt Kitty Hawk there is a strip of bald sand beach, free from trees, with practically nothing growing on it except an occasional bunch of buffalo grass.\u201d\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who took the iconic photograph of the first flight?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”John Daniels”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Wilbur Wright”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Orville Wright”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Tom Tate”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Surfman John Daniels of the Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station snapped the iconic image of the Wright Flyer as it leaves the ground. What may be most remarkable is, according to multiple sources, Daniels had never even seen a camera before December 17, 1903 in his entire life.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”How far did the first flight travel, and how long did it last?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”200\u2019 in 15 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”852\u2019 in 59 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”120\u2019 in 12 seconds”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”361\u2019 in 28 seconds”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

It doesn\u2019t seem very long, but what was important was the engine was powerful enough, the propeller design worked and the aircraft lifted off the ground and flew under control and landed.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who flew the Wright Flyer in that first flight?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Orville Wright”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Bill Tate”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Wilbur Wright”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Katherine Wright”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Evidently Orville had one the coin toss three days earlier on 12\/14.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”When not on the Outer Banks, where did the Wright Brothers live?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Elizabeth City, NC”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Columbus, OH”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Dayton, OH”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Norfolk, VA”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

At the turn of the 20th Century, Dayton was a thriving transportation and industrial city with a population approaching 100,000.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”Who was Samuel Langley?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”First flight fatality.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Secretary of the Smithsonian whose attempt at controlled flight was unsuccessful.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”First person to make repeated successful glider flights. Died in an unsuccessful one in 1896.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Retired engineer and friend of the Wright Brothers who visited the camp in 1902.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

Langley was an internationally noted scientist who was convinced that powered flight was possible. He made two attempts at flight in 1903, on October 7 and December 8. Both were spectacular failures with the press in full attendance.Although very well-funded, Langley\u2019s designs did not offer nearly the control of the Wright Flyer. Nor did he understand the stresses involved in a full-sized air craft. In 1914, Glenn Curtiss, an early aircraft pioneer, made changes in Langley\u2019s design that enabled it to fly. The Smithsonian cited the Curtiss redesigned airplane as proof that Langley flew before the Wright Brothers.The Wright Brothers were understandably bitter and gave the Wright Flyer to the British government to display. It was not until the 1940s that the Smithsonian acknowledged the Wrights were the first to fly. The Wright Flyer did not return to the US until 1948.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”What did the Wright Brothers do for a living?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Newspaper publishers.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Owner of bike shop and bicycle mechanics.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Bankers.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”Professional musicians. Wilbur played trumpet; Orville piano.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

The Wright Brothers were always very mechanically minded and their bikes were proof of that. They produced two models, the Van Cleve and St. Clair. They would have been considered cutting edge for their time with coaster brakes and sealed bearings.\n”},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_questions”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_content”:”In what year did Orville Wright\u2019s record setting glider flight occur and how long did it last?”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers”:[{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1911; 16 minutes, 18 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1909; 9 minutes 45 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1911; 9 minutes, 45 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:true},{“_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_answers”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_picture”:””,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_answer”:”1912; 11 minutes 13 seconds.”,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_answers_right”:false}],”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_addpage”:false,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation_status”:true,”wpvqgr_quiz_questions_explanation”:”

The Wright Brothers continued to experiment with glider design even after their success with powered flight. On October 24, 1911, Orville flew a glider from a Kitty Hawk sand dune for an astonishing 9 minutes and 45 seconds. It took almost 10 years to beat the record.\n”}],”appreciations”:[{“content”:”You may wish to study\u2026a lot. Even randomly guessing you should have gotten at least two right.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”1″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Keep working at it. You probably have retained some knowledge of history and the Wright Brothers\u2026but not very much.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”3″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”You’re making progress. Probably have a good working knowledge of history and what you were taught in school.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”5″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Were you an honor student in High School? You must have visited the Wright Brothers Monument in Kill Devil Hills multiple times.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”7″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Wow! Impressive. You were probably a history major in college or binge watch the History Channel.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”8″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”},{“content”:”Admit it\u2014you wrote a book about the Wright Brothers.”,”redirect”:””,”picture”:””,”score”:”9″,”_type”:”wpvqgr_quiz_appreciation”}]},”nounce”:”bc4e5c310c”,”page”:1,”quiz_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/the-wright-brothers-quiz\/”,”next_page_url”:”\/quizes\/the-wright-brothers-quiz\/?page=2″,”fbshare_page_url”:”https:\/\/blog.carolinadesigns.com\/quizes\/the-wright-brothers-quiz\/?wpvqgrogtags=1″,”results_only”:”false”,”results_url”:””}};