19 trivia questions only geniuses will get right

A. Charles Lindbergh
B. William T. Colbert
C. Amelia Earhart
D. Charlie J. Wright

Charles Lindbergh made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. Amelia Earhart was the first female to make that solo trip, which she did in 1932. Check out these 34 things your pilot won’t tell you.

A. Bessie Coleman
B. Harriet Quimby
B. Raymonde de Laroche
D. Sophie Blanchard

Sophie Blanchard was also the first woman to pilot a hot-air balloon. She learned how from her husband, who died of a heart attack beside Sophie while she was piloting a balloon. Blanchard herself died in a ballooning accident in 1819, after her balloon caught fire and crashed to the ground. Raymonde de Laroche, the first woman to earn her airplane pilot license, died 100 years later to the month when the plane she was piloting crash-landed at La Crotoy Airfield in France.

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B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

On January 23, 1959, nine college kids and their 30-something tour-guide set out for a 21-day hiking excursion that would culminate in the thrill of skiing down Mount Otorten in the Ural Mountains of what was then the USSR. Only one of the ten returned, 21-year old Yuri Yudin, who’d left the group on January 28 due to stomach flu. What happened on that mountain is up there with history’s most bizarre unsolved mysteries.

A. White Christmas
B. The Shop Around The Corner
C. Holiday Inn
D. Christmas in Connecticut

Holiday Inn was released in 1942 and featured this famous Irving Berlin song. It wasn’t until 1954 that the film White Christmas came out, piggybacking on the success of the song by the same name that had spent 11 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts in 1942; it’s sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. Now test your musical knowledge further with this Classic Hits Super Quiz.

Source: RD.com