Bill O'Reilly: News Quiz

1. The United States sent their first man into space, Alan Shepard, in on May 5 of what year?

1959

1961

1969

1972

1980

2. How many test pilots were invited to volunteer for the new space flight program in 1959?

10

50

75

110

300

3. Shepard and six others were selected for the elite program of astronauts, which was called what?

Mercury 7

Orion 7

Venus 7

Mars 7

Apollo 13

4. When Alan Shepard went to the moon in 1971, what sport did he play there?

Golf

Tennis

Baseball

Basketball

Squash

5. What year did the Wright Brothers pilot the first airplane?

1900

1910

1903

1920

1890

6. Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean?

Amelia Earhart

Red Baron

John Glenn

Orville Wright

Charles Lindberg

7. What was the first satellite launched into space?

Khrushchev

Kennedy

Spud

Sputnik

Laika

8. The first Wright airplane made it all the way to where?

Europe

Ohio

Moon

Marianas Trench

Cuba

9. John Glenn became the first American to do what on February 20, 1962?

Spacewalk

Orbit Earth

Shower in Space

Walk on the moon

Orbit moon

10. Who was the first person to survive Mach 1?

John Glenn

Sam Shepard

Bud Anderson

Bob Hoover

Chuck Yeager

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