April 1, 1998

Quiz - Air disaster movies

This is a quiz about various air disaster movies. Enjoy!

  1. From which movie does this quote come from: "The 747 is the best aircraft ever made! It can almost fly by itself... Dad calls it the 'big pussycat'"?


  2. Who played Ada Quonsett in the movie Airport and earned the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1970?


  3. Which made-for-TV movie stars Robert Urich and Annette O'Toole in control (no longer) of a crippled jetplane that had a mid-air collision?


  4. Which actor starred in Airport 1975, Skyjacked and Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232?


  5. Which actor stars in Passenger 57, Drop Zone and U.S. Marshals?


  6. Who played the stressed airport manager who took the wrong day to stop drinking, smoking, taking amphetamines and sniffing glue in Airplane!?


  7. True or false: The Delta Force is a dramatized reconstruction of the true events surrounding the hijack of TWA flight 847.


  8. From which movie does this quote come from: "Remind me to send a thank you note to Mr. Boeing"?


  9. A lot of made-for-TV air disaster movie titles bear a flight number. Which one of these movies is NOT based on a true story?


  10. Which movie depicts a brand-new plane experiencing fuel starvation at 33,000 feet and stars William Devane, Scott Hylands and Shelley Hack?