The answers to Last Months quiz , without GOOGLE how many did you get right ?.
1. John F Kennedy International Airport is situated in New York City. What was it called
prior to being named after the former US president?
The correct answer was Idlewild
The airport was renamed in 1963 in honour of the recently assassinated president. The
airport is situated in Jamaica in the Queens area of the city. Newark and LaGuardia are two
other airports that serve New York City. LaGuardia is named after Fiorello LaGuardia, a
former mayor of the city. Prior to taking this name it was named after Glenn Curtiss, a
pioneer in the field of aviation
2. After which former member of The Beatles is Liverpool's international airport named?
The correct answer was John Lennon
I'm not trying to suggest to you that you need to be assassinated to get your name up in
airport lights but unfortunately our second airport was also named after such a victim.
Formerly known as Speke Airport, it was renamed in 2002 after Lennon, who was born in
Liverpool in 1940. Further connections to Lennon and The Beatles can be found in and
around the airport in the shape of a "Yellow Submarine" artwork on a traffic island outside
the airport and a statue of Lennon himself, in the check-in hall.
3. Though it has now been renamed, which city formerly had an airport named after
Rastafarian spiritual icon, Haile Selassie?
The correct answer was Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The airport is now called Bole International Airport, after the local neighbourhood in which
the airport is situated.
Rastafarianism takes its name from Selassie's birth name (Tafari Makonnen) and the
Ethiopian title of "Ras" which means "head". Rastafarians consider Selassie to be the
Messiah and God incarnate, as predicted in the "Book of Revelations", who will lead the
African people to emancipation and divine justice.
Pilots Corner
June 2017
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