Airlines
STEM
Southern California
Boeing
General Knowledge
100

This airline, founded in 1971, became famous for its low-cost operating model and open seating before introducing assigned seating in 2025.

What is Southwest Airlines?

100

This subatomic particle has a negative electric charge.

What is an electron?

100

This Southern California city is home to the Rose Bowl, which has hosted the annual college football game commonly known as “The Granddaddy of Them All.”

What is Pasadena?

100

This Boeing narrow-body aircraft, introduced in 1967, was designed for short- to medium-range routes.

What is the 737?

100

This is the largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

200

This European airline was formed in 2004 through the merger of Air France and this Dutch flag carrier.

What is KLM Royal Dutch Airlines?

200

This branch of biology focuses on heredity and how traits are passed from parents to offspring.

What is genetics?

200

This Southern California fault system extends through the Coachella Valley and marks part of the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates.

What is the San Andreas Fault?

200

This Boeing military aircraft, designated the B-17, became famous as a heavily armed World War II bomber.

What is the Flying Fortress?

200

This author wrote the Harry Potter series.

Who is J. K. Rowling?

300

This airline operated the Concorde on transatlantic routes and was one of the two airlines to fly the supersonic aircraft commercially until 2003.

What is British Airways?

300

This type of chemical bond forms when atoms share electrons.

What is a covalent bond?

300

This island, located off the coast of Orange County, is the largest of California’s Channel Islands.

What is Santa Cruz Island?

300

This Boeing airliner became the company’s first commercial aircraft to use extensive carbon-fiber composite construction.

What is the 787 Dreamliner?

300

This Renaissance polymath painted The Last Supper and designed early concepts for flying machines, armored vehicles, and parachutes.

Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

400

This airline’s flight 123 suffered the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history in 1985 after a structural failure damaged the aircraft’s flight controls.

What is Japan Airlines?

400

In computer science, this data structure follows the principle “first in, first out.”

What is a queue?

400

This observatory houses the 200-inch Hale Telescope, which was the world’s largest effective telescope when it was completed in 1948.

What is the Palomar Observatory?

400

This Boeing twin-engine aircraft was developed as a successor to the 727 for medium- and long-range routes.

What is the 757?

400

This gas makes up the largest percentage of Earth’s atmosphere.

What is nitrogen?

500

This airline pioneered the “hub-and-spoke” model at its headquarters and was created in 1924 as a crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters.

What is Delta Air Lines?

500

This theorem states that no three positive integers can satisfy an + b= cn when n>2. 

What is Fermat’s Last Theorem?

500

This former Southern California ranch, once owned by newspaper magnate William Randolph H., became a vast estate featuring elaborate gardens, guest houses, and a private zoo.

What is Hearst Castle?

500

This Boeing variant is powered exclusively by the General Electric GE90-115B, the highest-thrust commercial turbofan ever placed into service, and features reinforced landing gear and raked wingtips for long-haul operations.

What is the Boeing 777-300ER?

500

This ancient Greek mathematician is traditionally associated with a theorem concerning the sides of right triangles.

Who is Pythagoras?