The New York Times: So, you think you’re a jet setter? Test your airport I.Q.

The Transportation Security Administration predicted it would scan up to 18 million passengers and crew members over the long Memorial Day weekend, beginning last Thursday and ending Wednesday. That is 6.4 per cent more than last year. If you’re still travelling and need respite, why not step off that moving walkway, snag a comfy seat and take this quiz about airports?

1. What is the busiest airport in the world by passenger volume?

— Dubai International Airport

— Singapore Changi Airport

— Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

— Chicago O’Hare International Airport

2. For what famous resident is New Orleans’ international airport named?

— Tennessee Williams

— Fats Domino

— Paul Prudhomme

— Louis Armstrong

3. Chicago O’Hare International Airport’s three-letter airport code is ORD. What does that stand for?

— Orchard

— Outer Road

— Ordinary

— Ordway

4. In a film set in what city does the leading actor tell the leading actress that they’ll “always have Paris” as a plane waits on the runway?

— Lisbon

— Casablanca, Morocco

— Paris

— Berlin

5. Where is the world’s largest airport by land area?

— Saudi Arabia

— Kazakhstan

— Texas

— Colorado

6. What was John F. Kennedy International Airport officially called when it first opened in 1948?

— Floyd Bennett Field

— New York International Airport

— Long Island Airport

— Idlewild International Airport

7. The world’s longest nonstop flight as of May 2024 goes between Kennedy International Airport in New York and what destination?

— Sydney, Australia

— Cape Town

— New Delhi

— Singapore

8. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office at what airport in 1963?

— La Guardia Airport

— Los Angeles International Airport

— Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

— Dallas Love Field

9. What is the name of the Paris airport, still operational, where Charles Lindbergh landed on May 21, 1927, after completing the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight?

— Charles de Gaulle

— Orly

— Le Bourget

— Versailles

10. The first scheduled passenger service aboard supersonic Concorde jets began on Jan. 21, 1976, with one plane leaving Paris for Rio de Janeiro and another bound for Bahrain. From what city did that flight depart?

— New York

— Rome

— Tel Aviv

— London

11. What famous architect designed the swooping main terminal at Dulles International Airport, just outside Washington?

— Eero Saarinen

— Frank Lloyd Wright

— I.M. Pei

— Frank Gehry

12. US Airways Flight 1549, which made an emergency water landing with no fatalities Jan. 15, 2009, an event known as the Miracle on the Hudson, took off from La Guardia Airport bound for what Southern city?

— Houston

— Atlanta

— Charlotte, N.C.

— Little Rock, Ark.

Answers

1. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

2. Louis Armstrong

3. Orchard

4. Casablanca

5. Saudi Arabia

6. New York International Airport

7. Singapore

8. Dallas Love Field

9. Le Bourget

10. London

11. Eero Saarinen

12. Charlotte, N.C.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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