90 Hot Air Balloons Trivia Questions with Answers
90 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the annual balloon event held in Canberra, Australia, each autumn?
Answer
Canberra Balloon Spectacular
What was the name of the Philadelphia site where Jean-Pierre Blanchard made America’s first balloon ascent in 1793?
Answer
Washington Prison Yard
Who became the first woman to pilot a balloon solo in 1805?
Answer
Sophie Blanchard
What French word, derived from the Montgolfier name, means a hot-air balloon?
Answer
Montgolfière
What historic balloon race began in 1906 and is associated with Gordon Bennett?
Answer
Gordon Bennett Cup
Which French balloonist made the first balloon ascent in North America in 1793?
Answer
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Where is the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta held?
Answer
Ashton Court Estate
What type of aircraft is a hot-air balloon classified as?
Answer
Aerostat
What was the name of the balloon that completed the first nonstop circumnavigation of Earth in 1999?
Answer
Breitling Orbiter 3
What is the main reason a hot-air balloon cannot normally be steered horizontally like an airplane?
Answer
It travels with the wind
What is the name of the top opening that lets a hot-air balloon pilot release heated air?
Answer
Parachute valve
What hybrid balloon type combines hot air with a gas such as helium?
Answer
Rozière balloon
Which Indian balloonist set the hot-air balloon altitude record in 2005?
Answer
Vijaypat Singhania
Who was the first woman to fly in a hot-air balloon, in France in 1784?
Answer
Élisabeth Thible
What is the world’s largest annual hot-air balloon festival?
Answer
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
What fuel do most modern hot-air balloon burners use?
Answer
Propane
What is the fabric outer bag of a hot-air balloon called?
Answer
Envelope
What force makes a hot-air balloon rise when its air is heated?
Answer
Buoyancy
On what date did the first free human flight in a hot-air balloon occur?
Answer
21 November 1783
Who invented the first practical hot-air balloon in 1783?
Answer
The Montgolfier brothers