Hi Jay!
Instead of having "generic" aviation questions, why not have questions
that lead the listener to your website to look for the answer. They
should probably be easy enough that some of the people driving home
should be able to get them if they are indeed aviation buffs, but that
for most people, if they want to win they will hit your site. This way,
even if you're giving away a room in the suite, the people who all called
in waiting probably hit your site and may come anyway...

I'm also not sure of how many listeners there are on the station, but you
probably want to leave enough room so that a listener believes he has
time to hop on the web and look up the answer before the game is over. So
the tenth caller may not work. I don't know if the 100th caller is too
much (here in NY, the radio stations in the 90's (92, 95, etc.) all use
the station count - eg: 92 uses the 92nd caller, 95 uses the 95th caller,
etc.)

I'm not sure if it's a 30 second spot or what, but perhaps somthing
like...

"The Wright Brothers Suite at the Alexis Park Inn is named after the
founders of modern aviation, George and Wilbur Wright. Today's 100th
Anniversary of Flight Trivia Question is... 'How long did that fateful
flight that took our country into the world of Powered Aviation last?'
Not sure of the answer? Just visit the Wright Brothers Suite at
www.AlexisParkInn.com, and you can find the answer there! That site again
is www.AlexisParkInn.com. The 100th caller gets a free one-night stay in
the Wright Brothers Suite or any suite of your choice, with Jacuzzi,
Breakfast Basket, yada, yada, yada."

Of course, a flair for the dramatic works well in NY... Not sure how it
takes in your neck of the woods. Oh, and you'd have to make sure to
embed the answer to the question somewhere on the page...

Second question might be something based on the Charles Lindburgh section
- "The Charles Lindburgh Suite at the Alexis Park Inn honors one of
America's most famous Aviators, Charles Lindburgh - the first man to fly
across the Atlantic in a single trip! Todays' 100th Anniversary of Flight
Trivia Question is... 'At what city did Lindburgh land after his fateful
and treacherous 33.5 hour trip?' Not sure of the answer? Just visit the
Charles Lindburgh Suite at www.AlexisParkInn.com, and you can find the
answer there!


One of the other posters made the comment that people can look up even
the toughest trivia questions in Google relatively quickly. So the best
bang for your buck would not necessarily be to get someone who knows a
lot about aviation. It would be to steer listeners to your website to get
them to rent rooms, even if their appreciation for aviation is only a
small piece of their significance... Of course, generating interest in
aviation might be a valuable side-effect.

Good luck!


I need some suggestions for aviation trivia questions, pronto! Who
better but you guys and gals to ask, no? :-)

Why? We've decided to do a month-long radio contest in January, on our
most popular local radio station, promoting our aviation theme inn.
It's going to be called "the '100th Anniversary of Flight Trivia
Contest', sponsored by the Alexis Park Inn & Suites", and will run
every day at prime "drive time". Daily winners will each receive a FREE
night in one of our aviation theme suites. (It'll be something along
the lines of "the tenth correct caller wins...)

Thus, every day, for 25 days, the announcer will ask a different
aviation trivia question that must be (a) interesting to the non-flying
public, (b) hard enough to weed out the riff-raff, and (c) easy enough
so that someone can actually win! Ideally, the questions should
relate to the theme of our suites in some way...

So, have at it! No one knows aviation trivia like you guys, so fling
some questions at me! (And answers would be good, too? :-)

Thanks!