This was fun. Thank for accepting 'plane' as recommended above, as that was my first answer, and it avoided me having to trial and error guess synonyms.
Great quiz! The last clue is an interesting one. Google Translate does list Proust's title (A la recherche du temps perdu) as "In Search of Lost Time." I have also seen it rendered as "A Remembrance of Things Past." Since this is the least correctly answered question at this point (only 20%), do you think more of us would get it right with the latter English title?
And considering that Proust based his French title on a translation of Shakespeare's phrase "Remembrance of Things Past," from Sonnet No. 30, calling it "In Search of Lost Time" is not only awkward but wrong. It's as if we let the Pentagon come up with appropriate titles for works written in other languages: "A State of Active Combat and the Cessation of Same" or "A Century of Isolated Existence." Bah!
Indeed, the work(s) that Marcel Proust wrote was called "A la recherche du temps perdu". No-one wrote 'In Search of Lost Time'; this is just one of the translations of the original.
According to the National Park Service, at the time of the first flight the Kill Devil Hills were a group of sand dunes near Kitty Hawk where the Wrights conducted their flight experiments. Kitty Hawk was the name of the nearest town. The town of Kill Devil Hills did not exist until 1953, but it now includes the area of the first flight. The clue is not incorrect as written, but seems a bit tricksy to me.
I also like to state that while NC thinks they were 1st in flight, the first airplane testing was in CT a few years prior to the Wright brothers. Just Saying
Gustav Whitehead's aircraft designs were nowhere near as sophisticated as the Wright Flyer. Modern researchers were unable to achieve flight with his designs. Also, most importantly, there is no indisputable proof that he ever achieved the results he claimed. He's just another footnote from the race for heavier than air flight of that era. He made little or no contribution to the long term advancement of aviation.
It's still there. I visited it a couple years ago. But it's part of the metro area of Naples, now, and it was most famously destroyed, as you said, long before the 1900s. I couldn't find information in my cursory search as to whether or not Pompeii was again devastated by the 1906 eruption; all I found was an article that stated Torre del Greco was threatened which would suggest that the path of destruction was further north than Pompeii.
The modern Pompei was founded in 1891. The modern Pompei and ancient Pompeii are spelt differently, because they are not a continuation of the same thing.
^... but they're in the same place. I visited the ruins of the ancient city. Had to drive through the modern one to get there. Of course the city had to be repopulated since it was completely destroyed by Vesuvius before. That's kind of a given isn't it?
Actually in that decade (from its introduction in 1908) the Model T was available in more than one colour. The limit to black applied from 1914 to 1925, and was then lifted again.
To Mr Quizmaster: I think your general policy is to make jetpunk quizzes appealing to all newcomers, and still challenging for long-time users. If that is correct, I think the question on NAACP is tough for anyone outside the USA.
And Premier Leauge quizzes are challenging for US users. Classic movie questions are tough for those who only watch modern movies. A South Korea country quiz will be easier for East Asian than for pepole from other regions of the world. So what.
That's because Premier League quizzes are about the Premier League. A quiz about a decade is not about the U.S. I suspect that was Ecce's point. I don't join in the complaints about U.S. centrism on Jetpunk, it is what it is, but sometimes the reaction to it is worse.
http://www.autonews.com/article/20030616/SUB/306160713/model-t-had-many-shades%3B-black-dried-fastest