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Airports Named for People #2

Can you name the cities that are served by these airports named for people?
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Quiz by kalbahamut
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Last updated: October 4, 2020
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First submittedFebruary 23, 2020
Times taken12,194
Average score40.9%
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Person
City
John F. Kennedy
New York
Franz Josef Strauss
Munich
Nënë Tereza
(a.k.a. Mother Theresa)
Tirana
Pierre Trudeau
Montreal
Toussaint Louverture
Port-au-Prince
Galileo Galilei
Pisa
Bill & Hillary Clinton
Little Rock
Chinggis Khaan
Ulaanbaatar
Sukarno
Jakarta
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ajaccio
Yasser Arafat
Rafah (Gaza)
Person
City
Shaka Zulu
Durban
Amerigo Vespucci
Florence
William Hartsfield &
Maynard Jackson
Atlanta
Ibn Battuta
Tangier
Willy Brandt
Berlin
Charles Kingsford Smith
Sydney
Nikola Tesla
Belgrade
Muhammad Ali
Louisville
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Karachi
Frédéric Chopin
Warsaw
Alexander Pushkin
Moscow
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 3, 2021
I made an as-yet-unofficial part 3 to the series.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Feb 28, 2020
If you wanted to feature this you could cut out Hippocrates and Paul the Apostle, eliminating the two least-guessed answers, and then I think it would have the same number of answers as the first quiz. Or maybe that one had 21 I'm not sure. I'd prefer to keep on Ibn Battuta.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2020
Looks like you followed my suggestions and added two. Never heard of Charles Smith before but was able to get it just by guessing big cities in Anglophone countries.
JohnK
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Level 69
Oct 27, 2020
While he was christened with the surname "Smith", the aviator for whom the airport is named is always known by the surname he used as an adult, which is "Kingsford Smith" - essentially a hyphenated surname without the hyphen. If you asked a local of the city that Kingsford Smith Airport is in (it's my home town) who "Charles Smith" was, they wouldn't have a clue.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
maybe should accept "Kingsford Smith" as a type-in, then, QM?
arosa
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Level 72
Aug 13, 2020
It is interesting to do another sequel, including as example Lech Walesa and Rosalía de Castro. Congrats for this quizz
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2020
well if you want to make one you could use the Ronaldo airport mentioned below and the Hippocrates and Paul the Apostle airports mentioned above, but, I have a feeling your quiz will be extremely difficult as beyond what's mentioned on the first two it starts to get into pretty obscure cities and/or people.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2020
Though there are several other good suggestions in the comments section of quiz #1. I guess you probably could squeeze out at least one more of these.
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Oct 4, 2020
The Willy Brandt airport is supposed to open on October 31. Maybe it will actually happen this time. The original opening was scheduled for 2011. They have postponed the opening ten separate times, sometimes just weeks before it was supposed to happen. The cost of the project has ballooned to several times the original budget. It's sad that Germany is just as bad as building infrastructure as most other western countries.
nicolasquiz
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Level 68
Oct 5, 2020
Pleasant surprise for me to see the new airport here in Berlin included, this time it seems almost definitive that it's going to open at the end of October (let's see though!). I'll try to pay it a visit as soon as Covid allows traveling to be more safe again. Unfortunately they will close the Tegel airport (which is named after Otto Lilienthal btw) shortly after the Willy Brandt will open. Flown out of Berlin mostly from Tegel, will miss it a bit. At least my grandma won't have to endure the aircraft noise in her garden anymore! Nice quiz and congrats on the feature kalbahamut
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 68
Oct 12, 2020
I also like this inclusion.
camus
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Level 78
Oct 31, 2020
The mayor of the Schönefeld municipality where the airport was built once visited Namibia. The people there thanked him for making Germany more likeable. "We don't feel so bad now about ourselves since even you make mistakes". The mayor himself was largely shut out of the whole project. Political big shots of state level wanted the airport to be their baby and hired incompetent yes men to run the show. One of them led the technical service while writing his doctoral thesis. No department knew what the other one was doing. At one point someone decided that the airport needed a new floor, and built it. No one seems to have asked what that meant for security and budget, or the questions weren't heard. After the umpteeth delay, the architects were fired as scapegoats. They took all the plans with them, some of which were found afterwards in dumpsters. Just a few days ago, it was found out that there are no escalators for arriving passengers. Corona must make the opening much easier.
camus
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Level 78
Oct 31, 2020
The two politicians with top responsibility - the minister president of the state of Brandenburg and the mayor of Berlin, who also successively led the board of supervisors - suffered no consequences. They retired in 2013 and 2014, respesctively, for unrelated reasons.
JackintheBox
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Level 79
Jun 1, 2021
Funny then that most countries that rank highly in infrastructure are located in Europe
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 4, 2020
I also discovered that the Madeira Airport is now named for Cristiano Ronaldo.
MG17
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Level 43
Oct 4, 2020
Yes, in my blog of dangerous airports, the one is there.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 3, 2021
Answer #1 for ANfP #3
MG17
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Level 43
Oct 4, 2020
I don’t know, but Roma-Fiumicino Airport, is Leonardo da Vinci.
doctors
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Level 82
Oct 4, 2020
Fun fact: they changed the name of the old Chinggis Khan Airport in July to give the name to the new airport they're still building, so right now there is no Chinggis Khan Airport
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 5, 2020
didn't know that. But.. there was and soon will be an airport by that name there, so, good enough...
Algernon
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Level 72
Oct 11, 2020
That is one bloody tough quiz. A rather pathetic 7 for me. Never having heard of 6 of the people does make guessing cities quite tough. A few more I knew their nationality but not what part of the country they were from (Napoleon and Ali) .

On a side note, why is Chinggis Khaan not spelt in the usual, possibly western, manner? That threw me, although I really should have got it.

kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 11, 2020
That's the way the name of the airport is spelled. Also a common way to spell the name of the warlord.

Re: Napoleon, he was born on the island. Corsica is also an accepted type-in for that answer. And one of Muhammad Ali's nicknames was the Louisville Lip. These things aren't universally known. But... what is?

Algernon
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Level 72
Oct 16, 2020
Lol, ahhh ehhh yeah, that would explain the spelling of Chinggis. Lol

Napoleon was one of those when I saw the answer I remembered he was born there, but before it came up I was guessing french cities.

As for Ali, I knew nothing about his place of birth beyond ‘America’. I’m not a boxing fan, and not American (if that would help, I don’t know). So would have struggled on that one.

ander217
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Level 75
Oct 18, 2020
Being American would help for that one, I think. I'm not a boxing fan but I think most people here know about the life of Ali. I got that one easily, but I only scored 13 and I'm kicking myself for missing Louverture. Kal, have you been in all of these airports?
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Oct 18, 2020
Only 5 airports. I've also been to Tirana, Little Rock, Munich, and Berlin but not to the airports.
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Oct 27, 2020
Interesting. Had to really think on some of these.
WakenyaSisi
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Level 55
Oct 27, 2020
Very biased against Africa.... So many airports in Africa named after people e.g. Jomo Kenyatta, moi, wilson (Kenya), abeid amani karume (zanzibar, tanzania), kenneth kaunda (zambia), kamuzu (malawi) and so many more.

Be fair to africa!

kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
I was trying to pick out airports that would be easy to guess. The two airports from Africa I did put on here I think are all much easier to guess than those you suggested, and they still ended up being the least-guessed and fifth-least-guessed answers.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jun 3, 2021
I included 2 of your suggestions in part 3, linked above.
cdguy24
+1
Level 52
Oct 27, 2020
Interesting quiz
TNdM
+1
Level 39
Oct 27, 2020
What about adding Louis Armstrong in New Orleans?
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
that one is one the first quiz
TNdM
+1
Level 39
Oct 28, 2020
Look's like I have a quizz to do !!!! :-)
Gosamp
+1
Level 70
Oct 27, 2020
I had mentioned that Genoa's airport is named after Christopher Columbus. Did you ever include it in one of your quizzes?
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Oct 27, 2020
I don't think so.
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 3, 2021
Shoot. I think I missed this when I was looking over the comments sections for good answers to put on part 3. That would have been a good one for sure.
Orca24
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Level 76
Apr 22, 2021
Lol the only reason I knew Nikola Tesla is because I watch 90 Day Fiancée and it made an appearance this season
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Jun 1, 2021
yeah it doesn't really make much sense. The guy was born in what was then Austria-Hungary, on land that is now Croatia, then immigrated to the United States where he would go on to do most of his work and also obtain American citizenship - the only nationality left to him after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He only spent about 31 hours of his life in Belgrade, and basically had no connection to the city at all until his ashes were brought there some 15 years after he died. Still easy to guess, though, if you know anything about the silly lengths to which Serbia has gone trying to latch on to the man's legacy. Pretty much par for the course in the Balkans.
QuizApe
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Level 67
Aug 21, 2021
Suggestion: Nicolaus Copernicus Airport, Wrocław
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 22, 2021
I think that might have been on the first part.
clivey
+1
Level 68
Aug 24, 2021
Suggestion : John Lennon Airport, Liverpool - "above us, only sky".
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 24, 2021
Already on part 1
clivey
+1
Level 68
Oct 11, 2021
So it is, cheers, another quiz to take!
dirtyorange
+1
Level 77
Mar 6, 2022
Pushkin Airfield is just south of St Petersburg, not Moscow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkin_Airport

Cheers!

kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Nov 23, 2022
Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport serves Moscow.
BOJET
+1
Level 93
Nov 23, 2022
Soekarno and Hatta for Jakarta
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