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Cape Canaveral: Quiz
  
  
  

Question 1: A number of distinguished visitors including presidents Grover Cleveland and ________ were reported to have stayed here.
Chester A. ArthurBenjamin HarrisonDan QuayleCharles W. Fairbanks

Question 2: Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a headland in ________, United States, near the center of that state's Atlantic coast, 45 minutes east of Orlando by car.
Palm Beach County, FloridaBrevard County, FloridaOrlando, FloridaMiami-Dade County, Florida

Question 3: After his assassination in 1963, his widow Jacqueline Kennedy suggested to President ________ that renaming the Cape Canaveral facility would be an appropriate memorial.
John F. KennedyLyndon B. JohnsonJimmy CarterHarry S. Truman

Question 4: The linear velocity of the Earth's surface is greatest towards the ________; the relatively southerly location of the Cape allows rockets to take advantage of this by launching eastward, in the same direction as the Earth's rotation.
1st parallel southEquator5th parallel north1st parallel north

Question 5: Other features of the cape include Cape Canaveral lighthouse and ________.
Port EvergladesMiamiPort ManateePort Canaveral

Question 6: The tip of the cape is at LC-46 on ________.
Patrick Air Force BaseAir Force Space CommandVandenberg Air Force BaseCape Canaveral Air Force Station

Question 7: Although the name change was approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names of the Interior Department in 1964, it was not popular in Florida, especially in the city of ________.
Rockledge, FloridaTitusville, FloridaCape Canaveral, FloridaCocoa Beach, Florida

Question 8: spacecraft are launched from both the station and the ________ on adjacent Merritt Island, the terms "Cape Canaveral," "Canaveral" or even "The Cape" have become metonyms that refer to both as the launch site of spacecraft.
Cape Canaveral Air Force StationKennedy Space CenterVandenberg Air Force BaseKennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39

Question 9: Cape Canaveral was chosen for rocket launches to take advantage of the Earth's ________.
Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)Rotation around a fixed axisRotationRigid body

Question 10: NASA's Project Mercury and Gemini were launched from Cape Canaveral, although the ________ and Space Shuttle missions have launched from Kennedy Space Center on adjacent Merritt Island.
Space RaceConstellation programOrion (spacecraft)Apollo program
















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