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Trivia Questions

No spy should be without one of these aptly named outer garments first designed for British soldiers in WWI

This French designer's "New Look" for 1947 included a narrow waist & padded hips

In 1939 she closed her Paris shop & spent the rest of World War II in the Ritz Hotel with her German boyfriend

Although this company's name was trademarked in 1871, its logo didn't appear on men's underwear until 1938

This word for a woman's shirt may be from Old High German for "naked"

In 1943 Clarence Johnson founded this "stinky" research arm of Lockheed that produced the F-117A Nighthawk

In the 1890s Germany's Otto Lilienthal piloted several successful flights in these engineless planes

In 1919 Alcock & Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight: St. John's in this province to Ireland

In 1903 Samuel Langley attempted to fly an engine-powered plane launched from a houseboat on this D.C. river

On May 6, 1937 Herb Morrison described its demise on the radio saying, "It's burning, bursting into flames"