Quiz Monkey
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Quiz Monkey |
It would be fair to say that this is not my favourite type of question. When I go on holiday – or even when I used to travel on business – the last thing on my mind is the name of the airport that I'll be flying to. Some quiz setters, however, seem to think differently ...
And having said that, I have to admit that some of them are quite interesting – particularly the ones that are named after people. If you're setting questions, my advice – make that my plea – is to use this topic with discretion.
The names of many airports include the name of the city they serve, but also include another identifier – often one that on its own would give you a clue to the name of the city. For example: Liverpool John Lennon, or Milan–Malpensa. In such cases I've left out the name of the city (obviously).
| Q: Which city (or region, island, etc.) is served by ... (airport)? | A: | |
| Queen Alia International |
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Amman (Jordan) |
| Schiphol |
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Amsterdam |
| V. C. Bird |
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Antigua |
Hartsfield–Jackson
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Atlanta |
| Heydar Aliyev
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Baku |
| Grantley Adams |
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Barbados |
| ... the airport that was known until 1983 as Aldergrove |
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Belfast |
| Tagel, Tempelhof (closed in 2008), Schönefeld |
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Berlin |
| ... the airport that opened in 1939 as Elmdon Airport |
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Birmingham |
| ... the airport formerly known as Squire's Gate |
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Blackpool |
| El Dorado |
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Bogotá |
| Gugliemo Marconi |
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Bologna |
| Sahar, Santa Cruz |
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Bombay |
| Logan |
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Boston |
| Hurn |
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Bournemouth |
| Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek (after the 21st president of the country whose capital this is, during whose incumbency the city was built) |
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Brasilia |
| Lulsgate |
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Bristol |
| Ferenc Liszt International |
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Budapest |
| Bob Hope |
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Burbank, California |
| Simon Bolivar International |
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Caracas |
| (Formerly known as) Rhoose
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Cardiff |
| O'Hare – the world's largest airport |
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Chicago |
| Konrad Adenauer Airport is the alternative name for |
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Cologne Bonn Airport |
| Bandaranaike International |
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Colombo (Sri Lanka) |
| Kastrup |
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Copenhagen |
| Indira Gandhi (formerly Palam) |
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(New) Delhi |
| Stapleton |
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Denver |
| Julius Nyerere International (so named in 2006) |
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Dar es Salaam |
| ... the airport formerly known as Turnhouse |
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Edinburgh |
| Rhine–Main International |
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Frankfurt |
| Cristiano Ronaldo International (so renamed in 2017) |
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Funchal (Madeira) |
| Cointrin |
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Geneva |
| Cristoforo Colombo |
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Genoa |
| Federico García Lorca |
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Granada (and Jaén) |
| Gerald R. Ford International (known until 1999 as Kent County)
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Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Maurice Bishop International |
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Grenada |
| José Martí International (named after the 19th–century "Apostle of Independence" for the country of which this is the capital) |
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Havana |
| Chek Lap Kok (formerly Kai Tak) |
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Hong Kong |
| George Bush Intercontinental (named after George H. W. Bush) |
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Houston |
| Benazir Bhutto International (renamed in 2008) |
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Islamabad |
| Ronaldsway |
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Isle of Man |
| O. R. Tambo (formerly Jan Smuts – known in between by the name of the city) |
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Johannesburg |
| Hamid Karzai International (so named in 2014) |
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Kabul |
| Norman Manley International |
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Kingston, Jamaica |
| Dum–dum |
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Kolkata (Calcutta) |
| Arecife |
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Lanzarote |
| J. F. Kennedy |
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La Paz |
| McCarran |
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Las Vegas |
| Shannon |
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Limerick |
| Humberto Delgado
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Lisbon |
| Bill and Hillary Clinton National |
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Little Rock (Arkansas) |
| John Lennon (known prior to 2001 as Speke) |
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Liverpool |
| Adolfo Suarez – Barajas
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Madrid |
| Luqa |
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Malta |
| Ninoy Aquino
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Manila |
| Tullamarine |
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Melbourne |
| Benito Juárez International |
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Mexico City |
| Malpensa, Linate |
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Milan |
| Pierre Elliott Trudeau International (f.k.a. Dorval), Mirabel (cargo only since 2004) |
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Montreal |
| Sheremetyevo |
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Moscow |
| Jomo Kenyatta International |
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Nairobi |
| Capodichino |
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Naples |
| Gander |
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Newfoundland |
| Louis Armstrong International (known until 2001 as Moisant Field) |
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New Orleans |
| La Guardia, Kennedy, Newark |
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New York |
| John Wayne |
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Orange County, California |
| Fornebu until 1998, Gardermoen since then |
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Oslo |
| Macdonald–Cartier
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Ottawa |
| Orly, Roissy–Charles de Gaulle |
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Paris |
| Giuseppe Verdi Airport is an alternative name for the airport of |
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Parma |
| Galileo Galilei (no longer known by this name) |
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Pisa |
| Václav Havel |
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Prague |
| King Khaled |
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Riyadh |
| Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino |
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Rome |
| W. A. Mozart |
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Salzburg |
| Changi (also the name of the city's prison) |
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Singapore |
| Alexander the Great |
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Skopje |
| Arlanda (Skavsta is a low–cost alternative) |
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Stockholm |
| Kingsford Smith |
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Sydney |
| Chang Kai–Shek |
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Taipei |
| Ben Gurion |
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Tel Aviv |
| Reina Sofia |
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Tenerife |
| General Abelard L. Rodriguez |
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Tijuana |
| Nënë Tereza International (named after Mother Teresa) |
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Tirana |
| Narita, Hanneda International |
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Tokyo |
| Lester B. Pearson International, Billy Bishop City |
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Toronto |
| Marco Polo |
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Venice |
| Frederic Chopin |
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Warsaw |
| Dulles, Reagan National |
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Washington DC |
| City served by the airport formerly known as Dyce |
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Aberdeen |
| US city served by Hartsfield–Jackson International – the world's busiest airport
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Atlanta |
| Manchester's first airport (1929) – renamed City Airport Manchester in 2007 |
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Barton Aerodrome |
| Belfast City Airport was renamed in 2006 after (local sporting hero who died in November 2005) |
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George Best |
| IATA code DFW |
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Dallas–Fort Worth |
| Replaced (below) as the world's busiest international airport (most international passengers) in 2014 |
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Dubai |
| Airport serving Kampala (Uganda), where Israeli forces rescued hostages from an Air France airbus in 1976 |
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Entebbe |
| The world's busiest international airport (most international passengers) – until 2013 |
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Heathrow |
| Former name of John F. Kennedy Airport (renamed on 24 December 1963) |
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Idlewild |
| Asia's busiest airport (number of passengers) |
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Kai Tak (Hong Kong) |
| Chief airport of Israel (where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine killed 26 people in 1972) |
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Lod |
| The headquarters of EasyJet are in Hangar 89, at |
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Luton |
| Former name of Kent International Airport: RAF |
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Manston |
| The world's largest airport |
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O'Hare (Chicago) |
| 29 miles from Glasgow: scene of Elvis Presley's only visit to Britain (1960), when the US army transport plane that he was in touched down to refuel |
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Prestwick |
| Heathrow Terminal 4: opened by |
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Princess Diana |
| Europe's second–busiest airport |
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Rhine–Main, Frankfurt |
| Two words dropped in December 2016 from the name of the airport that opened in 2005 on the site of the former RAF Finningley, serving Doncaster and Sheffield |
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Robin Hood |
| The first airport to introduce duty–free shopping (1947) |
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Shannon |
| Sussex venue of the airshow at which a vintage Hawker Hunter T7 aircraft crashed into vehicles on the A27 trunk road in 2015, resulting in 11 deaths and 16 other casualties |
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Shoreham |
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