General Awareness: Travelling on the Internet Quiz

1. Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise hung up his "phaser" and "tricorder" to help which internet search site beam up tourists?

a) Cheaptickets
b) Orbitz
c) Priceline
d) Travelocity

The correct answer is c) Priceline

2. Garden gnomes are funny looking creatures but they proved to be successful marketers for which of the following online travel companies?

a) Orbitz
b) Travelocity
c) Travelwire
d) Cheapotickets

The correct answer is b) Travelocity

3. Which of the following watersport "boats" gave its name to a major internet travel company?

a) Kayak
b) Surfski
c) Canoe
d) Catamaran

The correct answer is a) Kayak

4. Which of the following internet travel search companies was first started by microsoft in 1996 and in the first decade of the 21st century was the largest provider of hotel bookings in the world?

a) Travelocity
b) Travelscape
c) Orbitz
d) Expedia

The correct answer is d) Expedia

5. Which of the following companies, based in Waltham Massachusetts, enjoyed success marketing discount online travel services to college students and professors?

a) LeapFrog
b) CollegeFares
c) StudentUniverse
d) WorldTravel

The correct answer is c) StudentUniverse

6. Which of the following internet travel companies publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as the ticker symbol OWW?

a) Orion
b) Orbitz
c) OnWest
d) OctopusWorldWide

The correct answer is b) Orbitz

7. Which of the following was NOT an internet-based travel company found online at the turn of the century (in the year 2000)?

a) www.cheaptickets.com
b) www.cheapertravel.com
c) www.cheapoair.com
d) www.cheapstudentstravel.com

The correct answer is d) www.cheapstudentstravel.com

8. Which of the following "monkey-moniker" companies offered internet travel services online?

a) airchimpanzee.com
b) airbaboon.com
c) airlemur.com
d) airgorilla.com

The correct answer is d) airgorilla.com

9. Which of the following internet-travel companies employed several hundred "Deal Experts" whose job it was to research, negotiate, and evaluate best travel deals worldwide?

a) Travelschool
b) Travelzoo
c) Travelmall
d) Travelpark

The correct answer is b) Travelzoo

10. Which of the following internet travel companies was originally code-named "Purple Demon" before its initial launch?

a) Orbitz
b) Priceline
c) Travelocity
d) Hotwire

The correct answer is d) Hotwire