Air America Trivia Quiz

Answer: Giving traffic reports on a radio station

He flew down by a semi and made some not-too-nice remarks about the driver who was blocking both lanes of traffic when there was an ambulance trying to get through to an accident. Unfortunately, the truck driver happened to be listening to that station and was a little irked. He gave Billy the finger and said a few choice swear words to him as he flew off.

Answer: false

Billy signed up for Air America, a secret operation in Laos that carried and dropped cargo down to the Laoasian people. Piece of cake, right? Unfortunately, the North Vietnamese soldiers were moving into the country and trying to cut off supplies, making it a dangerous job for the American civilian pilots. Billy didn't get told that part of the deal.

Answer: Left big toe

He got it shot off right through the floor of the cockpit and had it cremated. He kept the ashes from it around his neck. Billy asked him why he didn't have it sewn back on and he responded, "Well, I figure once a piece of me gets shot off, I really don't want it back anymore." Babo (another pilot that was flying with them) told him that the toe was still with them in spirit.

Answer: Colored in a coloring book

He and Babo were each coloring a picture in the book and fighting over the crayons because Babo told Gene that "the last time you colored the sky all purple it looked stupid." Meanwhile, Billy nearly flew into a mountain and was trying to ask them if there are any higher peaks than that. Gene told him, "Don't bother me while I'm coloring."

Answer: false

General Soong came to the crash site and loaded up the illegal cargo that was on the plane, then took off, leaving Billy, Jack and Kwan behind. "We no go home now." - "Opium go home now."

Answer: Gene

Gene crashed out of it then rolled down an embankment. As he laid there groaning and in pain, he told Billy the landing was pretty soft!

Answer: His plane got shot down.

Jack was always saying that the "golden B.B." would someday kill him. That "B.B" hit his plane while he was on a recovery mission looking for Gene and Billy. For those of you that chose he went crazy, that was a good guess - anybody that built a mini-golf course in his backyard, got drunk and then went out and shot lizards on it all night long had to be a little off! (He always used a silencer on his gun though because he was a respectful man.)

Answer: Blew up the illegal drug factory

The factory was in an old Pepsi Cola bottling plant. He used a make-shift bomb to blow it up - 3 grenades on top of a lit Bunson burner with a can of gasoline set next to it. Billy was feeling pretty good about the whole thing until Gene informed him that the bomb only shut the factory down for a whole three hours.

He also said, "There was a cloud of opium smoke over the town last night."

Answer: He landed the plane inside another plane.

Two of the head people at Air America were trying to keep it from an American senator that they were knowingly letting General Soong use their planes to transport his opium, so they set Billy up to take the fall. Fortunately, thanks to Billy's quick thinking, the plan failed and the senator saw through the set-up.

Answer: True

General Soong wanted the village because it was right next to the poppy fields (a.k.a. his source of opium), so the village had to be evacuated. Gene received a call for help from an aid saying that the village was under heavy fire and they needed help evacuating the people. Meanwhile, he was carrying the "nest egg" for his retirement (all the guns he had collected throughout the movie) to a potential buyer, so when the call came in he had to make a choice.

He chose to fly the villagers out of there and ended up blowing up his entire cargo of guns so they wouldn't fall into enemy hands.