106 Lockheed Martin Trivia Questions (Ranked from Easiest to Hardest)

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106 Lockheed Martin Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2025)

1. The 1942 film "Desperate Journey" stars Errol Flynn and what future U.S. President as downed Allied airmen trying to repatriate a Lockheed Martin Hudson that had been captured by Germans?

Answer: Ronald Reagan

2. The fictional Darkstar plane, in which Captain Pete Mitchell achieves Mach-10 speed, was created by real Lockheed Martin engineers for what 2022 "Top Gun" reboot?

Answer: Maverick

3. At Lockheed’s High Speed what Tunnel (HSWT), makers of air and spacecraft can test out their models’ aerodynamics, stability, and propulsion?

Answer: Wind

4. Surrounded by photos of the L-1011 TriStar, Lloyd Bridges admits to picking the wrong day to stop sniffing glue in what 1980 slapstick farce?

Answer: Airplane!

5. Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, and Boeing are working on a military helicopter called the SB>1 what? The “D” adjective applies to a person showing bold disobedience.

Answer: Defiant

6. Which subsidiary of Lockheed (as of 2015) is based in Stratford, CT, and was one of the first companies to manufacture helicopters for both military and civilian use?

Answer: Sikorsky Aircraft

7. A company founded in 2006, with one half owned by Lockheed Martin and the other half owned by Boeing, with headquarters in Centennial, CO that operates rockets that can send craft into space, is called the United what Alliance?

Answer: Launch

8. According to Lockheed Martin, the only missiles that are combat proven hit-to-kill interceptors against other missiles are the what-3 missiles.

Answer: PAC-3

9. Raider X and Defiant X lead the way in the evolution of Lockheed's air vehicle design known as FVL, for Future what?

Answer: Vertical Lift

10. The Joint Strike Fighter program saw two prototypes compete to replace existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft in several countries. Lockheed Martin's prototype, the X-35, was declared the winner, but which company designed the X-32 which was beaten?

Answer: Boeing

11. Lockheed Martin partnered with director James Gray in the making of what 2019 film that starred Brad Pitt as an astronaut?

Answer: Ad Astra

12. What aircraft, acquired by Lockheed Martin when they purchased Sikorsky Aircraft, was created as a tactical transport helicopter but has been used in a variety of combat roles including in the United States' air assault on Somalia?

Answer: Black Hawk

13. One of Lockheed Martin’s core businesses is to offer missiles and what Control?.

Answer: Fire Control

14. Lockheed Martin is an active partner in a military initiative, begun in 2009, to create five new classes of military helicopters for U.S. Armed Forces, a project known as Future Vertical what?

Answer: Lift

15. Lockheed Martin makes a training system for what “C” tandem rotor helicopter made by Boeing?

Answer: Chinook

16. Among the swag you can purchase at the Lockheed Martin company store are golf balls by what "name" manufacturer, who claims it makes the "#1 ball in golf?"

Answer: Titleist

17. Starting in 1991, the Air Force hired Lockheed to manufacture which family of launch vehicles that shared its name with a Greek Titan who had to carry the world on his shoulders?

Answer: Atlas

18. What round, collectible "C.C." items did Lockheed Martin introduce during World War I, now issued at military, Department of Defense, and Lockheed Martin meetings as tokens of appreciation?

Answer: Challenge Coins

19. Which Fire Control Radar system for the Apache attack helicopter has been in production since 1996 and shares its name with an archery weapon that’s good for hunting or warfare?

Answer: Longbow

20. In 2021, which military branch made up a whopping 37% of Lockheed's new veteran hires?

Answer: Air Force

21. Lockheed’s C-5 what is the largest strategic airlifter in the Air Force (actually, it’s the only one)?

Answer: Galaxy

22. Lockheed’s STELaRLab is an industry innovation hub—which makes sense, considering the name is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Leadership, and what?

Answer: Research

23. As Sergeant First Class William James, Jeremy Renner steps off a Lockheed C-130 for another tour defusing bombs in Iraq at the end of what Best Picture Oscar winner?

Answer: The Hurt Locker

24. Lockheed is one of the main contractors developing the F-35 what II, a stealth combat aircraft with a stormy name that’s designed for warfare, surveillance, and reconnaissance?

Answer: Lightning

25. Among Mary Golda Ross’s many career accomplishments include becoming the first Native American woman to become a certified professional engineer and one of the founding members of the Lockheed program what “Works,” which involved top-secret space travel projects (and had nothing to do with investigating smelly woodland creatures).

Answer: Skunk

26. A Lockheed Martin turboprop C-130 transport gets CIA analyst Maya, played by Jessica Chastain, out of Afghanistan in what 2012 film?

Answer: Zero Dark Thirty

27. A joint venture of Lockheed and Raytheon, the FGM-148 portable anti-tank launcher shares its nickname with what decathlon event?

Answer: Javelin

28. In what year did Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta officially merge?

Answer: 1995

29. Previously owned by United Technologies, what is the name of the aircraft manufacturer based in Connecticut that Lockheed Martin acquired in 2015? The company was founded by its eponymous Ukrainian-American aviator in 1923.

Answer: Sikorsky Aircraft

30. A systems development methodology used by Lockheed Martin is named what two-word phrase that is also used to describe the structure of a DNA molecule?

Answer: double helix

31. Lockheed Martin has built six AEHF satellites, most recently one for the U.S. Space Force. AEHF stands for Advanced Extremely High WHAT?

Answer: frequency

32. Proving that everything old is new again, in 2006 Lockheed Martin tested the P-791, a modern hybrid version of what old-timey airship whose name means "capable of being steered?"

Answer: dirigible

33. Lockheed Martin is headquartered in what Maryland city? This “B” city shares its name with a videogame company known for Fallout and Elder Scrolls games.

Answer: Bethesda

34. In 2021, Lockheed Martin renewed its relationship with what “N” shipbuilding company, a state-owned Spanish company? Its name is a derivative of a latin word meaning “to do enthusiastically.”

Answer: Navantia

35. An F-22 Raptor works with the Autobots in what loud, constantly changing movie series?

Answer: Transformers

36. In August of 1912, Glenn Martin established his company after finishing the construction of his first-ever plane in what unlikely community location?

Answer: Church

37. What “L” NASA space probe built by Lockheed Martin launched in 2021 on a 12-year mission to visit eight different asteroids, including seven in Jupiter’s orbit? It shares its name with a character from a Beatles song, the “girl with Kaleidoscope eyes.”

Answer: Lucy

38. A sky crane for a soft landing was a piece of cool tech on the aeroshell Lockheed Martin designed for NASA's Perseverance rover mission on what planet?

Answer: Mars

39. Spencer Tracy played the ghost of a pilot who died while flying a Lockheed P-38 Lightning in what 1943 film that was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar?

Answer: A Guy Named Joe

40. During the ‘90s, Lockheed Martin developed the graphics system for what video game company’s Model 3 system for arcade games including “Virtua Fighter 3”, “SpikeOut”, and “Star Wars Trilogy Arcade”?

Answer: Sega

41. The Lockheed Martin C-130J military aircraft is named for what mythological Greek hero whose 12 labors included mucking out the Augean Stables?

Answer: Hercules

42. Lockheed Martin manufactures what “G” Flow technology, which provides long-duration and large-capacity energy storage?

Answer: Gridstar Flow

43. The predecessor of the space shuttle program, the teardrop-shaped X-24 plane was tested by NASA and the Air Force under a program with what guessable, five-letter P-word codename?

Answer: PILOT

44. Later remade into a TV movie starring George Clooney, what 1964 Sidney Lumet Cold War thriller film features a Convair B-58 Hustler supersonic jet bomber?

Answer: Fail-Safe

45. A highly modified Boeing 737-440, designed as an avionics flight testbed aircraft by Lockheed Martin, goes by what compound word, which sounds like a feline that can fly like an avian creature?

Answer: CATBird

46. Lockheed Martin builds CH-53K for the United States Marine Corps. The CH-53K is what type of vehicle, first practically built in 1939 by Igor Sikorsky?

Answer: Helicopter

47. Which subsidiary of Lockheed and Martin specializes in producing navigation and search equipment and gets its name from a small muscle between the eyebrows?

Answer: Procerus

48. A land-based missile defense system made by Lockheed Martin is the what Ashore?

Answer: Aegis Ashore

49. A Fire Control Radar, or FCR, system made by Lockheed Martin for Apache helicopters, shares its name with what tall “L” implement used by an archer, allowing for a fairly long draw on arrows?

Answer: Longbow Fire Control Radar

50. Lockheed Martin’s AIR 5428 Training System is used to train people for what profession, a key actor in the operation of an aircraft?

Answer: Pilot

51. Lockheed Martin manufactures the F-16, a single-engine multirole fighter aircraft also known as the Fighting what? It’s a bird of prey that comes in a peregrine variety.

Answer: Fighting Falcon

52. Lockheed Martin's C-5 airlifter is also known by what name, which is shared with a popular line of Samsung mobile phones?

Answer: Galaxy

53. Lockheed Martin makes the AGTS, the Advanced what Training System?

Answer: Advanced Gunnery Training System

54. A strategic airlifter made by Lockheed Martin is the C-5 what? Also a word for a system of millions of stars held together by gravitational attraction.

Answer: C-5 Galaxy

55. Lockheed Martin uses power systems and generators from an aerospace company known as what-well? It’s a sweet substance made by bees and enjoyed by Winnie The Pooh.

Answer: Honeywell

56. About 5,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 776 in what Texas city voted in April 2022 to ratify a new contract with Lockheed Martin?

Answer: Fort Worth

57. On May 23, 2022, Lockheed Martin and what independent organization, FF for short, announced plans to demonstrate a blockchain network in space?

Answer: Filecoin Foundation

58. In 1995, Lockheed completed a “merger of equals” with which aerospace manufacturing company to form its current corporation?

Answer: Martin Marietta

59. In 1996 Lockheed Martin began its sponsorship of the Fincastle Maintenance Trophy, an award that is competed for by aircrew from the Royal Air Forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and which other country?

Answer: New Zealand

60. You’ll find helicopters, radar, and missiles, as well as computer and engineering experts, in Lockheed’s what and Mission Systems?

Answer: Rotary

61. What’s the Native American-inspired, double-A name for Lockheed’s Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor?

Answer: Apache Arrowhead

62. Formerly the CEO of American Tower Corporation, what executive became CEO of Lockheed Martin in June 2020?

Answer: James D. Taiclet

63. Sharing its name with the fifth brightest star in the night sky, what model of Lockheed airliner was the Winnie Mae, the high-wing monoplane used by Wiley Post to make the first solo round-the-world flight?

Answer: Vega (Lockheed Vega 5C)

64. Which Lockheed helicopter shares a name with an avian treetop home or the location for a ship’s lookout and uses high-powered radar to support the Royal Navy in protecting its Queen Elizabeth class carriers?

Answer: Crowsnest

65. Billed as Lockheed’s “next generation of radar technology for use in its long-range radar products,” DART is an acronym that stands for Digital what Row Transceiver?

Answer: Array

66. During World War II, Charles Lindbergh taught U.S. Air Force pilots to fly the Lockheed Martin P-38, which is known by what "electric" name?

Answer: Lightning

67. Lockheed Martin and Unreal Engine want to develop better training simulations. What huge-sounding video game company makes Unreal Engine?

Answer: Epic Games

68. Which Lockheed subsidiary founded in 1984 and based in Fairfax, Virginia, provides communication solutions for national security and intelligence operations?

Answer: Zeta Associates

69. Long before he became Lockheed’s CEO, James Taiclet started out as a pilot and officer in which branch of the U.S. military?

Answer: Air Force

70. Which Lockheed company headquartered in Wisconsin is the go-to if you need to replace something in a fixed-wing aircraft, since it keeps over 20,000 unique parts in stock?

Answer: Derco

71. The brand new Lockheed Martin Australian Corporate office was opened by the Australian Defence Minister in 2018 in which non-coastal Australian city?

Answer: Canberra

72. In 1912, The Martin Company co-founder Glenn Martin broke an open-water flight distance record aviating from Newport Beach to what sheep-covered California island that makes a mean salad dressing?

Answer: Catalina

73. The screechy Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet is nicknamed for what screechy, predatory bird?

Answer: Falcon

74. What six-letter acronym names the precise and easily-moved-around rocket-launching system supplied by the U.S. to Ukraine, used with great success against Russia in the ongoing war?

Answer: HIMARS

75. What Lockheed Martin aircraft, introduced in 2005, was an air superiority fighter that was the first to feature supercruise? That's a term meaning supersonic without use of afterburners.

Answer: F-22 Raptor

76. A Lockheed Martin Model 10 Electra is the plane used by Victor and Ilsa to escape the title city in what classic 1942 film?

Answer: Casablanca

77. With a name coming from the moonshine factory in the comic strip “Li'l Abner,” what is the official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs?

Answer: Skunk Works

78. The LM100J by Lockheed Martin holds a Guinness World Record as being the heaviest aircraft to perform what kind of aerobatic move?

Answer: Loop

79. Lockheed Martin is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is also the location of the main campus of what federal agency abbreviated NIH?

Answer: National Institutes of Health

80. Lockheed Martin reached Mach 3 with its SR-71 reconnaissance plane, nicknamed for what Paul McCartney-approved fowl?

Answer: Blackbird

81. Although Lockheed Martin's headquarters are located in Bethesda, Maryland, its space HQ is found in what city approximately 1,600 miles west of Bethesda?

Answer: Denver

82. Lockheed picked up a Collier Award in 1958 for developing the supersonic F-104, a plane known by what nickname that suggests it could battle the Sun?

Answer: Starfighter

83. The Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship by Lockheed Martin, provided the inspiration for villain Elliot Carver's high-tech vessel in what 1997 James Bond film?

Answer: Tomorrow Never Dies

84. What hand-launched, electrically powered unmanned vehicle designed by Lockheed Martin in 2006 shares its name with a 1979 post-apocalyptic Andrei Tarkovsky movie?

Answer: Stalker

85. What “D” Lockheed Martin subsidiary has one of the largest aircraft spares inventories in the world?

Answer: Derco

86. Lockheed Martin and the United States Air Force have a project to defend space from artificial satellites and debris known as the Space what?

Answer: Space Fence

87. In 2021, Lockheed Martin took over ground control responsibility for what unmanned tanker, formerly controlled by Naval Air Systems Command? It shares its name with a group of cartilaginous sand dwelling fish, known to hurt humans who accidentally touch it.

Answer: stingray

88. DMOC stands for Lockheed’s Distributed what Operations Center, which is an essential tool for Air Force training?

Answer: Mission

89. Which hero of ancient mythology/animated Disney stud completes the name of the C-130J Super what ?

Answer: Hercules

90. In 1930, Charles Lindbergh worked with Lockheed Martin to design an airplane model named after what "dog star"?

Answer: Sirius

91. In 1912, Glenn Martin founded his namesake company in Los Angeles. There, he had built his first plane in a rented church and was encouraged to use an innovative design by what famous aviator?

Answer: Orville Wright

92. In which state is Lockheed’s Space Headquarters located?

Answer: Colorado

93. Lockheed Martin founded a company in 2006, headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, that operates rocket vehicles that can send vehicles into orbit, the United what Alliance?

Answer: Launch

94. Designed for coastal warfare, Lockheed's LCS is a Combat Ship whose "L" stands for what word that roughly means "a shoreline area"?

Answer: Littoral

95. The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft developed for NASA’s Artemis program features a crew module designed by Lockheed Martin, and a service module manufactured by what multinational aerospace corporation headquartered in Leiden?

Answer: Airbus

96. As Air Force Colonel "Chappy" Sinclair, Louis Gossett Jr. helps a teen gank a couple of F-16s for a clandestine rescue mission in what definitely-not-"Top Gun" 1986 movie?

Answer: Iron Eagle

97. What Lockheed Martin product is an integrated naval weapons system to allow warships to both track and guide weapons, contributing to the missile defense systems when in use?

Answer: Aegis

98. What is the name of the annual aviation award awarded by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association (NAA) for the "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America" in a given year? Lockheed Martin has won the award six times, including in 2018 for the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS).

Answer: Collier Trophy

99. Primarily designed by Lockheed Martin and the European Service Module, what is the stellar name of the line of partially reusable space capsules that are set to be used in upcoming NASA human spaceflights?

Answer: Orion

100. After the government expressed concerns about how powerful the team could be, which competitor company did Lockheed decide not to merge with in 1998?

Answer: Northrop Grumman

101. Canceled before development was complete, a Skunk Works concept for a submarine-launched unmanned air vehicle was named for what "C"-bird known for its long neck and dark plumage?

Answer: Cormorant

102. The pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs, "Skunk Works," came from what comic strip? This comic strip, about the inhabitants of the fictional town of Dogpatch, USA, ran from 1934 to 1977.

Answer: Lil' Abner

103. When founded in the 1920s, Lockheed was spelled as it is today, phonetically. However, the founder's last name was spelled differently on his birth certificate and he changed the spelling to be more phonetic when founding Lockheed. How was the founder Allan L's last name originally spelled?

Answer: Loughead

104. The Lockheed Martin P-175 was an unmanned aerial vehicle sometimes referred to by what feline-sounding "P" nickname?

Answer: Polecat

105. An F-117 Nighthawk delivers Kurt Russell and a special operations team to rescue a hijacked 747 in what cheesy 1996 action movie that no president ever really asked for?

Answer: Executive Decision

106. Lockheed Martin was formed by the 1995 merger between Lockheed and Martin who? It’s also the name of a Georgia city that is home to the Gone With The Wind museum.

Answer: Marietta

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