# 👽 Area 51 Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. In which U.S. state is Area 51 located?  
**Answer:** Nevada  
**Taglines:**  
- What happens in Nevada... gets redacted  
- Casinos, deserts, and possibly E.T.  
- Come for Vegas, stay for the government denial  
- Nevada: great place to lose money *and* reality  
- Home of dust, secrets, and shady fences  

### 2. What branch of the U.S. government primarily uses Area 51?  
**Answer:** The U.S. Air Force  
**Taglines:**  
- When the Air Force flies, you don’t get to know  
- Technically "air base," actually "sci-fi headquarters"  
- Top guns with top secrets  
- Air Force: we believe in UFOs but won’t say it  
- They fly, you wonder why  

### 3. What is the *official* purpose of Area 51?  
**Answer:** Aircraft testing  
**Taglines:**  
- Nothing to see here, just planes that don’t exist  
- “Totally not aliens,” says Air Force guy #12  
- The best cover story since “dog ate my homework”  
- Flight club rule #1: Don’t talk about flight club  
- Planes, not little green men. *Allegedly.*  

### 4. What famous 1947 event is often linked to Area 51?  
**Answer:** The Roswell UFO incident  
**Taglines:**  
- Crash, cover-up, conspiracy—classic Americana  
- Not in Nevada, but somehow still related  
- The incident that launched 1,000 History Channel specials  
- Paper weather balloon? Sure, Jan  
- New Mexico spills, Nevada hides  

### 5. What highway is known as the "Extraterrestrial Highway"?  
**Answer:** Nevada State Route 375  
**Taglines:**  
- The only road where headlights aren’t the weirdest lights  
- GPS signal: sketchy. Vibes: immaculate.  
- Alien crossing signs not ironic  
- Perfect for joyrides and government surveillance  
- Beam me up, road trip  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Area 51 is located within the ______ Test and Training Range.  
**Answer:** Nevada  
**Taglines:**  
- That’s one big sandbox  
- Nevada: great for aliens and classified fun  
- Where Uncle Sam plays pretend  
- Training pilots and tinfoil hats  
- Good luck finding a map that says it  

### 2. The CIA first publicly acknowledged Area 51 in the year ______.  
**Answer:** 2013  
**Taglines:**  
- Took them long enough  
- “Surprise, it exists!” – CIA  
- Better late than never, I guess  
- Public secret: now official  
- We knew, they admitted, nobody’s shocked  

### 3. The nearest town to Area 51 is called ______.  
**Answer:** Rachel  
**Taglines:**  
- Population: skeptics and sandwich artists  
- Rachel: tiny, dusty, and *way* too close  
- Home of the “Alien Burger” and existential dread  
- Small town, big questions  
- Don’t blink or you’ll miss the UFO  

### 4. A viral event in 2019 was called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t ______ Us All.”  
**Answer:** Stop  
**Taglines:**  
- Famous last words of internet bravery  
- Naruto runners unite  
- The dumbest raid never attempted  
- They didn’t storm, but they *vibed*  
- Peak 2019 energy  

### 5. Area 51 is often associated with the alleged recovery of ______ spacecraft.  
**Answer:** Alien  
**Taglines:**  
- Totally normal military base with interstellar trash  
- The government’s garage of secrets  
- Alien tech: powered by memes and mystery  
- “We have the technology”… maybe  
- Now accepting galactic junk donations  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What city is closest to Area 51?  
A) Las Vegas  
B) Rachel ✅  
C) Reno  
D) Carson City  
**Taglines:**  
- Vegas got lights, Rachel got aliens  
- Small town, intergalactic hype  
- The quietest place with the loudest rumors  
- Population: 50. Speculation: infinite  
- Rachel: no Starbucks, but maybe a saucer  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What type of aircraft was tested at Area 51 during the Cold War?  
A) B-2 Spirit  
B) U-2 Spy Plane ✅  
C) F-22 Raptor  
D) SR-71 Blackbird  
**Taglines:**  
- U-2: not the band, the spycraft  
- Flies high, flies hush-hush  
- Secret plane, not so secret anymore  
- Cold War’s sneakiest sky ninja  
- Better than Bono, arguably  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] Which U.S. president reportedly asked for Area 51 information and was denied?  
A) Ronald Reagan  
B) Bill Clinton ✅  
C) George W. Bush  
D) Barack Obama  
**Taglines:**  
- Clinton wanted tea, got none  
- Even the president hit a wall  
- Secrets above clearance level  
- Sorry Bill, no aliens for you  
- “I did not have access to that file”  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What is the codename for Area 51 used in some declassified documents?  
A) Dreamland ✅  
B) Nightwatch  
C) Starbase  
D) Zero Point  
**Taglines:**  
- Dreamland: where your facts get fuzzy  
- Codename cooler than the truth  
- Government poetry at its finest  
- Dreamland: now with fewer dreams  
- Sounds peaceful, hides paranoia  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] The 2019 viral Area 51 event began as a joke posted on what platform?  
A) Reddit  
B) Twitter  
C) Facebook ✅  
D) TikTok  
**Taglines:**  
- Zuckerberg’s gift to chaos  
- From “poke” to “invade”  
- Boomers, aliens, and memes collide  
- Raid plans brought to you by Aunt Linda  
- Never underestimate a Facebook Event
