Playing The Fields

The Jet-stream ease of modern travel has played havoc with the voyager who would impress by the classic gambit of geographical namedropping. Gone are the days when one could incite envy among one's friends by casual mention of Paris, Tokyo or Bombay; try it today and--comes the yawn. Familiarity has bred, if not contempt, at least a modicum of ennui.

Happily, the practitioners of travel one-upmanship have recently devised a new ploy: the delightful discovery that airport names are much more exotic than the mildewed monikers of city and burg. To help you test your own knowledge of far-flung airfields, we offer the following quiz. If you can match name and location of at least 15 of the 25 listed, give yourself an A for Aerodromology. Eight to 14 correct: you need more field research. Less than eight: turn in your flight bag to the agent at the ticket counter.

Answers:1-F; 2-J; 3-S; 4-M; 5-N; 6-O; 7-B; 8-P; 9-Q; 10-G; 11-V; 12-T; 13-L; 14-Y; 15-I; 16-W; 17-H; 18-A; 19-K; 20-R; 21-X; 22-C; 23-E; 24-U; 25-D