Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  She was the first woman to pilot a space shuttle.

2)  In South America, this country's leader is remembered as "The Liberator."

3)  This crime story author created the popular detective Phillip Marlowe in a series of books which included The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye.

4)  He was the first criminal to have been designated by the FBI as "Public Enemy Number One."

Answers:

1)  In February 1995, after several years of training with NASA, Eileen Collins became the first female astronaut to pilot a space shuttle mission when she served as second-in-command of the shuttle Discovery during its unprecedented rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. In May 1997, Collins piloted her second mission, on the shuttle Atlantis, during its delivery of 7,000 pounds of equipment to Mir.
Collins had logged 419 hours in space by the time she was chosen by NASA to become its first female shuttle commander. The shuttle Columbia, under Collin's command, made history on July 23, 1999, when it blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on its way to the deployment of a $1.5 billion telescope into earth's orbit. (source: biography.com)

2)  Simon Bolivar

3)  Raymond Chandler

4)  John Dillinger