Travelling on the Internet Trivia Quiz

Answer: Priceline

William Shatner, aka Captain James T. Kirk, became the spokesperson for Priceline in 1998. The Priceline company was started by entrepreneur Jay S. Walker in Norwalk, Connecticut. The company was the first to enable customers to negotiate travel deals by submitting the price they would be willing to pay for flights, hotels, or other vacation packages.

Answer: Travelocity

Travelocity was created in 1996 with a base in Southlake, Texas. Travelocity.com was the very first website to allow customers to work as their own travel agent in reserving, booking, and purchasing airfares, hotel rooms, rental cars, cruises, and vacation packages.

The garden gnomes became the mascot of the company in early 2004 inspired by the "travelling gnome" prank begun in the 1980s and dramatized in the 2001 French film "Amélie".

Answer: Kayak

Kayak.com started as a U.S. based search engine website designed to aggregate information from over a hundred travel sites in order to help customers find great deals on travel-related needs. The company was co-founded by executives from Orbitz (Steve Hafner), Travelocity (Terry Jones), Expedia (Greg Slyngstad), and Intuit (Paul English). The company was formed in 2004 and launched publicly in 2005.

Answer: Expedia

Expedia was originally founded as a division of Microsoft in 1996 and became its own entity in 1999. In 2001, Expedia was purchased by Ticketmaster in 2001. In 2008, Expedia was ranked by "Fortune" as the 3rd most admired Internet company based in the United States after IAC (InterActiveCorp) and Google.

Answer: StudentUniverse

StudentUniverse was founded in 1992 uniquely as a student travel agency. In 2000 it started to offer its services online. The company was founded by Fredrik Carl Stormer and Espen Odegard.

Answer: Orbitz

Orbitz Worldwide Inc., was launched in 2001. Continental Airlines, United Airlines, Northwest, Delta, and American Airlines invested a shared total of $145 million to start the Orbitz project in November 1999.

Answer: www.cheapstudentstravel.com

Cheapertravel.com is a company that started out in New Mexico. Cheaptickets.com started as a subsidary and partner of Orbitz. Cheapoair.com began as a New York City company that had a specialization in discount airline tickets.

Answer: airgorilla.com

Airgorilla.com, a company that based in San Diego California, first began offering travel agency services in 2001. As of 2023, it was known as "flightgorilla".

Answer: Travelzoo

Travelzoo employed researchers, journalists, and professionals to accurately test travel deals for availability, consistency, quality, and overall ease of booking. Travelzoo was founded by former television journalist Ralph Bartel in 1998 and published its first "Top 20" list in September of 2000.

Answer: Hotwire

Hotwire found its niche by offering and selling unsold travel inventory at discount prices. The company was launched in 2000 by Karl Peterson, Gregg Brockway, Spencer Rascoff, Eric Grosse and with the support of six airlines: American, Continental, U.S. Airways, United, Northwest, and America West.