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Second World War Quiz
Which country did Stalin’s Soviet Union invade on 17 September 1939?
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Poland
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Finland
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Germany
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China
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Poland. Having aligned itself with Hitler’s Germany following the Nazi-Soviet Pact of the previous month, the USSR invaded and occupied Eastern Poland 16 days after the Wehrmacht invasion [the German invasion of Poland].
The most prolific sniper of the Second World War, with more than 500 ‘kills’, came from which country?
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Finland
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Soviet Union
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Germany
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United States
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Finland. Corporal Simo Häyhä made more than 500 ‘kills’ fighting the Red Army during the short ‘Winter War’ of November 1939 to March 1940. He survived the war, and died in 2002.
During the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940, the French village of L'Epinette was the scene of the only Second World War combat death caused by a particular weapon. What was it?
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A longbow
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A mace
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A slingshot
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A musket ball
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A longbow. Eccentric ‘Mad’ Jack Churchill, of the Manchester Regiment, engaged a German patrol using his longbow, killing an NCO.
The German bombing of Coventry in November 1940 was one of the most seminal moments in Britain’s war. But how many were killed during the raid?
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Around 600
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Around 2,000
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Around 6,000
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Around 10,000
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It was around 600. An estimated 568 were killed in the bombing of Coventry in November 1940, despite more than two thirds of the city being destroyed. Goebbels coined the word ‘coventriert’, to describe destruction by bombing.
The Waffen-SS divisions numbered 13, 21 and 23 were predominantly comprised of…?
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Muslims
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Convicted criminals
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Soviet POWs
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Ethnic Germans
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The answer is Muslims. The three Waffen-SS Divisions ‘Handschar’, ‘Skanderbeg’ and ‘Kama’ were raised from Muslim populations of Bosnia and Albania. All three were considered politically and militarily unreliable by Berlin.
Which US general vowed “I shall return” after he and his forces were driven out of the Philippines by the victorious Japanese in 1942?
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Douglas MacArthur
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George Marshall
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Omar Bradley
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Dwight D Eisenhower
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It was Douglas MacArthur. He kept his promise – two years later, in October 1944, he returned to the Philippines and proclaimed “I have returned”.
Which French port witnessed an Allied amphibious raid by a largely Canadian force in August 1942?
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Dieppe
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Le Havre
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Boulogne
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Bordeaux
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The answer is Dieppe. Operation Jubilee was intended to hold Dieppe for a short period to gather intelligence and show Allied offensive ability. Despite being a failure, with 60 per cent losses, it prepared the ground for D-Day two years later.
Which was the only one of Germany’s capital surface ships to survive the war intact?
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Prinz Eugen
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Blücher
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Graf Spee
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Admiral Hipper
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The answer is Prinz Eugen. Captured in Copenhagen, the vessel was given to the United States and subsequently used as a target ship for the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. She now lies, capsized and irradiated, at Kwajalein Atoll.
Which charismatic British military commander of the Second World War ate raw onions, wandered about naked and was one of the fathers of guerrilla warfare?
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Orde Wingate
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Bernard Montgomery
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Colin Gubbins
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Archibald Wavell
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It was Orde Wingate. Wingate was thoroughly unconventional and considered “too mad for high command”, yet his ‘Chindits’ in the Burmese Campaign were archetypes of guerrilla warfare. He died in a plane crash in 1944.
The official Japanese surrender, on 2 September 1945, took place aboard which US battleship, moored in Tokyo Bay?
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USS Missouri
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USS Indianapolis
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USS Arizona
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USS Oklahoma
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The answer is USS Missouri. The Missouri was the only one of these four to survive the war. Arizona and Oklahoma were sunk at Pearl Harbor, and Indianapolis was torpedoed in the Pacific in July 1945.
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