How much do you know about the second world war?
Discussion
As per thread title.
I have devised a quick quiz just off the top of my head.
PLEASE DO NOT POST UP THE ANSWERS, but just post up your score, how many you got right out of 20.
Obviously you are NOT allowed to Google the answers, that would be defeating the point of the quiz, so please don't cheat.
Have fun...
1 What date was D day in 1944?
2 Which fighter plane shot down the most German planes in the Battle of Britain?
3 Who was Heinrich Himmler?
4 What was Operation Overlord?
5 What was Operation Barbarossa?
6 What kind of ship was HMS Victorious?
7 What was General Rommel's nickname?
8 What American battleship did the Japanese surrender on in Tokyo Bay in 1945?
9 What was a doodelbug?
10 What was a Morrison shelter?
11 What famous flying boat was made by the Short company?
12 Which Japanese Battleship was the heaviest in the world and had the biggest guns?
13 Who was Lord Haw Haw, and what was his name and nationality?
14 What country was Adolf Hitler born in?
15 Which country developed the T 34 tank?
16 Name two of the five of the code names for the Normandy beaches at D Day?
17 Who was Alan Turing?
18 What was Zyklon B?
19 Who's part did Michael Redgrave play in the 1955 film "The Dambusters"?
20 What was "Enola Gay"
PLEASE....DO NOT POST ANY ANSWERS UP, Just your score out of 20. (You can post your age if you wish to, I'm interested in how much younger PH'ers know about this topic, if anything at all?)
Here are the answers.
1 June 6th
2 Hurricane
3 Head of the SS and Gestapo and was previously an ex chicken farmer
4 D Day
5 The German invasion of Russia in 1942
6 Aircraft Carrier
7 The Desert Fox
8 USS Missouri
9 The V1 Flying Bomb first used in 1944
10 A shelter from German bombs you could sleep under, which doubled up as a table, to be kept indoors.
11. The Short Sunderland.
12 Yamato (And her sister ship Musashi)
13 He used to broadcast German propaganda over the radio into the UK....His name was William Joyce and
he was American/Irish. "This is Germany calling..This is Germany calling"
14 Austria
15 Russia
16 Juno Sword Omaha Utah Gold
17 One of the famous Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
18 The trade name for the tablets dropped into the gas chambers in the German concentration camps.
(Hydrogen cyanide/Prussic acid)
19 Barnes Wallis (The inventor of the famous bouncing bomb used in the raids)
20 It was the name on the front of the Boeing B29 Superfortress which dropped the first Atom bomb on
Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. (Enola Gay was the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets)
I have devised a quick quiz just off the top of my head.
PLEASE DO NOT POST UP THE ANSWERS, but just post up your score, how many you got right out of 20.
Obviously you are NOT allowed to Google the answers, that would be defeating the point of the quiz, so please don't cheat.
Have fun...
1 What date was D day in 1944?
2 Which fighter plane shot down the most German planes in the Battle of Britain?
3 Who was Heinrich Himmler?
4 What was Operation Overlord?
5 What was Operation Barbarossa?
6 What kind of ship was HMS Victorious?
7 What was General Rommel's nickname?
8 What American battleship did the Japanese surrender on in Tokyo Bay in 1945?
9 What was a doodelbug?
10 What was a Morrison shelter?
11 What famous flying boat was made by the Short company?
12 Which Japanese Battleship was the heaviest in the world and had the biggest guns?
13 Who was Lord Haw Haw, and what was his name and nationality?
14 What country was Adolf Hitler born in?
15 Which country developed the T 34 tank?
16 Name two of the five of the code names for the Normandy beaches at D Day?
17 Who was Alan Turing?
18 What was Zyklon B?
19 Who's part did Michael Redgrave play in the 1955 film "The Dambusters"?
20 What was "Enola Gay"
PLEASE....DO NOT POST ANY ANSWERS UP, Just your score out of 20. (You can post your age if you wish to, I'm interested in how much younger PH'ers know about this topic, if anything at all?)
Here are the answers.
1 June 6th
2 Hurricane
3 Head of the SS and Gestapo and was previously an ex chicken farmer
4 D Day
5 The German invasion of Russia in 1942
6 Aircraft Carrier
7 The Desert Fox
8 USS Missouri
9 The V1 Flying Bomb first used in 1944
10 A shelter from German bombs you could sleep under, which doubled up as a table, to be kept indoors.
11. The Short Sunderland.
12 Yamato (And her sister ship Musashi)
13 He used to broadcast German propaganda over the radio into the UK....His name was William Joyce and
he was American/Irish. "This is Germany calling..This is Germany calling"
14 Austria
15 Russia
16 Juno Sword Omaha Utah Gold
17 One of the famous Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
18 The trade name for the tablets dropped into the gas chambers in the German concentration camps.
(Hydrogen cyanide/Prussic acid)
19 Barnes Wallis (The inventor of the famous bouncing bomb used in the raids)
20 It was the name on the front of the Boeing B29 Superfortress which dropped the first Atom bomb on
Hiroshima on 6th August 1945. (Enola Gay was the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets)
Edited by Wacky Racer on Monday 31st October 19:19
k off my thread....Not really questions about WW2 though, are they ? You've missed
- how did Hitler take over the German political process and become dictator
- how was the German military able to re-arm despite the WW1 treaties
- why did Hitler decide to invade Russia
- did the Japanese have a valid point about western colonial oppression and the restriction of access to regional commodities
etc etc
- how did Hitler take over the German political process and become dictator
- how was the German military able to re-arm despite the WW1 treaties
- why did Hitler decide to invade Russia
- did the Japanese have a valid point about western colonial oppression and the restriction of access to regional commodities
etc etc
Newc said:
Not really questions about WW2 though, are they ? You've missed
- how did Hitler take over the German political process and become dictator
- how was the German military able to re-arm despite the WW1 treaties
- why did Hitler decide to invade Russia
- did the Japanese have a valid point about western colonial oppression and the restriction of access to regional commodities
etc etc
Don't be a plonker.- how did Hitler take over the German political process and become dictator
- how was the German military able to re-arm despite the WW1 treaties
- why did Hitler decide to invade Russia
- did the Japanese have a valid point about western colonial oppression and the restriction of access to regional commodities
etc etc
My quiz
My questions.
Start your own quiz/discussion if you want to, but don't spoil mine.
Thank You.
stuartmmcfc said:
18/20
I'd say most of my knowledge was gained from reading Warlord, Commando etc and building Airfix kits as a boy.
Exactly the same here, plus my Dad was a young aircraft mechanic (six weeks training) on HMS Formidable in the war. (He got one fingers blown off in a Kamikaze attack in May 1945, five of his best mates were killed.)I'd say most of my knowledge was gained from reading Warlord, Commando etc and building Airfix kits as a boy.
I reckon 10 is a decent score for the average person who is not particuarly interested in the subject.
My idol was Matt Braddock in the Victor comic....
(Lancaster pilot)stuartmmcfc said:
18/20
I'd say most of my knowledge was gained from reading Warlord, Commando etc and building Airfix kits as a boy.
You are my doppleganger I'd say most of my knowledge was gained from reading Warlord, Commando etc and building Airfix kits as a boy.
Same result and same sources of knowledge - although I still like building kits(As well as reading lots of books on the topic and watching The World at War dozens of times).
Currently working on a 1/72 North American Mustang I (Allison powered version).
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