Stats: Military Quiz # 1 by Ulster (Multiple Choice)

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How many Medals of Honour were awarded to soldiers of the US Seventh Cavalry for the 'Massacre at Wounded Knee' in South Carolina in 1890?	20	0%
First commander of the British Eighth Army. Established it.	Alan Cunningham	0%
A 'Bangalore Torpedo' was a?	An explosive charge used by combat engineers to clear barbed wire and other obstacles by pushing the charge forward by connecting pipes and lessening the risk of being exposed to enemy fire	0%
What or who was a 'gallowglass'?	An Irish mercenary	0%
This Brit officer commissioned Francisco Goya to paint his portrait when the officer was relatively unknown outside the Iberian peninsula and his mother's drawing room. The story goes that when he became famous, he got Goya to add all his medals and trinkets to the uniform in the painting. In disgust, Goya splashed on the gongs and ribbons like Jackson Pollock decorating the outside walls of his outhouse.	Arthur Wellesley	0%
Which one of these German officers was NOT an admiral?	August Niedhardt von Gneisenau	0%
Which WWII heavy bomber could carry the heaviest bomb load?	Avro Lancaster	0%
Which battle gave us the phrase 'Pyrrhic victory'?	Battle of Asculum (279 BC)	0%
After dismissing commander after commander of the 8th Army for their lackadaisical performances against Erwin Rommel, Winnie 'Gallipoli' Churchill appointed this dilettante to command. He did exactly what his predecessors wanted to do. Waited until he had superior numbers in troops and tanks before going onto the offensive. The arrival of a shitload of American Sherman tanks in the nick of time and the fighting prowess of the Australian troops under his command, saved him from military obscurity and made him famous.	Bernard Law Montgomery	0%
Hannibal's greatest victory against the Romans?	Cannae	0%
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain had what designation by the RAF?	Dakota	0%
Allegedly had an affair with his British chauffeur/secretary during WWII.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	0%
US soldier hanged in Melbourne for murdering three women in Melbourne.	Eddie Leonski	0%
Captain of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay. Sacrificed his ship and himself to allow 31 out of 38 ships of the convoy he was escorting to escape the fire of the heavy cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Scheer by heading straight towards it with all guns blazing.	Edward Fegen VC	0%
Who was captain of the Bismarck when it was scuttled?	Ernst Lindemann	0%
Which three warships engaged the Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate in December, 1939?	Exeter, Ajax, Achilles	0%
Jewish traitor who defected to the Romans after surrendering his forces during the 'Great Jewish Revolt'. Wrote 'The Jewish War'. Many historians have commented that he took to his new status like a well-fitting glove.	Flavius Josephus	0%
What aircraft was Manfred von Richthofen flying when he was killed by a bullet from an Australian anti-aircraft machine-gunner?	Fokker Dr.I	0%
The OAS was a dissident army organisation from which country?	France	0%
Which war is most notable for French defeat by the use of the Dreyse 'needle gun'?	Franco-Prussian War	0%
This German field marshal surrendered the remnants of his army in Stalingrad, February 1943.	Friedrich Paulus	0%
Killed in action at the Battle of Lutzen, Germany in 1632. Thirty Years' War.	Gustavus Adolphus	0%
Which of these charming ladies suicided by hanging in September, 1967?	Ilse Koch	0%
'Battle of Plassey' 1757. Where?	India	0%
One of these British upper class twits had a sweater named for him.	James Brudenell	0%
Commanded the US 82nd Airborne Division during 'Operation Market Garden'.	James M. Gavin	0%
Who was the last admiral in the Royal Navy to be executed?	John Byng	0%
The Messerschmitt Me 163 was designated?	Komet	0%
Who commanded the Fallschirmjager throughout WWII?	Kurt Student	0%
The Consolidated B-24 was better known as a?	Liberator	0%
Sixteen of these aircraft ambushed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's inspection tour flight over Bougainville, PNG on 18 April, 1943.	Lockheed P-38 Lightning	0%
Which two opposing commanders fired their last shot and sipped their last brandy at the 'Battle of The Plains of Abraham' in 1759?	Louis-Joseph de Montcalm/James Wolfe	0%
What was considered the best Italian fighter aircraft of WWII?	Macchi C.205 Veltro	0%
Commanded the US 5th Army. Like Douglas MacArthur, he never went anywhere without photographers or cameramen accompanying his coterie. Salerno. Anzio.	Mark W. Clark	0%
Production numbers of the above four fighter aircraft were 34,248/ more than 20,351/ more than 15,000/10,939.	Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Mustang/Zero	0%
In what order did these famous fighter aircraft of WWII first take to the skies?	Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Zero/Mustang	0%
Napoleon Bonaparte dubbed this Marshal of France "The Bravest of the Brave."	Michel Ney	0%
Who requested to give the order to shoot him at his firing squad in France in 1815?	Michel Ney	0%
Which was NOT an Allied beachhead codename at Normandy in June, 1944?	Nebraska	0%
The MiG -15 saw early success in the Korean War. What did the USAAF bring in to equal it?	North American F-86 Sabre	0%
When Anthony McAuliffe was advised to surrender by the Germans at Bastogne in 1944, his laconic reply was?	"Nuts."	0%
Who were Franz Walter Stahlecker, Arthur Nebe, Otto Rasch, Otto Ohlendorf and Ludwig Teichmann?	Original commanders of the five Einsatzgruppen (A to E respectively) operating in Eastern Europe	0%
Which weapon's place of origin was Australia?	Owen gun	0%
'Stormin' ' Norman Schiesskopf raved about this book and claimed he always took along a copy when he was on operations.	'Panzer Battles' - Friedrich von Mellenthin	0%
This panzerkampfwagen (Pz.Kpfw) was considered the backbone of the German army.	Panzer IV	0%
Anna Yegorova.	Pilot	0%
This nabob (1725 - 1774) did one honourable thing in his entire life. He cut his throat when it dawned on him finally that he was nothing but a corrupt maggot that had caused misery and death to British India.	Robert Clive	0%
Commanded the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, 1944.	Roy Urquhart	0%
Who edited (and obviously tidied up) Adolf Hitler's rantings in prose 'Mein Kampf' which the great man dictated in Landsberg prison while serving just over a year of a five-year sentence for gatecrashing a booze-up in Munich in 1923?	Rudolf Hess	0%
What were 'hilfswilliger' (hiwis)?	Russians and other indigenous groups of Eastern Europe who volunteered to fight for Nazi Germany	0%
A battle between Sparta and a combined force of Arcadians, Argives and Messenians in 368 BC was dubbed the 'Tearless Battle' by historians. Why?	Sparta did not suffer a single casualty	0%
The Junkers Ju 87 was popularly known as a?	Stuka	0%
What does the Japanese word 'banzai' literally mean in English?	"Ten thousand years (of life to you)."	0%
Who were the 'Nachthexen' (Night Witches)?	The all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment	0%
Opposing commanders at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6-7 1862?	Ulysses S. Grant/Albert Sidney Johnston	0%
Commanded the 62nd Army at Stalingrad and saw the surrender of German troops defending Berlin in 1945.	Vasily Chuikov	0%
'Uti possidetis' means in layman's terms?	"We can end this war... but what we hold we keep."	0%
Who commanded the three army groups at the beginning of 'Operation Barbarossa'?	Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Fedor von Bock, Gerd von Rundstedt	0%
The De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber's airframe was constructed of?	Wood	0%
'Status quo ante bellum' means in layman's terms?	"You keep what you had before the war and we will keep what we had before the war."	0%

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