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Military Quiz # 1 by Ulster (Multiple Choice)
The questions are all over the place like the soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry under Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Try to enjoy, regardless.
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1. Napoleon Bonaparte dubbed this Marshal of France "The Bravest of the Brave."
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Joachim Murat
Michel Ney
Andre Massena
2. Hannibal's greatest victory against the Romans?
Lake Trasimene
Ticinus
Cannae
Trebbia
3. 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.
Harold Alexander
Claude Auchinleck
Louis Mountbatten
Bernard Law Montgomery
4. Who were the 'Nachthexen' (Night Witches)?
They flew over 24,000 missions. Battle of Moscow..
Female partisans who infiltrated German perimeters and slit the throats of sentries
Female snipers who ate lots of carrots and worked at night
The all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment
Female sappers who laid mines after dark
5. Commanded the US 5th Army. Like Douglas MacArthur, he never went anywhere without photographers or cameramen accompanying his coterie. Salerno. Anzio.
Courtney Hodges
Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
Mark W. Clark
Chester W. Nimitz
6. 'Battle of Plassey' 1757. Where?
Bangladesh
Afghanistan
India
Sri Lanka
7. Which WWII heavy bomber could carry the heaviest bomb load?
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Handley Page Halifax
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Avro Lancaster
8. What were 'hilfswilliger' (hiwis)?
There were 600,000 hiwis in 1944.
Elite Cossack units serving in the Crimea
Kiwi soldiers who couldn't pronounce the letter 'k'
Polish slave labourers in the Warsaw ghetto
Russians and other indigenous groups of Eastern Europe who volunteered to fight for Nazi Germany
9. Allegedly had an affair with his British chauffeur/secretary during WWII.
George S. Patton
Bernard Law Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson
10. Commanded the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, 1944.
Roy Urquhart
Michael 'Mad Mike' Hoare
Audi Murphy
James M. Gavin
11. Commanded the US 82nd Airborne Division during 'Operation Market Garden'.
James M. Gavin
Maxwell Taylor
Frederick ''Boy' Browning
Omar Bradley
12. Killed in action at the Battle of Lutzen, Germany in 1632. Thirty Years' War.
Gustavus Adolphus
Albrecht von Wallenstein
Klemens von Metternich
Cardinal Richelieu
13. 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.
Judah Maccabee (Judas Maccabeus)
Judas Icariot
Flavius Josephus
Jonathan Maccabeus
14. Who commanded the Fallschirmjager throughout WWII?
Josef 'Sepp' Dietrich
Joachim Peiper
Kurt Student
Otto Skorzeny
15. Which battle gave us the phrase 'Pyrrhic victory'?
Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC)
Battle of Plataea (479 BC)
Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
16. A 'Bangalore Torpedo' was a?
Submarine designed in the subcontinent
An anti-tank rifle
Glass bottle filled with mustard gas and thrown at Huguenots after the dissolution of the Edict of Nantes
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
17. Which war is most notable for French defeat by the use of the Dreyse 'needle gun'?
Crimean War
War of the Austrian Succession
Algerian War
Franco-Prussian War
18. When Anthony McAuliffe was advised to surrender by the Germans at Bastogne in 1944, his laconic reply was?
"Horse apples."
"Fava beans."
"Nuts."
"Tofu."
19. Which was NOT an Allied beachhead codename at Normandy in June, 1944?
Sword
Nebraska
Gold
Utah
20. Who requested to give the order to shoot him at his firing squad in France in 1815?
Louis Davout
Michel Ney
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Pierre Laval
21. In what order did these famous fighter aircraft of WWII first take to the skies?
Messerschmitt - 29 May, 1935. Spitfire - 5 March, 1936. Zero - 1 April, 1939. Mustang - 26 October, 1940.
Supermarine Spitfire/Messerschmitt Bf 109/North American P-51 Mustang/Mitsubishi A6M Zero (a.k.a. 'Zeke')
Mustang/Spitfire/Zero/Messerschmitt
Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Zero/Mustang
Spitfire/Zero/Messerschmitt/Mustang
22. Production numbers of the above four fighter aircraft were 34,248/ more than 20,351/ more than 15,000/10,939.
Mustang/Spitfire/Zero/Messerschmitt
Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Mustang/Zero
Mustang/Messerschmitt/Spitfire/Zero
Spitfire/Messerschmitt/Zero/Mustang
23. The OAS was a dissident army organisation from which country?
Chile
Ghana
France
Germany
24. 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 shed no tears.
There was no physical engagement... just a lot of sword-rattling and name-calling
None of the combatants had wives or girlfriends
Sparta did not suffer a single casualty
The coalition did not suffer a single casualty
25. This panzerkampfwagen (Pz.Kpfw) was considered the backbone of the German army.
Tiger I
Panther
Panzer IV
Elefant (Ferdinand)
26. First commander of the British Eighth Army. Established it.
Neil Ritchie
Bernard Montgomery
Alan Cunningham
Claude Auchinleck
27. Opposing commanders at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6-7 1862?
'Stonewall' Jackson/Joseph Hooker
William Tecumseh Sherman/Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ulysses S. Grant/Albert Sidney Johnston
James Longstreet/Philip Sheridan
28. The Consolidated B-24 was better known as a?
Gladiator
Consolidator
Liberator
Terminator
29. What or who was a 'gallowglass'?
A soldier from Nepal
An Irish mercenary
A cabinboy in the Royal Navy
A court martial president who needed a stiff drink after sentencing a soldier to death
30. Who was the last admiral in the Royal Navy to be executed?
Susan Boyle
Jimmy Boyle
John Byng
Horatio Nelson
31. The De Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber's airframe was constructed of?
Aluminium
Tungsten
Wood
Brass
32. 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?
Albert Speer
Hermann Goring
Rudolf Hess
Eva Braun
33. Which two opposing commanders fired their last shot and sipped their last brandy at the 'Battle of The Plains of Abraham' in 1759?
Louis-Nicolas Davout/Louis XIV
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm/James Wolfe
Jacques-Louis David/Louis Braille
Louis Pasteur/Louis Armstrong
34. The Douglas C-47 Skytrain had what designation by the RAF?
Liberator
Skymaster
Dakota
Budd
35. Which one of these German officers was NOT an admiral?
August Niedhardt von Gneisenau was a field marshal. Napoleonic Wars.
Alfred von Tirpitz
August Niedhardt von Gneisenau
Erich Raeder
Hans von Koester
36. One of these British upper class twits had a sweater named for him.
Somerset - raglan sleeve. Brudenell - cardigan. Montagu - sandwich. Grey - Earl Grey tea.
FitzRoy Somerset
James Brudenell
John Montagu
Charles Grey
37. What was considered the best Italian fighter aircraft of WWII?
The Macchi C.205 Veltro. A 'Spaghetti' Messerschmidt Bf 109? 😝
Fiat G.55 Centauro
Macchi C.202 Folgore
Reggiane Re.2005 Sagittario
Macchi C.205 Veltro
38. US soldier hanged in Melbourne for murdering three women in Melbourne.
Eddie Slovik
Eddie Leonski
Samuel 'Champ' Ferguson
Henry Wirz
39. This German field marshal surrendered the remnants of his army in Stalingrad, February 1943.
Erich von Manstein
Walter Model
Friedrich Paulus
Albert Kesselring
40. 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.
Horatio Nelson
John Jervis
Arthur Wellesley
David Beatty
41. The Junkers Ju 87 was popularly known as a?
Dornier
Heinkel
Stuka
Komet
42. What does the Japanese word 'banzai' literally mean in English?
"Death or dishonour."
"Ten thousand years (of life to you)."
"No prisoners."
"A hundred thousand welcomes."
43. Who were Franz Walter Stahlecker, Arthur Nebe, Otto Rasch, Otto Ohlendorf and Ludwig Teichmann?
Stahlecker was fatally wounded by Soviet partisans in 1942. Ohlendorf and Teichmann were hanged for war crimes. Nebe was hanged by his own side for involvement in the 20 July Plot 1944 on 21 March 1945. Otto Rasch died of Parkinson's disease and associated dementia at home.
U-boat commanders
July 20 Plot members
Original commanders of the five Einsatzgruppen (A to E respectively) operating in Eastern Europe
Panzer army commanders
44. Who was captain of the Bismarck when it was scuttled?
Langsdorff shot himself in Buenos Aires after scuttling the Admiral Graf Spee. Gunther Prien commanded U-47 which sank the battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow. Herbert Werner commanded U-415 and U-953 and wrote a best-selling memoir 'Iron Coffins'. Ernst Lindemann went down with his ship.
Hans Langsdorff
Gunther Prien
Ernst Lindemann
Herbert Werner
45. Sixteen of these aircraft ambushed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's inspection tour flight over Bougainville, PNG on 18 April, 1943.
Grumman F6F Hellcat
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
North American P-51 Mustang
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
46. Which of these charming ladies suicided by hanging in September, 1967?
Irma Grese
Jenny-Wanda Barkmann
Ilse Koch
Aileen Wuornos
47. Who commanded the three army groups at the beginning of 'Operation Barbarossa'?
Army Group North - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. Army Group Centre - Fedor von Bock. Army Group South - Gerd von Rundstedt.
Heinz Guderian, Walter Model, Friedrich Paulus
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, Fedor von Bock, Gerd von Rundstedt
Walter von Reichenau, Ferdinand Schorner, Hermann Hoth
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Adolf Heusinger, Gunther von Kluge
48. What aircraft was Manfred von Richthofen flying when he was killed by a bullet from an Australian anti-aircraft machine-gunner?
Sergeant Cedric Popkins of the 24th Machine Gun Company fixed the baron's little, red triplane.
Albatross D.V
Pfalz D.VIII
Fokker Dr.I
SPAD S.XIII
49. Anna Yegorova.
Anna Yegorova flew 277 sorties for the Soviet Air Force. Flew combat missions in a Ilyushin IL- 2 Sturmovik (flying tank). She was shot down and captured by the Germans. She did not get her Hero of the Soviet Union award until 1965.
Sniper
Pilot
Partisan
NKVD
50. 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.
Leonard Cheshire - RAF. Albert Jacka - 2nd AIF. Edward Fegen - RN (VC posthumous). John Edmondson - 2nd AIF (VC posthumous).
Leonard Cheshire VC
Albert Jacka VC
Edward Fegen VC
John Edmondson VC
51. Which weapon's place of origin was Australia?
Breda 30 - Italy. Owen gun - Australia. BAR (M1918) - USA. Bren gun - Czechoslovakia/UK.
Breda 30
Owen gun
BAR (M1918)
Bren gun
52. 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?
15
12
8
20
53. Which three warships engaged the Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate in December, 1939?
Admiral Graf Spee - heavy cruiser (pocket battleship). HMS Exeter - heavy cruiser. HMS Ajax - light cruiser. HMNZS Achilles - light cruiser.
Royal Oak, Hood, Prince of Wales
Ark Royal, Barham, Rodney
Exeter, Ajax, Achilles
King George V, Duke of York, Iron Duke
54. '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."
"Let us unite our empires via the marriage bed."
"If this war continues... neither of our nations will have a kitchen garden to stand on."
"I came, I saw, I conquered."
55. 'Uti possidetis' means in layman's terms?
"What possible use is this war to either of our nations?"
"We can end this war... but what we hold we keep."
"Is it possible that war is the ultimate answer to life and everything in it?"
"We have run out of bullets... and we hope that you have too."
56. 'Stormin' ' Norman Schiesskopf raved about this book and claimed he always took along a copy when he was on operations.
'Infantry Attacks' - Erwin Rommel
'The Art of War' - Sun Tzu
'Panzer Battles' - Friedrich von Mellenthin
'On War' - Carl von Clausewitz
57. 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.
Clive James - Famous for being ... ? Like a lot of Australian celebrities, he never shut the fuck up about being an Australian although he spent almost his entire life in the UK. Paul Hogan, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Germaine Greer... 🤔🥱. Clive Lloyd - Highly regarded cricket player. Captained the West Indies. Born in Guyana. Clive Caldwell - Australia's top fighter ace in WWII. Gained the nickname 'Killer' for his habit of ventilating enemy pilots and aircrew if it looked like their parachutes would take them back over their own lines.
Clive James
Clive Lloyd
Robert Clive
Clive Caldwell
58. The Messerschmitt Me 163 was designated?
Stuka
Condor
Komet
Wolf
59. Commanded the 62nd Army at Stalingrad and saw the surrender of German troops defending Berlin in 1945.
Georgy Zhukov
Semyon Timoshenko
Vasily Chuikov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
60. The MiG -15 saw early success in the Korean War. What did the USAAF bring in to equal it?
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom
North American F-86 Sabre
Hawker Siddeley Harrier
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