| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Shot himself in his bunker in 1945 | Adolf Hitler | 91%
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| Emperor of a losing power | Hirohito | 91%
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| The 'Desert Fox' | Erwin Rommel | 89%
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| Leader who died months before the war's end | Franklin Roosevelt | 89%
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| Il Duce | Benito Mussolini | 88%
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| Supreme Allied Commander | Dwight Eisenhower | 87%
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| Jewish diarist | Anne Frank | 84%
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| Said 'we will fight them on the beaches' | Winston Churchill | 82%
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| Built the bomb to end Japan's war | Robert Oppenheimer | 77%
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| Mistakenly thought he had peace in his time | Neville Chamberlain | 73%
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| Helped crack Enigma intercepts | Alan Turing | 72%
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| Marshalled Soviet forces to victory | Georgy Zhukov | 72%
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| Luftwaffe leader convicted at Nuremburg | Hermann Goring | 68%
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| Fled France in 1940 to lead 'free' forces | Charles de Gaulle | 67%
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| Gestapo chief and Holocaust architect | Heinrich Himmler | 65%
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| Kept his promise to return to the Philippines | Douglas MacArthur | 64%
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| Victor of El Alamein | Bernard Montgomery | 63%
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| 'Old Blood and Guts' | George Patton | 62%
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| Led his country from Chongqinq | Chiang Kai-shek | 55%
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| Ordered "Not one step backwards" in 1942 | Joseph Stalin | 51%
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| Balkan partisan leader | Josip Tito | 51%
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| Hanged in Tokyo in 1948 for war atrocities | Hideki Tojo | 48%
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| Signed an abortive pact with Joachim von Ribbentrop | Vyacheslav Molotov | 48%
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| His Red Army allied with nationalists against Japan | Mao Zedong | 45%
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| Norwegian Nazi underling | Vidkun Quisling | 44%
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| WWI general who ran a Nazi-allied government | Philippe Petain | 37%
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| German Reich Chancellor 30 April-1 May 1945 | Joseph Goebbels | 34%
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| Oversaw the Pearl Harbor attack | Isoroku Yamamoto | 33%
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| U-boat chief who ordered German surrender | Karl Donitz | 29%
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| Inspired British forces, singing "We'll meet again" | Vera Lynn | 25%
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| Led Finnish forces in the Winter War | Carl Mannerheim | 23%
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| Defied Hitler by surrendering at Stalingrad | Friedrich Paulus | 23%
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| Satirised military madness in 'Catch-22' | Joseph Heller | 23%
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| Bomber Command chief who destroyed Dresden | Arthur Harris | 22%
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| Accepted Japan's surrender aboard USS Missouri | Chester Nimitz | 22%
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| Propaganda figure for the US war industry | Rosie the Riveter | 22%
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| Existentialist who fought for the French resistance | Albert Camus | 21%
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| Big band leader MIA in 1944 | Glenn Miller | 21%
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| Commander-in-chief of US ground forces on D-Day | Omar Bradley | 21%
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| Organised the US military expansion | George Marshall | 14%
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| Student activist executed for defying Hitler | Sophie Scholl | 11%
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| Formed the Free India Legion to fight the allies | Subhas Chandra Bose | 8%
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| Stalingrad sniper lionised in film | Vasily Zaitsev | 7%
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| Germany's top soldier, later hanged for war crimes | William Keitel | 7%
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| Commander of the Burma Corps | William Slim | 7%
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| The 'Tiger of Malaya' who took Singapore | Tomoyuki Yamashita | 6%
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| His 'Chindit' forces waged guerilla war in Burma | Orde Wingate | 5%
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| Led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising | Mordechai Anielewicz | 3%
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| His 'Life and Fate' showed Soviet people at war | Vasily Grossman | 3%
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| US airforce chief who targeted German oil | Carl Spaatz | 2%
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