| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Chinese Nationalist capital city that was brutally sacked in 1937 | Nanking | 85%
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| German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted | Sudetenland | 69%
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| "Free" international city on the Baltic that Hitler claimed in 1939 | Danzig | 63%
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| Site of consequential 1938 conference | Munich | 56%
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| City on the Volga river where the operation stalled | Stalingrad | 48%
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| Greek island invaded by paratroopers following the evacuation of the mainland by British and ANZAC troops | Crete | 46%
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| Norwegian port controlling the flow of Swedish iron ore where both British and German forces landed | Narvik | 41%
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| U.S. General who led the return to the Philippines | Douglas MacArthur | 37%
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| Site of huge Soviet military base on the Crimean Peninsula | Sevastopol | 37%
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| D-Day beach that was closest to Cherbourg | Utah | 35%
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| Allied General who proposed Operation Market Garden | Bernard Montgomery | 33%
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| Northern Australian city bombed by the Japanese | Darwin | 33%
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| What German army Paulus commanded (at Stalingrad) | 6th | 30%
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| First Allied power to liberate Paris | France | 30%
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| U.S. General who favored a drive on Vienna | George Patton | 30%
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| Name of Admiral who took power in Germany after Hitler's death | Karl Donitz | 28%
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| British battlecruiser sunk while pursuing the Bismarck | HMS Hood | 24%
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| Name of General Montgomery's army at El Alamein | 8th | 22%
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| Site of disastrous Canadian raid in France | Dieppe | 22%
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| General Hitler promoted to Field Marshal in the hopes of him committing suicide (It didn't work) | Friedrich Paulus | 22%
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| U.S. battleship where the Japanese surrender formally took place | USS Missouri | 20%
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| Admiral Nagumo's flagship for the Pearl Harbor raid | Akagi | 19%
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| Name of militia Hitler created in Germany's final months | Volkssturm | 19%
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| Site of amphibious landing designed to bypass the Gustav line (it didn't really work) | Anzio | 17%
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| Name of B-29 that dropped the second atom bomb | Bock's Car | 17%
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| Codename of huge Soviet offensive through Belarus and into Poland in 1944 | Bagration | 15%
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| British carrier sunk by a U-Boat in 1941 | HMS Ark Royal | 15%
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| His replacement | Maxime Weygand | 15%
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| Port where the majority of the French fleet was scuttled in 1942 | Toulon | 15%
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| U.S. carrier sunk in the Battle of Coral Sea | USS Lexington | 15%
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| Fort that was keystone of Belgian defence strategy | Eben Emael | 13%
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| Commander of the RAF's Fighter Command in 1940 | Hugh Dowding | 13%
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| Original French Army Commander in Chief | Maurice Gamelin | 13%
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| Site of British attack on the French navy in 1940 | Mers-El-Kebir | 13%
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| Island of the largest amphibious invasion in history | Sicily | 13%
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| British Admiral in charge of the Mediterranean fleet at Alexandria | A.B.C. Cunningham | 11%
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| Where the majority of the Italian fleet was moved to after the raid | Naples | 11%
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| Town of German breakthrough in the Ardennes in May 1940 | Sedan | 11%
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| U.S. escort carrier that was the first victim of a kamikaze attack | USS St. Lo | 11%
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| The Japanese diversion for the Midway operation was concentrated on this island chain | Aleutians | 9%
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| U.S. battleship that capsized during the raid | USS Oklahoma | 9%
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| Codename of German operation towards the Caucasus | Blue | 7%
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| The Admiral who wanted to invade Formosa instead | Ernest King | 7%
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| Territory occupied by Japan that precipitated US embargoes | French Indochina | 7%
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| Japanese light carrier sunk in the same battle | Shoho | 7%
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| Island Admiral Yamammoto was killed over | Bougainville | 6%
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| British carrier that the Taranto raid was launched from | HMS Illustrious | 6%
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| Town where the Germans first reached the English Channel in 1940 | Abbeville | 4%
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| Last U.S. holdout in the Philippines before surrender | Corregidor | 4%
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| Names of the three original Gloster Gladiator biplanes stationed on Malta | Faith, Hope, and Charity | 2%
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| Site of mass execution of Polish officers by the Soviets | Katyn Wood | 2%
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| Egyptian village where the original Italian advance in North Africa was repelled | Sidi Barrani | 2%
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| First U.S. ship lost to enemy action in WWII (Hint: before Pearl Harbor) | USS Reuben James | 2%
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