WW2 Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country invaded by Germany on Sep 1,1939 \| Country that lost the highest % of its prewar population	Poland	95%
Term for Germany's aerial bombardment of the UK in 1940	The Blitz	81%
Italian duce	Benito Mussolini	62%
Russian dictator	Joseph Stalin	62%
German führer	Adolf Hitler	59%
Largest concentration camp \| The deadliest concentration camp	Auschwitz	59%
Term for Japanese Suicide Bombers	Kamikaze	59%
Name of the German air force	Luftwaffe	59%
British Prime Minister after 1940	Winston Churchill	57%
U.S. nuclear program	Manhattan Project	54%
Name for Jun 6, 1944	D-Day	51%
English translation of "panzer"	Tank	51%
Hitler's country of birth	Austria	49%
Term for a German Submarine	U-Boat	49%
Town from where the British evacuated France in 1940	Dunkirk	46%
Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked on a day which will live in infamy	Pearl Harbor	43%
President of the USA before 1944	Franklin D.Roosevelt	41%
President of the USA after 1944	Harry Truman	41%
German word for "lightning war"	Blitzkreig	38%
German encryption machine \| German encryption machine cracked by British & Polish codebreakers	Enigma	38%
Region of France stormed by the Allies on D-Day	Normandy	38%
Japanese Emperor	Hirohito	35%
What V in V-E day stands for	Victory	35%
Supreme Allied commander in Europe	Dwight Eisenhower	32%
First Japanese city hit by an Atomic bomb	Hiroshima	32%
General who said “I shall return”, when forced to leave the Philippines	Douglas MacArthur	30%
German general called “The Desert Fox”	Erwin Rommel	30%
Turning point of the pacific theater	Battle of Midway	27%
German city that was firebombed in Feb 1945 killing 25,000 \| German city which was firebombed on February 13, 1945	Dresden	27%
Luftwaffe commander	Hermann Goring	27%
Dec 7,1941, a date that will live in ...	Infamy	27%
British King	King George VI	27%
Atoll where Japan lost four aircraft carriers in 1942	Midway	27%
2nd Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb	Nagasaki	27%
Hitler's wife	Eva Braun	24%
The dictator of Spain	Francisco Franco	24%
What Nazi leader was in charge of the SS?	Heinrich Himmler	24%
British Prime Minister pre 1940	Neville Chamberlain	24%
Place that General MacArthur promised to return to	Phillippines	24%
Name of 1st atomic bomb	Little Boy	22%
Key strategic island in the Mediterranean which was long besieged by the Nazis but never captured	Malta	22%
Hitler's manifesto	Mein Kampf	22%
City "raped" by Japan in 1937	Nanking	22%
City whose ghetto had 400,000 jews	Warsaw	22%
Nazi master race	Aryan	19%
Turning point of the Eastern Front in Europe	Battle of Stalingrad	19%
German counter-offensive on the Western front in late 1944 \| Germanys Last Stand	Battle of the Bulge	19%
Country invaded by the USSR in the Winter War	Finland	19%
Pacific island where six marines were photographed raising an American flag	Iwo Jima	19%
Name of the German navy	Kriegsmarine	19%
Line of fortresses meant to protect France from Germany	Maginot Line	19%
Former country which unified Germany under its leadership in 1871 and was known for its efficient military	Prussia	19%
Series of defenses that were supposed to protect France from Germany	The Maginot Line	19%
Name of the German army	Wehrmacht	19%
Forest through which Germany invaded France	Ardennes	16%
Leader of China	Chiang Kai-Shek	16%
Crimean city that hosted a conference in 1945	Yalta	16%
American general called “Old Blood and Guts”	George S.Patton	14%
City besieged by Germany between 1941–1944, but never captured	Leningrad	14%
Primary language of Native American code-talkers	Navajo	14%
Bitter Pacific battle of 1945	Okinawa	14%
Which prominent Nazi flew to Scotland in 1940?	Rudolph Hess	14%
Nazi collaborator who led Norway	Vidkun Quisling	14%
Which famous British General stopped Rommel for good	Bernard Montgomery	11%
Nickname of the B-17	Flying Fortress	11%
Most decorated Soviet general	Georgy Zhukov	11%
Japanese Prime Minister	Hideki Tojo	11%
Code name for the Battle of Normandy	Overlord	11%
Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps	The Eagle's Nest	11%
How many Russians were killed in the war	25 Million	8%
Name of 2nd atomic bomb	Fat Man	8%
German word for hunter or light infantry	Jäger	8%
At what place in the USSR was the site of the largest tank battle?	Kursk	8%
Agreement which allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia	Munich Agreement	8%
The Premier of Vichy France was called?	Phillipe Petain	8%
Area which the Germans remilitarized in 1936, breaking their treaty obligations	Rhineland	8%
Nickname for female factory workers in the U.S.	Rosie the Riveter	8%
Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia	The Wolf's Lair	8%
Capital of “independent” France from 1940–1944	Vichy	8%
River on which the battle of Stalingrad was fought	Volga	8%
The capital Japanese ship was called?	Yamato	8%
Group of three countries annexed by the USSR in 1940 and again in 1944	Baltic States	5%
Zeppelins crowded the skies of Britain	Battle of Britain	5%
British codebreaking site	Bletchley Park	5%
Town in Egypt that marked the furthest advance of Rommel's tanks	El Alamein	5%
American political figure who commanded PT-109	John F.Kennedy	5%
Sister ship of the Bismark	Tirpitz	5%
Bloody battle site in the Solomon islands	Guadalcanal	3%
Pact that Germany made with Soviets	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact	3%
What was the code name for the invasion of Italy,1943?	Operation Husky	3%
What were the German divisions in North Africa called?	The Afrika Korps	3%
Roosevelt called America the what?	The arsenal of democracy	3%
Road from Rangoon to Chongqing which was a key supply route for China	Burma Road	0%
1943 US/UK conference site	Quebec	0%
Stalin issued a policy of what on the USSR?	Scorched Earth	0%
German defences on the french border	Siegried line	0%

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