| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Site of first atom bomb explosion | Hiroshima | 88%
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| HQ of US Pacific Navy, bombed Dec. 1941 | Pearl Harbor | 73%
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| Spanish dictator, 1939-75 | Francisco Franco | 72%
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| The Chinese city "raped" in 1937-8 | Nanking | 69%
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| Stalingrad was on this river | Volga | 69%
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| The last stepping stone to Japan, spring 1945 | Okinawa | 65%
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| French border defensives on German border | Maginot Line | 63%
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| Crimean conference | Yalta | 63%
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| Famous British fighter plane | Spitfire | 60%
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| Conflict between Finland and USSR | Winter War | 60%
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| Pearl Harbor battleship memorial | USS Arizona | 57%
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| Leader of the Nationalistic Chinese | Chiang Kai-Shek | 48%
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| Where Monty threw back Rommel | El Alamein | 48%
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| Russian head general who captured Berlin | Georgi Zhukov | 46%
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| Turning point in the Solomon Islands | Guadalcanal | 45%
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| German "living space" to the east | Lebensraum | 39%
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| Norwegian leader who collaborated with Hitler | Vidkun Quisling | 33%
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| First aid raid on Japan, early 1942 | Doolitte Raid | 32%
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| Where the ABDA fleet was smashed off Indonesia | Java Sea | 31%
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| Capital of China's Shaanxi province | Xi'an | 30%
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| Belgian city that 101st Airborne held | Bastogne | 27%
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| Bloody atoll in the Gilbert Islands | Tarawa | 16%
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| Russian operation to surround Paulus's 6th Army | Uranus | 13%
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| Overall leader of the IJN | Isoroku Yamamoto | 11%
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| Manstein counterattacked here in Russia, 1943 | Kharkov | 9%
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| Japanese foward base located in New Britain | Rabaul | 8%
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