D-Day 70th Anniversary Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Allied codename for the Battle of Normandy	Operation Overlord	88%
Supreme Allied Commander	General Dwight Eisenhower	73%
German fortifications along the French coast built to repel the invasion	Atlantic Wall	67%
Overall commander of the Allied ground forces during D-Day	General Bernard Montgomery	63%
Landing beach where US forces suffered heavy losses	Omaha Beach	63%
Main Canadian landing beach	Juno Beach	61%
General who supervised the Axis defence of the French coast from the invasion threat	Field Marshal Erwin Rommel	56%
Date and year of D-Day	6th June, 1944	52%
Primary American tank used in the invasion	M4 Sherman	49%
Name of the 1998 Steven Spielberg film based around D-Day	Saving Private Ryan	49%
Eldest son of the 26th US President who was the first senior officer ashore at Utah Beach	Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jnr	41%
City that was identified as a vital objective for troops on Sword and Juno Beaches	Caen	41%
Primary German tank during the invasion	Panzer Mark IV	40%
Commander of the US First Army during D-Day, the "GI's General"	General Omar Bradley	38%
7.62mm American semi-automatic rifle used extensively during the invasion	M1 Garand	34%
Bridge captured during that assault^	Pegasus Bridge	34%
Primary British tank used in the invasion	Churchill MkVII	33%
Amphibious swimming tank that was a variant of the above^	DD "Duplex Drive" Tank	30%
Prominent headland assaulted by the US 2nd Ranger Battalion	Pointe du Hoc	30%
Allied deception plan that involved mobilising fake armies and inflatable tanks	Operation Fortitude	29%
American historian and biographer who wrote "Band of Brothers" and an account of D-Day	Stephen E. Ambrose	29%
11.43mm American submachine gun used extensively during the invasion	Thompson M1A1	29%
Artificial port set up on Gold and Omaha Beaches	Mulberry Harbour	28%
Explosive charge used to force gaps in the barbed wire at Omaha	Bangalore Torpedo	27%
First French City liberated, home of a famous tapestry	Bayeux	27%
Signalling device used by the 101st US Airborne Division to communicate in enemy territory	Cricket	27%
9mm British submachine gun used extensively during the invasion	Sten Gun	27%
English seaside town where the Supreme Allied Commander sited his HQ	Portsmouth	22%
What the letters G.I. stood for	Government Issue/Galvanised Iron	20%
British beach where over 900 Allied troops died during an invasion rehearsal	Slapton Sands	20%
British officer who led the Glider assault	Major John Howard	18%
Primary transport aircraft of the Airborne Landings	Douglas C-47 Skytrain "Dakota"	17%
Nickname given to the LCVP Landing Craft used in the invasion	Higgins Boat	16%
Characteristic terrain of Western Normandy that hampered US troops as they forged inland	Bocage	15%
Strategic peninsular that needed to be secured to link the Utah and Omaha invasion enclaves	Cotentin Peninsular	15%
Nickname given to the specially modified tanks used by British forces	Hobart's Funnies	13%
American photographer and journalist who landed with the second wave of troops at Omaha Beach	Robert Capa	13%
British senior officer who brought his personal piper with him when he landed at Sword Beach	Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat	12%
Spanish double agent who played a leading role in decieving the Germans about where the invasion would happen	Juan Pujol Garcia "Garbo"	12%
The name of that piper, who marched up Sword Beach playing his bagpipes in the face of enemy fire	Private Bill Millin	11%
Actor who portrayed ^ this officer in "The Longest Day" and was himself part of the real Glider assault	Richard Todd	11%
Overall commander of Allied Naval Operations	Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay	10%
Town on Gold Beach where one of the artificial ports was constructed	Arromanches-les-Bains	10%
Supreme Commander of the German Army in the West (OB West)	Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt	10%
Commander of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in that assault^	Lieutenant Colonel James Rudder	10%
Fortification threatening Sword Beach that was a primary target for the British 9th Parachute Battalion	Merville Gun Battery	10%
French commune above Omaha Beach	Vierville-sur-Mer	10%
First French village liberated on D-Day	Ranville	9%
Deputy Supreme Allied Commander	Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder	7%
US Parachute Regiment CO whose troops defended the town of St Mere Eglise	Colonel Benjamin H Vandervoort	7%
Canadian Star Trek actor who was a Lieutenant and fought at Juno Beach	James Doohan	7%
First Allied soldier to be killed, during the Glider assault	Lieutenant Herbert 'Den' Brotheridge	7%
Operational name of the British Glider assault on the Orne River and Caen Canal	Operation Deadstick	7%
Free French Commando leader who landed his troops at Sword Beach	Captain Philippe Kieffer	6%
Town near Juno Beach liberated by the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada	Bernieres-sur-Mer	5%
Airfield that was a primary capture target of the forces that landed on Juno Beach	Carpiquet Airfield	4%
American writer who landed and saw combat at Utah Beach	J D Salinger	4%
Commander of the main British and Canadian armies during D-Day	General Sir Miles Dempsey	2%
British Royal Navy Light Cruiser that bombarded Gold Beach prior to the landings	HMS Ajax	2%
Royal Navy Beach Master at Juno Beach	Captain Colin Maud	1%
First American soldier to come ashore from a landing craft on D-Day	Captain Leonard T. Schroeder	1%

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