World War I Quiz

Try to name these people, places and things from the first World War.

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First submitted	May 17, 2013
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Hint	Answer
Name for Germany and its allies	The Central Powers
Major allies of Germany	Austria-Hungary
	Ottoman Empire
	Bulgaria
Archduke whose assassination started the conflict	Franz Ferdinand
City in which the above took place	Sarajevo
Treaty that officially ended the war against Germany	Treaty of Versailles
Deadly battles on the Western Front in 1916	Battle of Verdun
Deadly battles on the Western Front in 1916	Battle of the Somme
German proposal for Mexico to invade the U.S.	Zimmermann Telegram
Yellow-brown chemical weapon	Mustard Gas
Area between the trenches	No Man's Land
Name for November 11, 1918	Armistice Day

Hint	Answer
Pandemic that started in 1918	Spanish Flu
Widespread medical condition caused by damp feet	Trench Foot
Prime Ministers of the U.K.	H. H. Asquith
Prime Ministers of the U.K.	David Lloyd George
Kaiser of Germany	Wilhelm II
Tsar of Russia	Nicholas II
President of the U.S.	Woodrow Wilson
Prime Minister of France	Georges Clemenceau
Another name for WWI	The Great War
Yet another name for WWI	The War to End All Wars
Unofficial ceasefire in late 1914	Christmas Truce
German airships which bombed the U.K.	Zeppelins
Turkish peninsula which ANZAC troops tried to capture	Gallipoli

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61 Comments

+10

Level 86

Jun 6, 2013

Kept putting in Clemenceau and wondering why the name didn't work. Realized it was president and not prime minister. Sometimes it helps to read the question. Great quiz!

+11

Level 81

Jul 19, 2013

I was also thinking of Clemenceau though I couldn't remember his name exactly, in spite of doing a research project on him in 9th grade. Still, got most of these right. The taunt on the front page was wrong!

Level 81

Jul 16, 2016

Happy to report 3 years later I did much much better. Only missed trench foot for a score of 25/26.

Level 81

Nov 12, 2016

and a few months later easily got them all. Hooray for learning.

+10

Level 65

Aug 7, 2016

Yes, the question about France should be about Clemenceau as PM because he was really the one in control of France during the later stages of the war. I have not made an extensive study of the presidency vs. the prime minister under the French 3rd Republic, or whether the presidency became more powerful under De Gaulle and the French 5th Republic, but I DO know that in WWI, it was the Tiger of France who was calling the shots when the last shots were fired.

Level 85

Nov 11, 2016

President certainly became more powerful in the 5th republic, but I don't know how it worked in the 3rd.

Level 81

Nov 12, 2016

They both show up on my World Leaders of the World Wars quiz.

Level 69

Oct 19, 2018

Yep, i’d never heard of Poincare but just thought Clemenceau ran France during WW1

Level ∞

Nov 13, 2020

This has been changed. I didn't realize that the Prime Minister was the most important official in France back then.

Level 75

Nov 11, 2021

Not to pile on--okay, I'm piling on--but in all of the photos of the Allied leaders at Versailles it was Clemenceau, not Poincare, I the picture. See, e.g., https://www.loc.gov/item/2016646069/.

Level 71

Nov 11, 2023

I get that for the purposes of this quiz, Clemenceau should probably be the correct answer, but it's still a little bit weird, since he only became Prime minister in November 1917, when the war was already weeeell under way! Other French Prime ministers during WWI are René Viviani (June 1914 - October 1915), Aristide Briand (October 1915 - March 1917), Alexandre Ribot (March - September 1917) and Paul Painlevé (September - November 1917).

Maybe you could clarify that you're looking for the French Prime Minister *at the end of the war*?

Level 71

Nov 11, 2023

Of those, at least Aristide Briand is pretty famous (arguably more so than Asquith...) - he played a major role in the post-war peace movement and in the League of Nations, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's probably impractical to add Briand to the quiz but, in that case, and for consistency, I think Asquith should be removed.

Level 71

Nov 11, 2023

Also: yes, the power dynamics in France have fundamentally shifted since 1958 and the 5th Republic. The President is now basically omnipotent, and the Prime minister in most cases just a puppet. This was not the case during the 3rd Republic.

By the way, I think it's strange that in English the 3rd-Republic-office is called "Prime minister", when at the time, in France, it was called "President of the council (of ministers)".

Under the current 5th Republic, the office *is* actually called Premier ministre (Prime minister) - showing that it is different enough that French people actually bothered changing the name, so it's weird the same term would be used for both in English.

That's no on you, Quizmaster - it's just strange.

Level 48

Jul 19, 2013

Safe to say I know a lot less about ww1 than ww2.

Level 37

Jun 17, 2021

Everyone does.

Level 71

Nov 11, 2021

I actually find WW1 more interesting personally. I'm not sure I know more about WW1 than WW2, but if I could be an expert on just one of them I'd choose WW1.

Level 43

Jul 19, 2013

The only reason I got Verdun was a George Carlin skit.

Level 51

Jul 19, 2013

How many of us came here because of the provocative remark on the front page, and got most of them right?

Level 63

Jul 20, 2013

Me. 23.

Level 60

Jan 27, 2017

Me too. Turns out I actually know quite a lot about WW1. :)

Level 71

Nov 11, 2021

Same. Funny that Quizmaster hasn't changed the front page blurb in all these years even though there are a lot of quiztakers getting high scores :)

Level 52

Jul 19, 2013

too easy

Level 15

Jul 23, 2013

Whoo I need to brush up on this. Good thing WW1 is our Academic Decathlon topic.

Level 68

Sep 6, 2013

Argghh!! This is, like, the second time I've tried to put "Armistace Day" in!!

Level 68

Nov 11, 2016

Same!

Level 80

Dec 24, 2020

yeah, i wrote armstice

Level 71

Mar 17, 2025

In the same vein I wrote Rememberance day instead of Remembrance

Level 75

Aug 30, 2014

Only scored 14, but this quiz was a good learning experience. Thanks.

Level 75

Jan 25, 2017

Scored 17 this time. I'm a slow learner, but at least I didn't lose any ground.

Level 55

Jan 15, 2016

What about Princip, the man who shot Franz Ferdinand. Or Franz Josef the emperor of the Austria-Hungary Empire.

Level 46

Nov 11, 2016

:( typed Versaille instead of Versailles... oh well, good quiz

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Level 79

Nov 11, 2016

I wonder why there is no Serbia in this quiz?

Level 41

Nov 11, 2016

Level 79

Nov 11, 2016

Nego kako.

Level 92

Nov 16, 2020

I am sad with the fact that this quizes are so western oriented. There was war on Balkans and Eastern front also. By the way, breakthrough of Balkan front was a seal to Allied victory in WW1.

Level 58

Nov 11, 2021

Why no Italy? Why no Japan? Why no lots of other things to do with the war? It's a short quiz, you can't cover everything (although the quiz probably is too west-centric)

Level 70

Nov 11, 2021

Because this isnt WWII

Also Italy and Japan weren't really relevant. If the Italians and Austrians fought twelve battles at the same location we can safely leave them out

source: https://www.jetpunk.com/interesting-facts/147 fact by me

Level 55

Nov 11, 2021

Both Italy and Japan were combatants in the First World War, they didn't just fight in the Second. Both Italy and Japan felt snubbed by the Western Allies, despite being on the winning wide, and this led to a sense of resentment that fed into the political mix on the 1920s and 1930s in their respective countries. Both countries were part of the war, and one of them could easily have had a question about them as much as Serbia deserves.

Level 24

Nov 11, 2021

Izgubili 27% stanovnistva a nas nema.

Level 72

Aug 11, 2017

Could you loosen the spelling a bit for Zeppelin? I remembered it as "zepplin" and had to root around for it.

Level 62

Feb 2, 2019

Got them all with 2:51 remaining at 2:32:39 PM on February 2, 2019, with one pause of about fifteen to twenty seconds as I sat to try and remember France's president's name; it soon came back to me.

Level 55

Sep 7, 2020

Kept writing Tripoli wondering why it wouldn't work ...smh

Level 72

Oct 10, 2020

I hate how Western focuses this quiz is. Not many about the Eastern Front at all. Focus on Germany, France, UK and of course USA as always.

Level 80

Dec 24, 2020

yeah, no mention of galicia or the eastern front at all.

Level 80

Dec 24, 2020

man i would've gotten armistice if i had put the i in there.

Level 68

Nov 11, 2021

Well the front page taunt wasn't exactly right, I do know quite a bit about WW1, but I definitely need to sharpen up. Only got 17.

Level 74

Nov 11, 2021

agreed, would be good to review a bit

Level 74

Nov 11, 2021

Did okay, got 16

Level 67

Nov 11, 2021

I mixed up Ardennes and Verdun and wrote Ardun 🤦🏽‍♂️

Level 71

Nov 11, 2023

And Verdennes?

Level 86

Nov 11, 2021

Though I understand the audience aren't necessarily British/French, I feel like the leaders of both should be more well-known considering how those two countries (and their empires) were the main opponents to the Central Powers.

Level 67

Nov 11, 2021

Thanks for featuring this on Armistice Day. We observed a minute's silence at work today, online (working at home because Covid).

Level 61

Nov 11, 2021

William for Wilhelm?

Level 24

Nov 11, 2021

I had to google how to spell versailles and remembrance

Level 53

Nov 11, 2021

No ypres?

Level 72

Jul 28, 2023

Could Athlete's Foot also be accepted for the Trench Foot question? Per Wikipedia, it is also caused by moisture and was common amongst soldiers in WWI.

Level 61

Sep 29, 2023

Should probably also accept Veterans day for Armistice day, its the name the US uses for November 11

Level 71

Nov 11, 2023

Or Independence Day, as it's known in Angola - commemorating the Portuguese withdrawal in 1975. That would make just as much sense.

Level 78

Nov 11, 2023

I concur. The two are practically synonymous over here.

Level 44

Nov 11, 2023

Happy Armistice day!

Level 56

May 14, 2025

The question about the French leader triggers me. Clemenceau became President of the Council (and not PM, but well, it seems that English is not ready to accept a different name). You asked for both British PM even if one is less known and important than the other one, so... And if you don't want to add Briand, Painlevé and others (what is completely understandable), why don't you just ask about the President of the Republic? That's true that he was less important than the President of the Council during the Third Republic, but I would argue that it was a bit less the case during the Great War and that Poincaré is easily the most well-known President of his regime. And if you really don't want to do so... why don't you just add something to the question so that only Clemenceau can be the answer? Something about the fact that he was also known as "The Tiger" or that he was very active during the negociations of the Paris Peace Conference and particularly the Treaty of Versailles?

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