WWI A-Z

For each letter in the alphabet, guess these answers related to the First World War.

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Letter	Clue	Answer
A	This empire ceased to exist after the war	Austria-Hungary
B	Communist sect that took over Russia in 1917	Bolsheviks
C	Germany and its partners	Central Powers
D	Nearly 1000 French and British soldiers were executed for this crime	Desertion
E	Alliance between the United Kingdom, Russia, and France	Triple Entente
F	His assassination began the war	Franz Ferdinand
G	Failed ANZAC invasion site in Turkey	Gallipoli
H	German field marshal who later became President of Germany	Paul von Hindenburg
I	A global outbreak of this virus started in 1917 in a hospital in France	Influenza
J	1916 naval battle off the coast of Denmark	Battle of Jutland
K	Title of the German emperor	Kaiser
L	British colonel who helped to foment the Arab Revolt	T. E. Lawrence
M	A "miraculous" French victory at this river halted the German advance in 1914	Marne
N	Last czar of Russia	Nicholas II
O	Germany's Middle Eastern ally	Ottoman Empire
P	Top U.S. commander, known as "Black Jack"	Jack Pershing
Q	Chinese city which Japan seized from Germany	Qingdao
R	Family name of the the Red Baron	von Richthofen
S	River that was the site of a major British offensive in 1916	Somme
T	Term for a fortification dug in the ground on the front line	Trench
U	Term for a German submarine	U-boat
V	French city nicknamed "the meatgrinder"	Verdun
W	U.S. President during the war	Woodrow Wilson
X	France's prewar plan to fight off German invasion - it failed disastrously	Plan XVII
Y	Belgian city near where five bloody battles were fought	Ypres
Z	Type of German blimp used to bomb London	Zeppelin

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49 Comments

Level 77

Oct 14, 2019

Battle of Cer -

The Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary is the first battle of theWWI and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.

Fun fact.

Level 80

Oct 15, 2019

Never heard of Pershing before.

Level 91

Oct 15, 2019

Pershing has been used frequently as the nomiker for military equipment - missiles, tanks, rifles. I think that must be where I pulled that bit of knowledge from. My American History classes always started to peter out at the turn of the 20th century, so we never really learned much detail about WWI. I know a lot about WWII, though, because it's been so much more omnipresent in popular culture.

Level ∞

Oct 15, 2019

What's crazy is that over 100,000 U.S. soldiers died in just a few months in 1918. General Pershing didn't learn anything from mistakes made by other countries earlier in the war, and committed his soldiers to foolhardy over-the-top style charges.

Level 78

Nov 11, 2022

The other countries didn't learn from their own mistakes. No one did.

Level 67

Dec 18, 2019

Pershing is one of only two people to be given the U.S. army's highest possible rank, "General of the Armies" (sometimes called "six-star general to indicate its superiority over the five-star general rank, which was held by Eisenhower, among a few others). Pershing is the only person to be awarded the rank while living. The only other person to be awarded General of the Armies was George Washington, and that was a posthumous designation.

Level 79

Dec 18, 2019

When Washington was alive he never was anything higher than a lieutenant general (three-star). He got a fourth, fifth, and sixth star a hundred and twenty years after he died.

Level 75

Dec 18, 2019

That one was easy for me since he was born in my home state of Missouri and we had to study his life in history class.

Level 89

Dec 30, 2019

Look at a picture of him someday. He has the straighest back posture in history. He exemplifies the saying about where West Point men keep the broom.

Level 63

Oct 15, 2019

Zeppelins relied on internal frameworks to hold multiple individual gas cells and to maintain their aerodynamic shape. Blimps have only one large gas bag, no framework and rely on internal gas pressure to maintain their shape.

Both are "dirigibles" but otherwise the terms are not interchangeable.

Level 67

Dec 18, 2019

This is good to know. I had always wondered about this.

Level 76

Jun 28, 2023

That is correct. I'd say the term airship encompasses both blimps and Zeppelins.

Level 73

Oct 15, 2019

Good quiz. Could do with another 30 seconds for me.

Ohh and a little more leeway on the spelling of the "Z" answer.

Level 60

Oct 21, 2019

I filled in 'von Richtenstein' and it got accepted as a good answer.

+15

Level 78

Dec 18, 2019

Then the country between Austria and Switzerland ought to be accepted as 'Lichthofen'.

Level 83

Dec 18, 2019

hmm... i wonder what happened to Plans I to XVI ...

Level 66

Dec 18, 2019

LXIX

Level 70

Dec 18, 2019

CDXX

Level 89

Dec 30, 2019

At least von Schlieffen had the decency to die in 'XIII before his meat grinder plans were implemented.

Level 65

Mar 10, 2022

Outdated. France updated her war plans against Germany every few years starting in the 1870s, to account for population changes and railroad development, as to better plan mobilisation and early operations. Plan XVII has been designed in 1913 adopted in early 1914 to replace the 1909 Plan XVI.

Level 74

Nov 11, 2022

Surely that would eventually result in lower-quality war plans.

Level 58

Dec 18, 2019

I'm not sure that "Failed ANZAC invasion site in Turkey" is a correct description, as Gallipoli was a British and French invasion site as well (there were, in fact, more British and French troops there than ANZAC troops). The whole operation was a failure, not just the ANZAC part of it.

Level 89

Dec 30, 2019

Churchill deserves more blame than the Australian and New Zealand soldiers that's for certain.

Level 46

Dec 18, 2019

Everyone with at least a mild education in the First World War would know that Franz Ferdinand's death merely was the final straw that pushed Austro-Hungary over the edge, making them declare war on Serbia. It would have happened without the assassination, albeit differently.

Level ∞

Dec 18, 2019

Who knows what would have happened if the assassination had never happened? I think there's a very good chance that war would not have occurred.

Level 55

Dec 15, 2022

Given the state of diplomatic affairs, the escalating arms race, jingoistic attitudes among many European states, and a sense of the inevitability of a war among leaders and diplomats almost assuredly some event would have triggered a war.

Level 41

Dec 18, 2019

Got most of these right because of Battlefield 1 campaign and maps lmao

Level 75

Dec 18, 2019

Thank you, Royal Guardsmen for giving me the Red Baron answer. (from Snoopy vs. the Red Baron) My favorite RG song is still Snoopy's Christmas, though. It's one of the Christmas songs I listen to each year.

Level 56

Dec 31, 2019

zeplin as type-in for zeppelin?

Level 71

Mar 26, 2020

Might allow Ieper for Ypres. But reason for this comment is to say that Zeppelins were not blimps. Zeppelins were rigid, blimps are not.

Level 61

Nov 22, 2020

It is for letter Y so would make sense for answer to begin with Y

Level 56

Jul 25, 2020

Another quiz , by I guess an American , your answer for L is not only wrong but YET again it's only time in quiz you used English not British . AND QUESTION YOU SHOULDN'T . was America still England's in 1917 . as Americans tend to say . So Think about that fact that english civil war had deciding battle at Gettysburg ???? Are you understanding the irony

Level 59

Mar 30, 2021

I feel like there must have been a change in the quiz, as this comment has nothing to do with T.E.Lawrence. What was the question before?

Level 57

Jun 28, 2021

It's a bit of a rant but main the point's a fair one (if I'm getting it right). Lawrence was born in Wales. His father was Irish, and his mother anglo-scottish, so calling him English is doubtful at best.

Level 68

Aug 23, 2021

Changed to "British colonel."

Level 78

Sep 21, 2021

I almost started trying random Roman numerals, but decided against it. Should've.

Level 62

Jan 30, 2022

good quiz,though M was Mons but i ended up guessing Marne.

Level 49

Jun 13, 2022

I can’t ever spell Bolsheviks from memory

Level 71

Nov 11, 2022

It might be better to come up with a different "Q" question since Qingdao wasn't spelled that way at the time.

Level 35

Nov 11, 2022

ok,I thought that the daily quiz will be about Poland indenpence day ;((

Level 81

Nov 11, 2022

I would have gone with Plan IX

Level 74

Nov 11, 2022

I suspect I'm not the only one who tried Hitler for the H clue.

Level 90

Nov 11, 2022

I thought about it but I knew that was wrong.

Level 58

Nov 11, 2022

100%

Level 37

Nov 11, 2022

Sure, Plan XVII may have failed.

But on the other side of the coin, Germany's Schlieffen Plan was also a failure

Level 32

Nov 12, 2022

put in more things about Serbia in the quiz

Level 68

Nov 26, 2022

Admittedly, that would make for better representation of all the nations involved (there aren't really questions about Austria-Hungary or Italy either). However, popular knowledge about WWI is mostly centered on the Western Front, at least in the USA, and I'm not sure any answer about Serbia anywhere other than the S slot, like the battle of Cer mentioned at the top of the comments, would have a decent percentage.

Level 60

Sep 18, 2023

Please accept "Defecting" for D?

Level 66

Dec 28, 2023

Defecting and desertion are not the same thing

Desertion - abandoning the military

Defecting - abandoning your country in favor of an opposing one