History Quiz

In the 1924 United States Army Air Service aircraft designation system, which gave us codes such as B-17 for the Flying Fortress or P-51 for the Mustang, what did the “Z” prefix mean?

Can you identify this British warplane, flown in World War II by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy?

SYGSALY (or “Green Hornet”) was an Allied secure speech system used for top-level communications. The first American terminal was built for President Roosevelt and was located in the Pentagon. The first European terminal was built for Winston Churchill. Where was it located?

Who was the last prime minister of the Third French Republic, which ended with the fall of France to Nazi Germany?

V-mail, or Victory Mail, was an American system to allow soldiers to send letters home quickly during World War II. What technology did it utilize?

The Anschluss, the German annexation of Austria, went much easier than Hitler had hoped. What was the unofficial nickname for the operation in which German troops entered and took over the country?

What was the name of the international (but predominantly Australian) Allied special forces unit that operated behind Japanese lines in Southeast Asia during World War II?

What was special about the Topfmine, a type of German mine used in World War II?

Which World War II belligerent nation had a destroyer class named after a mythological creature, with 6 ships in the class, each named after mythological creatures or pagan gods?

In April 1943, British General Bernard Law Montgomery won a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber on a bet he made with Eisenhower’s chief of staff. What happened to the plane in the end?