History Quiz

How did the Nazis plan to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with a bomb?

Can you identify this World War II-era German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun?

Hitler had over a dozen “Führer Headquarters” built for his use all over German-conquered territory, but some of them he never used. Which of these was the furthest to the east (regardless of whether he ever visited it)?

Albert Kesselring was one of the prominent German Field Marshals of World War II, who commanded forces in many theaters of the war. Of these four areas, which is the one where he only had a command role because another commander had to be quickly replaced after a security fiasco?

What kind of experimental device did the Germans refer to by the codename düppel?

There are 12 empty American graves in the Commonwealth War Cemetery at Howard Davis Park on the Channel Islands, a place that was under German occupation in World War II. Who was Howard Davis, after whom the park was named?

On July 19, 1940, Hitler made a speech including these lines: “[A certain national leader], or perhaps others, for once believe me when I predict a great empire will be destroyed, an empire that it was never my intention to destroy or even to harm. I do realize that this struggle, if it continues, can end only with the complete annihilation of one or the other of the two adversaries. [He] may believe this will be Germany. I know that it will be [his nation]." What leader and country was he talking about?

How did 2nd Lieutenant Terrel Shane Childers, the first American soldier to be killed in the Iraq War, die?

July 18, 1943 saw the only action between an airship and a submarine in World War II, when the U.S. blimp K-74 encountered the German U-boat U-134. What was the outcome of the battle?

What is the geographical name of the desert basin in which the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb, occurred on July 16, 1945?