History Quiz

Name: Band of Brothers Tour®
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Since World War II, the word "chalk" has been used to describe a group of paratroopers who deploy from the same plane. What's the origin of the nickname?

Each group was given chalk marks in a different color. Aircraft and soldiers were marked with numbers in chalk so everyone could board the right plane. The group broke up a stick of chalk and every man got one as a lucky charm. It was a joke, similar to the modern one about Marines eating crayons.

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Can you identify this World War II-era British tank?

Covenanter Crusader Comet Cromwell

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What did William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's cousin, have to do in order to serve in the U.S. Navy against Nazi Germany?

Renounce his foreign citizenship Publicly denounce Adolf Hitler Write a letter to President Roosevelt asking for special permission Make an intelligence report on Adolf Hitler

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What destroyed the famous medieval hilltop abbey of Monte Cassino during the Italian Campaign in World War II?

the abbey's German defenders to prevent it from falling into Allied hands British artillery shelling an American bombing raid Polish sappers

National World War II Museum

Nazi Germany developed upward-pointing aircraft guns that allowed their planes to shoot at Allied bombers from straight below. The name of this weapon system translates into English as what?

"Jazz music" "Blues music" "Drumroll" "Hunting horn"

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Which one of these statements about the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Berlin is true?

It was the first Olympics boycotted by the Soviet Union. It was the first Olympics to have live TV coverage. It was the first Olympics to use start pistols. It was the first Olympics where a black athlete won a gold medal.

National Archives and Records Administration

This type of bunker with a distinctive round hatch at the top was named after which North African city?

Tobruk Tripoli Tunis El-Alamein

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Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was apprehended by the Soviets in which city?

Warsaw Krakow Prague Budapest

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What was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference, held on January 20, 1942, in a Berlin suburb?

Planning submarine warfare against the United States, which had recently entered the war Ensuring the co-operation of Nazi administrative departments in the extermination of Jews Discussing the distribution of German forces in North Africa, Greece and the Soviet Union Organizing the use of slave labor in military construction projects

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