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History Quiz

Name: Band of Brothers Tour®
Brand: Beaches of Normandy Tours
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What was the common nickname of the infamous Soviet spy ring that operated in Britain during and (for a while) after World War II?

Southampton Five Bletchley Park Five Cambridge Five Oxford Five

USSR Post

Can you identify this rather quaint-looking World War II-era American aircraft?

Boeing P-26 Peashooter Curtiss P-36 Hawk Bell P-63 Kingcobra Fleetwings BT-12 Sophomore

Edwards Air Force Base

Which one of these positions did Douglas MacArthur NOT hold during or shortly before World War II?

United States Military Advisor to Commonwealth Government the Philippines Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area Commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East Commander of the Far East Command

Naval History and Heritage Command

What allowed the defenders of Leningrad to keep receiving supplies for most of the city’s extended siege?

A nearby lake the besiegers could not control Red Army airdrops The Finnish Army not closing the siege ring from the north An open section of railway to the city’s southeast

RIA Novosti

Which nation was the first to lose a carrier during World War II?

United States United Kingdom Japan Italy

public domain

What was the source of the story that Polish cavalrymen charged German tanks with swords and lances during the German invasion of Poland?

It really happened German propaganda It’s a completely unfounded story A journalist misunderstanding what really happened in a particular battle

alchetron.com

Why did Operation Market Garden have a two-word name?

Market stood for the main thrust down the bridges, Garden for the capture of several V-2 rocket sites Market stood for the airborne, Garden for the land-based component Market stood for the American, Garden for the British component Because it was a joint British-American operation, but the two words had no specific references

National Archives

Polish officer and resistance member Witold Pilecki deliberately let himself be captured and sent to a concentration camp by the Germans just so he could write a report on what was happening there and get it out to the world. Which camp was he sent to?

Auschwitz Dachau Bergen-Belsen Mauthausen

unknown photographer

Which nation’s local Nazi-aligned far right political party used this symbol?

Romania Bulgaria Austria Hungary

Public domain

The 14-Part Message was a long message sent by Tokyo to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull via the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. The message was supposed to be delivered just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, but only arrived hours later. Why?

The Japanese delegation was not allowed to see Hull in time The decoding machine at the embassy was broken The embassy staff took too long decoding and typing the message The car carrying the messengers broke down

Mainichi Shinbun