World War II Trivia Quiz - Gary Kidney, Author

World War II

See how much history you know!

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What was the last major batle of World War II?

Leyte Gulf

Okinawa

Berlin

Invasion of Manchuria

The Bulge

2 / 25

How many different colors where the badges found in Concentration Camps?

3 / 25

What city was the "City of Spies" during World War II?

Lisbon

Geneva

Stockholm

Honolulu

Berlin

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What was the first concentration camp?

Sachsenhausen

Buchenwald

Dachau

Flossenburg

Mauthausen

Ravensbruck

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What World War II action is known as "the bloodiest battle in history?"

The Battle of Berlin

The Battle of Stalingrad

The Siege of Leningrad

The Battle of Kiev

The Rape of Nanking

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What country lost the move lives (military and civilian) during World War II?

United States

Germany

Japan

China

Soviet Union

United Kingdom

7 / 25

In what year was the first battle or skirmish that direcly led to World War II?

1941

1939

1938

1936

1931

1933

1923

8 / 25

What was the German name for the Battle of the Bulge?

Fall Weiß

Weserübung

Wacht am Rhein

Seelöwe

9 / 25

What German military leader lost his son when the son's U-boat was sunk by escorts of Convoy SC-130 on 19 May 1943?

Admiral Karl Dönitz

Wilhelm Keitel

Alfred Jodl

Erich von Manstein

Hermann Göring

10 / 25

On What Pacific island is Mt. Suribachi?

Guadalcanal

Tulagi

Okinawa

Iwo Jima

Midway

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The “Heiwa no tou” peace tower honors those who lost lives under what circumstances?

The atomic bomb in Hiroshima

The rape of Nanking

Kempei Tai, a Japanese POW camp

Okinawa mass suicides

The Bataan Death March

12 / 25

Entartete Musik was loved by what counter-culture group?

Bolsheviks

The Decca music label

Swing Kids

Concentration camp Jews

Burakumin social outcasts

13 / 25

What was the name of the Japanese code of honor, loyalty, and bravery?

Samurai

Bushido

Shinto

Soka Gakkai Buddhism

Shotokan

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Where was the only land battle between US and Japanese forces which was fought in the snow?

Kunashiri Island, Japan

Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Seward, Alaska

Attu Island, Alaska

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Members of the Veterans' Guard of Canada had the unusual role of escorting shiploads of these through the jungles of eastern India and western Burma. What were they?

Frogmen (military divers) needed to perform assaults across Burma's rivers

Boatloads of mules

Survivors after the fall of Singapore.

Trucks carrying oil and rubber

Airplane parts for the RAF

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Who has earned the epitath of "the greatest double agent of the Second World War?"

Doll Woman, otherwise known as Velvalee Dickinson

Agent GARBO, otherwise known as Juan Pujol Garcia

Agent Zigzag, otherwise known as Edward Chapman

Ian Fleming of James Bond fame

Morris Berg, who played and coached major league baseball

Julia Child, the famous French chef

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What British battleship was present in Tokyo Bay at the surrender ceremonies to end the war?

HMS King George V, which helped sink the Bismarck

HMS Rodney, which also help sink the Bismarck

HMS Howe, after repair of damage caused by kamikazes

HMS Anson, after liberating Hong Kong

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In what location did the broadcast of a new musical piece steel the citizenry and military to resist?

Leningrad and Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony

Normandy Beaches and Irving Berlin's God Bless America

Stalingrad and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

London and Beethoven's 5th Symphony

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The Japanese recruited Harry Thompson, an American, to spy on the U.S. Navy. What was his mission?

Watch the fleet anchorage in Pearl Harbor and report ship movement, especially aircraft carriers

To vector German U-boats toward convoys leaving Halifax

Board ships in San Diego, dressed an a US Navy yeoman, to gather engineering and gunnery information

Work in the Office of Naval Intelligence to break the Navajo Code Talkers secret comunications code

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Who was Alfred Langbien?

Commander of U-boat U-213 which sunk near the Azores

Son-in-law of Erwin Rommel, who married his illegitimate daughter Gertrud

Commandant of Stalag Luft III, the scene of the "Great Escape"

Part of the Duquesne spy ring rounded up by the FBI in 1939

A Nazi spy who came to Canada to stay

21 / 25

Who wrote the first history book covering World War II?

Winston Churchill with "The Gathering Storm," the first volume of his "The Second World War" series

William L. Shirer with "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Dwight Eisenhower with "Crusade in Europe"

John Costello with "The Pacific War 1941-1945"

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What German film was shown to the soldiers in training for the death squads (Einsatzgruppen)?

Der ewige Jude (English: The Eternal Jew)

Die Rothschilds (English: The Rothschilds)

Leinen für Irland (Englih: Linen for Ireland)

Jud Suss (English: Jew Suss)

Der große Diktator (English: The Great Dictator)

23 / 25

Who sang "Lili Marleen" as heard on Radio Belgrade every night at 9:57 PM?

Marlene Dietrich

Anne Shelton

Lale Anderson

Connie Frances

Zarah Leander

24 / 25

What radio personality once called the listeners "my favorite family of boneheads, the fighting G.I.s"

Iva Toguri, better known as Toyko Rose

Mildred Gillars, better known as Axis Sally

William Joyce, better known as Lord Haw-Haw

Bob Hope, in his radio show Command Performance

William Alexander Abbott and Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Abbott and Costello

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Who was the only person in Congress to vote against the Declaration of War against Japan?

None, the declaration passed unanimously

Hamilton Fish III, congressman from New York

Jeannette Rankin, congress woman from Montana

Andrew Jackson Houston, Senator from Texas and son of Sam Houston

Gerald Nye, a noted America Firster and Senator from North Dakota

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