OT - WWII quiz

[Froonp]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
102) What was the first Japanese ship sunk by the US Navy during the war?

I suppose that the minisubs sunk on 7 December at Pearl Harbor don't count.

So I think this is one of the warships that tried the first invasion of Wake, in December 1941, but I can't remember which it is. I wonder suspect it is a light cruiser, sunk by bomb equipped Wildcats from the VMF squadron on the island.

For some reason they didn't count the mini-subs. Not sure why that is. It was in December of 1941 but not at Wake Island.

Good Hunting.

MR

Ah, Wake Island don't count because it was the USMC, not the USN ?

I searched for it to know if I was right, and the first Japanese ship sunk by the US forces was the DD Hayate on 11 December at Wake Island, but it was the USMC not USN.

[ItBurns]

I still think Alphonse Georges is the most rediculous name for have a first as a last but maybe he doesn't count as a famous general.

111 - was this Linz? I know he planned a lot of building around his home town.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

Here is another set of questions for you students of WWII history:

101) Why did American torpedoes fail in the first part of the submarine campaign?

Several reasons. As allready mentioned, faulty detonators, but also;
-Its actual warhead was heavier than the test-heads used at trials. This caused a problem with the running depth of the torps.
-The magnetic exploder was designed for the Northern half of the globe, and did not work properly around the equator.

105) There were two pieces of equipment the Germans called Goliath. Can you name them both?

-unmanned miniature remote controlled tank filled with explosives
-radio transmitter for the submariens during the second half of the war

122) What was the Japanese Destroyer Amagiri famous for?

Was not she the ship that rammed the PT boat on which J.F.Kennedy served?

123) What city was to be given the new name of Germania, by Hitler, after it had been modernized?

Berlin

[marcuswatney]

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
102) What was the first Japanese ship sunk by the US Navy during the war?

I suppose that the minisubs sunk on 7 December at Pearl Harbor don't count.

For some reason they didn't count the mini-subs. Not sure why that is. It was in December of 1941 but not at Wake Island.

Good Hunting.

MR

"During the war". The mini-subs were sunk before the war, as the Japanese hadn't actually attacked the US at that time. That's why they don't count.

Now here's a question I pose: Where were the first shots of the Pacific War fired?

[marcuswatney]

[font="times new roman"]Ten more questions to stretch the mind...[/font]
[font="times new roman"][/font] 
[font="times new roman"]1.  Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2.  Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3.  What did Cromwell mean?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4.  Why did Hitler promote von Paulus to Field Marshal?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5.  On the outbreak of war in 1939, which British minister held the same post as he had done during the First World War, and what post was it?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6.  The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.  How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8.  Who liberated Copenhagen?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9.  Who ducks when the Americans bomb?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10.  What was the primary use of condoms in the war?[/font]

 

[composer99]

For Marcus' questions:
 
4 - The promotion was meant to stiffen his resistance while trapped with 6th Army in the Stalingrad pocket (per Hitler, no German Field Marshal in history had yet surrendered to the enemy; clearly Paulus was meant to follow in that vein).
 
5 - Winston Churchill, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty

[micheljq]

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

[font="times new roman"]3.  What did Cromwell mean?[/font]

I am thinking of Oliver Cromwell, a very known figure of England's history.

[OzHawkeye2]

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

[font="times new roman"]Ten more questions to stretch the mind...[/font]
[font="times new roman"][/font] 
[font="times new roman"]1.  Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2.  Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3.  What did Cromwell mean?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4.  Why did Hitler promote von Paulus to Field Marshal?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5.  On the outbreak of war in 1939, which British minister held the same post as he had done during the First World War, and what post was it?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6.  The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.  How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8.  Who liberated Copenhagen?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9.  Who ducks when the Americans bomb?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10.  What was the primary use of condoms in the war?[/font]

Tough question in some of these polls, I'd have to google most of them..lol. The ones I can do without that are below:

2. Ok, I can't remember the name, and I may be wrong anyway, but on Okinowa (sp?) the US commander was killed when observing the front lines. I was pretty sure he was the highest ranking US officer killed in combat. No name without googling him however.
3. Cromwell was the code word used by the British to warn of imminent German invasion.
5. Churchill was First Lord of the Admirality then, as he was in WWI.

Late Edit: Bah! Can't believe I missed 4. Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal towards the end of the battle of Stalingrad as Hitler hoped it would prevent him from surrendering (no German FM had done that up till then). Funny enough, Paulus surrendered anyway, and went on to become a Soviet propagandist trying to convince German troops thereafter to do likewise.

[Shannon V. OKeets]

ORIGINAL: OzHawkeye

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

[font="times new roman"]Ten more questions to stretch the mind...[/font]
[font="times new roman"][/font] 
[font="times new roman"]1.  Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2.  Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]3.  What did Cromwell mean?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]4.  Why did Hitler promote von Paulus to Field Marshal?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]5.  On the outbreak of war in 1939, which British minister held the same post as he had done during the First World War, and what post was it?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]6.  The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.  How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8.  Who liberated Copenhagen?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9.  Who ducks when the Americans bomb?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10.  What was the primary use of condoms in the war?[/font]

Tough question in some of these polls, I'd have to google most of them..lol. The ones I can do without that are below:

2. Ok, I can't remember the name, and I may be wrong anyway, but on Okinowa (sp?) the US commander was killed when observing the front lines. I was pretty sure he was the highest ranking US officer killed in combat. No name without googling him however.
3. Cromwell was the code word used by the British to warn of imminent German invasion.
5. Churchill was First Lord of the Admirality then, as he was in WWI.

2 - I believe it was a US general in Normandy who was killed by Allied strategic bombers in the preliminary trials of using carpet bombing. But I do not remember his name.

[Szilard]

ORIGINAL: marcuswatney

[font="times new roman"]Ten more questions to stretch the mind...[/font]
[font="times new roman"][/font] 
[font="times new roman"]1.  Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]2.  Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?[/font]

US head of army, whatever the correct title is. Name something like McNair?

[font="times new roman"]3.  What did Cromwell mean?[/font]

I suppose you don't mean the tank? Was it the code for alerting UK defenses to an invasion?

[font="times new roman"]4.  Why did Hitler promote von Paulus to Field Marshal?[/font]

So he'd commit suicide rather than surrender, or because no German field marshal had ever surrendered, or something like that.

[font="times new roman"]5.  On the outbreak of war in 1939, which British minister held the same post as he had done during the First World War, and what post was it?[/font]

Churchill, First Lord of Admiralty

[font="times new roman"]6.  The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]7.  How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]8.  Who liberated Copenhagen?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]9.  Who ducks when the Americans bomb?[/font]
[font="times new roman"]10.  What was the primary use of condoms in the war?[/font]

Covering rifle muzzles against rain, mud etc?

[paulderynck]

ORIGINAL: Froonp

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

ORIGINAL: Froonp

Who said, on December 1942 :

"The Italian navigator has landed in the new world"

and what does it means ?

I think it refers to the death of Balbo, but I don't know who said it, Churchill again?

Not Churchill, and not about Balbo.

Yeah, but aside from those, I was right on.

[Mad Russian]

1. [font="times new roman"]Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]

When I-26 sank the SS Cynthia Olson 750 miles southwest of Seattle, 1000 miles northeast of Honolulu. The SS Cynthia Olson was the first US ship to be sunk by the Japanese in WWII. This took place before the attack on Pearl Harbor. All 35 crew members were lost.


2. Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair.

Lt. General McNair was killed 25 July 1944, near St Lo, France. The incident took place at the beginning of Operation Cobra. He was killed by Allied carpet bombing when the bombs fell short of their targets and landed on U.S. troops.



3. What did Cromwell mean?

That the British High Command felt the German invasion of England was imminent. It was also a tank.


6. The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?

Was this the Palestine Brigade? To show that the unit was made up of soldiers from Palestine?

Good Hunting.

MR

[Mad Russian]

Here is another set of questions for you students of WWII history:

101) Why did American torpedoes fail in the first part of the submarine campaign?
Faulty detonators. Both contact and magnetic.

102) What was the first Japanese ship sunk by the US Navy during the war?

103) Who was Hans Hilter and where did he fight?

104) What was the Gold Fish Club?

105) There were two pieces of equipment the Germans called Goliath. Can you name them both?
A miniature remote control demolition vehicle and a German radio antenna for sending messages to U-Boats in the Atlantic.

106) Where would you find "Coffin Corner"?

107) Which German city was the target for the RAF's first thousand plane raid? Cologne or Koln.

108) Chips was the name of a German Shepherd dog. What is unique about him?

109) What was the US military talking about when they used the term Sky Pilot? This was a term used for chaplains.

110) He was involved in German military aircraft development and visited Germany many times. He was decorated by Goering with a Nazi medal. He was a strong advocate of U.S. isolationism until Japan attacked the U.S. Was a civilian employee of the United Aircraft Corporation. He was a technical representative to the U.S. Army Air Force. He flew fifty missions in the Pacific and shot down several Japanese aircraft. One was shot down while he flew a P-38 while demonstrating the technique of fuel conservation for long flights. 

Who is this man? Charles Lindbergh.

111) Which city did Hitler intend on making the new capital of the German Reich after the war was over?

112) Who were "Big Bill" and "Little Bill"?

113) Where was the "Little Maginot Line"?

114) Which was the only British destroyer in the German Navy?

115) What was the first enemy airfield captured by U.S. forces in WWII? Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

116) What was the airfield known as "Bull's Eye"?

117) Who were the members of the "Gun Club"? The group of navy officers in the U.S. Navy that were in favor of battleships over carriers.

118) The Ferdinand Magellan was sold to the U.S. Government for one dollar. What was it?

119) What does the term "Far Shore" refer to in Allied terms?

120) Which ship was known as the "Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast"?

121) What was the facility known as the "Virus House" used for?

122) What was the Japanese Destroyer Amagiri famous for? This was the ship that rammed and sank PT-109, on 3 August 1943, in Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands. After Kennedy was elected President the captain of the Amagiri sent him a note apologizing for the incident.

123) What city was to be given the new name of Germania, by Hitler, after it had been modernized? Berlin.

124) Which was the only IJN battleship to survive WWII? Nagato.

125) The USN Iowa class battleships were built to fight the IJN Yamato class battleships. What mistake was made at the time the Iowa class ships were made?

126) Which member number of the Nazi Party was Adolf Hitler? 7.

127) "The One Ship Fleet" was the nickname given to which USN ship?

128) What does the US military casualty abbreviation "PWOP" mean?

129) The term "Rock Happy" meant was to the US Marines?

130) "Roosevelt Sausage" was a nickname given to what?

131) Where was the first place U.S. paratroops were used in WWII?

132) What was the first enemy held territory U.S. troops landed and recaptured in the war?

133) What prompted Japan's decision to attack the United States?

134) Why were there no pictures of President Roosevelt in a wheelchair published during the war?

135) Who signed the surrender for the Soviet Union in Berlin on 8 May 1945?

136) What was the goal of Operation Sledgehammer?

137) The trucks of the "Red Ball Express" were initially unarmed. What caused the Americans to arm them?

138) What was the famous objective of the SS Charlemagne Division during the Battle of Berlin?

139) Which German concentration camp was reserved for women after 1938?

140) Who in Japan gave the order that Japan would surrender?

141) What is a Marston Mat?

142) What three Great Russian Generals did Mussolini feel would defeat Hitler in Russia?

143) Which aircraft was primarily used by the SOE to insert and remove agents into occupied territories?

144) What happened in the Italian port of Bari on 2 December 1943?

145) What U.S. Navy cruiser had the nickname "Sweet Pea"?

146) What did the American code word "Demon" refer to?

147) Which was the only U.S. Navy ship that was present both at the attack on Pearl Harbor and in Tokyo Bay at the surrender signing?

148) What does the slang term "Devildog" refer to?

149) What was special about Annie G. Fox?

150) The Polar Bear emblem was used by both a German and a British military unit can you identify both of them?

Good Hunting.

MR

[Shannon V. OKeets]

147 - I'll guess the Oklahoma. Your question could be worded better. As it stands, it seems as if the ship was thousands of miles long.[;)]

[Shannon V. OKeets]

140 - The emperor.

[oscar72se]

113. Where was "Little Maginot Line"?
Southeast France, in the French Alps

[oscar72se]

128) What does the US military casualty abbreviation "PWOP" mean?
In Joseph Heller's "Catch 22" it meant Pregnant Without Permission [:)]

[marcuswatney]

Good effort so far everybody: now you have only the difficult ones to answer!

ORIGINAL: Mad Russian

1. [font="times new roman"]Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?[/font]

When I-26 sank the SS Cynthia Olson 750 miles southwest of Seattle, 1000 miles northeast of Honolulu. The SS Cynthia Olson was the first US ship to be sunk by the Japanese in WWII. This took place before the attack on Pearl Harbor. All 35 crew members were lost.

No. I worded the question carefully. "Exchanged": The SS Cynthia Olson did not return fire.



2. Who was the highest ranking US officer killed in the war, who killed him and how?

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair.

Lt. General McNair was killed 25 July 1944, near St Lo, France. The incident took place at the beginning of Operation Cobra. He was killed by Allied carpet bombing when the bombs fell short of their targets and landed on U.S. troops.

Yes. The saddest thing about the incident was that McNair was in command of the fake army in Kent pretending to be about to invade Calais, and was so bored he only came over to Normandy to witness the carpet-bombing as a tourist.



3. What did Cromwell mean?

That the British High Command felt the German invasion of England was imminent. It was also a tank.

Correct



6. The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?

Was this the Palestine Brigade? To show that the unit was made up of soldiers from Palestine?

No. Hint: this question is linked to Question 8. The unit served well in Normandy and badly at Arnhem

Good Hunting.

MR

Correct answers given by other forum-members are:

4. To shame von Paulus from surrendering.

5. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, (not First Sea Lord, which is the highest naval rank, while Lords of the Admiralty are politicians);

10. Condoms were put over the muzzles of rifles to keep water out.


So, only the difficult (anti-Google) questions remain:


1. Where were the first shots of the Pacific War exchanged?

6. The letter P inside a square was the shoulder-flash of which British unit, and what was its role?

7. How soon after being wounded in Normandy was a British soldier back in Britain?

8. Who liberated Copenhagen?

9. Who ducks when the Americans bomb?

[marcuswatney]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

140 - The emperor.

"There has been a change in the war situation not necessarily in Japan's favour."

[Mad Russian]

ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets

147 - I'll guess the Oklahoma. Your question could be worded better. As it stands, it seems as if the ship was thousands of miles long.[;)]

I'll try to do better......now about the Oklahoma. She was capsized during the attack on Pearl Harbor. On June 16 1943, the ship was righted using twenty-one land based cranes. Shortly after that she was sold for scrap. May 7, 1947, on the way back to the United States, 500 miles northeast of Hawaii the ship sank. It never fired a single shot during the war with Japan.

Good Hunting.

MR