The Great World War II Test
1.
How did the Quonset hut get its name?
2.
What was it modeled after?
3. In
World War II, what were replacement depots called by the GIs?
4.
What were the three squadrons that participated in the Ploiesti
raid?
5.
What was the last major U.S. warship sunk in World War II?
6.
True or false. The five Sullivan
brothers went down with their ship.
7. What was the first American aircraft carrier to be sunk in World
War II?
8.
Who actually sunk her?
9.
What do the letters for the personnel carrier DUKW stand for?
10. Where was the
Russian T-34 tank designed?
11. What were the
"screaming meemies?"
12. What was the
first European city to be liberated in World War II, and by whom?
13. On whose grave
marker is inscribed, "At This Spot the 77th Infantry Division Lost a
Buddy. [FILL IN NAME]. 18 April
1945."?
14. What was the GIs
reply to the British saying, "The trouble with you Yanks is that you're
overpaid, oversexed, and over here."?
15. What did the
letters "WOW" stand for?
16. What was the
first U.S. all-black division formed in World War II?
17. Who was
"Rosie the Riveter" named after?
18. What was the name
of the first liberty ship launched?
19. What was the name
of the last liberty ship launched?
20. What company had
the largest tank factory in the U.S.?
21. How many tanks
were produced at this factory?
22. Who was the first
Allied soldier killed in action on D-Day?
23. Who were the
first three U.S. generals to land in Normandy?
24. What was the
Japanese signal to put Operational Order Number 1 into effect?
25. What was
"Axis Sally's" real name?
26. Where was she
from?
27. What did the GIs
call her?
28. What happened to
her after the war?
29. What breed of dog
did Eisenhower get in early 1944?
30. What was its
name?
31. What was it named
after?
32. How much did
Eisenhower smoke?
33. What did the term
"FLAK" come from?
34. What U.S. Navy
submarine sank the most Japanese tonnage (100,231 tons) of any
U.S. submarine in
World War II?
35. What Hollywood
actor served as communications officer on the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Lake
Champlain in the closing days of the war.
36. What aircraft
carrier was nicknamed "the Blue Ghost?"
37. Who coined the
term "The Longest Day" for D-Day?
38. What was
"Mary Q?"
39. What was the only
American college to lose its entire 1940-1941 eleven-man football team
in World War II?
40. What was the
first commodity to be rationed by the U.S. in World War II?
41. What was
"Pink Lady?"
42. What was
"Roosevelt Sausage?"
43. What slogan was
made famous by Reader's Digest magazine and used in the 1942 movie
Wake Island?
44. Who did President
Gerald Ford pardon on his last day in office on January 19, 1977?
45. Who is the only
person ever to receive two Oscars for the same role?
46. Who invented the
amphibious D.U.K.W.?
47. What did
"NATO" stand for in World War II?
48. How many nations
made up the Allies in World War II?
49. What was an
"Accolade Certificate?"
50. What singer was
voted most popular by GIs overseas during World War II?
51. What was
"Admiral Q?"
52. What did U.S.
Airborne troops have that no other parachute troops in the world had?
53. What was
"Allied V-2?"
54. What was the
"Aluminum Trail?"
55. What was the
Amagiri?
56. What was known as
the "Battle of Flowers?"
57. What was
"Ashcan?"
58.
What was Atlantico?
59. Where, and on
what date, and under whose command was the U.S. Eighth Air Force activated?
60.
Which U.S. Division was the first of all Allied units to set foot on German
soil and to penetrate the Siegfried Line?
61. What were
"Married Companies?" (long
answer)
62.
Who told General George C. Marshall, "The people of China, of the
Philippines, of the Dutch East Indies will be watching us. They may excuse failure but they will not
excuse abandonment."?
63. What was
"L" and where was it located?
64.
What was the name of the song written by Irving Berlin for the U.S. Navy Relief
and introduced by Kate Smith in 1942?
65. What was the
"FFI"?
66. What was a
"limpet"?
67.
Emperor Hirohito would often read what American magazine while in his air raid
shelter in Tokyo?
68. Who was Nazi
party member number 8672?
69. What was the
"Magic Carpet Fleet?"
70. What cartoon
character was classified 4F, unfit for military service, for faulty vision?
71.
What were the four freedoms President Franklin D. Roosevelt listed in his State
of the Union speech on January 6, 1941?
72. What was the name
of FDR's private railroad car and how much did he pay for it?
73. What was
"klim?"
74. What were the
five neutral European countries during World War II?
75. What was called
the "Achilles Heel" of the American defense in World War II?
76. Who was the only
German woman to receive the Iron Cross First Class in World War II?
77. What two Nazi war
criminals repented their crimes before their deaths?
78. What was
"Washing Machine Charlie?"
Who said....?:
1.
"Once war is forced on us, there is no alternative than to apply
every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory---not prolonged indecision."
2.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat
it."
3.
"If we have the power, we'll never give it up again unless we're
carried out of our offices as corpses."
4.
"I have seen war....I hate war."
5.
"I saw my enemies at Munich, and they are worms."
6.
"Hit hard, hit fast, hit often."
7.
"If a man starts a war, he must have the nerve to bear the
consequences."
8.
"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb
bastard die for his country."
9. "We proved that the antidote to racism is excellence in
performance."
10. "[Roosevelt] lied us into war because
he did not have the political courage to lead us into it."