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MILITARY HISTORY
1. | -Day in 1944 was the greatest sea-bourn invasion in history. What was the code name for the operation? |
2. | The Panzer MK V in WWII was better known as? |
3. | The greatest British naval victory in 1805 was off of which cape in Spain? |
4. | During the English Civil War the Parliamentarians held London. In which city did the Royalists establish their rival capital? |
5. | Which ancient, fierce warrior nation, upon attacking ancient Israel, ‘…. came down like a wolf on the fold’? |
6. | At which naval battle in WWII did the Americans decisively defeat the Japanese Carrier Task Force? |
7. | In 1944 what was the name of the operation to take key bridges over major rivers in Holland by airborne and land force assaults? |
8. | After which battle did the British Life Guards first obtain their breast-plates? |
9. | The bombardment of which fort was the act which started the American Civil War? |
10. | Which WWI battle occurred on a peninsular south of Istanbul in Turkey? |
quiz kindly submitted by Jim Cutler on 20th July 2011