History Quiz

Which of these acts of aggression by Axis countries occurred during, rather than before, World War II? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

Can you identify this World War II-era British Commonwealth armored vehicle? (Featuring an American paintjob on the photo.)

Fall Weiss (“Case White”) was the World War II German strategic plan for what?

For what action did Daniel Daly, the U.S. Marine who famously and allegedly shouted 'Come on, you sons-o'-bitches, do you want to live forever?' at the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I, receive his first Medal of Honor out of two?

On April 1, 1940, the BBC broadcast a fake speech by Hitler as an April Fools’ jest. What was the speech about?

Aerial ramming between airplanes was performed occasionally by pilots of many World War II nations, and as an official policy by some. In which nation was the practice known as “taran”? (Photo does not necessarily indicate the correct answer.)

Which World War II fighter plane scored the most aerial victories?

U.S. soldiers stationed overseas sometimes got in violent conflicts with either civilians, the soldiers or an allied country, or black troops from their own ranks. Which of these four incidents did NOT have racial conflict as its primary instigator? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

Which nation was the strongest supporter of Austria’s independence from Germany for most of the 1930s before the Anschluss?

Which of these was NOT a British operation with the goal of sinking the German battleship Tirpitz with an air raid?