WWII A-Z #2
For each letter, name these people, places, and things from World War 2.
Quiz idea: thecoolestguy
Quiz by Quizmaster
First submitted May 24, 2014
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Nazi "master race"
British codebreaking site
Leader of China
Chiang Kai-Shek
German city destroyed
by firebombs
Nickname of the B-17 bomber
Flying Fortress
Luftwaffe commander
City hit by an atomic bomb
Island where U.S. Marines
raised a flag
German word for hunter,
or light infantry
Hitler's manifesto
Russian city beseiged
for 3 years
Pacific Theater turning point
Primary language of
Native American code-talkers
Bitter Pacific battle of 1945
U.S. Naval base attacked in 1941
1943 US/UK conference site
German commander in Africa
Erwin Rommel
Soviet dictator
Yugoslav partisan leader
Josip Broz Tito
One of the American beaches
on D-Day
River on which Stalingrad lies
City whose ghetto had
400,000 Jews
Japan's top admiral
Isoroku
Gas chamber chemical
burntfrost
I didn't know the Chinese leader, so I just typed "Chang."
That's not incredibly surprising. The distribution of last names in China is not very diverse. In fact, 85% of the population has one of the top 100 family names:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surnames
kalbahamut
That's extremely diverse compared to Vietnam or Korea.
Aar0nC
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in 1923 so technically it wasn't WW2 but, it did have a big influence of Nazi Germany and the Nuremberg race laws so it could probably pass as WW2. Still a good quiz. Are you going to do quizzes like causes of WW2 and stuff like that as well?
Cause: WW1
ColoHarpare
Huh. I did way better than I expected. Only missed 2. Guess I know more about WWII than I thought!
I was typing Yamimoto but it didn't accept it. Close, but no banana.
LadyScroop
Vietnam war quiz? Revolutionary war quiz?
Ellerstrand
Can you accept Pearl Harbour?
Never heard of Zyklon B. Is it generally that well known?
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot
That name pops up quite often when you read about the concentration camps. If you ever get to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau or some other camp that's been preserved as a museum, it becomes difficult to forget.
Yanni47
Visiting Auschwitz recently has certainly helped me with that question.
I've visited Auschwitz but I'd heard the name before, watching documentaries on the History Channel. Back when they still showed things on the History Channel other than programs about hicks buying other hicks' garbage. And alien ghosts.
You sound rather disdainful of us hicks. We're not all such bad folks, you know. I can't vouch for alien ghosts, however, as I don't know any.
If I met someone from the midwest or a rural area who wasn't ignorant, wasn't proudly uncultured, and who didn't spend their time scrounging through garbage that they could maybe turn a profit on, I don't think I'd describe them as a hick. I'm sure I wouldn't call you a hick, ander, even though I know you live on a farm the label doesn't seem to fit. But when the shoe fits...
redsplat
Wow, you'd almost think the US was involved for the majority of the war, considering how many questions relate to them in this quiz :P
divantilya
Excuse me, the war started in '39 and the US joined in '41 or early '42. The war ended in '45. Do the math! - And the date of joining the war is not as important as the fact that if we hadn't, German would be the dominant language in England and most of the Continent. So, have some respect and stop trying to re-write history.
ruftytufty
The Germans got nowhere near taking over Britain and had failed long before the U.S. entered the war. No one doubts the immense contribution made by the U.S., but if Britain had surrendered in 1940, giving Nazi Germany the world's largest navy, all the early jet research, the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the Merlin engine and the cavity magnetron, with no raid on the Norsk Hydro and no breach of enigma you might have found yourself having to brush up on the use of umlauts yourself. Respect is best when it's reciprocal.
CaoMaru
You do know that the UK had already survived the Battle of Britain when the USA joined in the war. So the UK would have survived, but maybe would not have been able to invade France.
The Germans really did get close to defeating Britain. If it hadn't been for the Blitz that allowed the RAF to regroup, repair, and resupply they might have succeeded as pointed out in "The Narrow Margin" by Wood and Dempster. Other than convoy support and LendLease, the US played a limited part in helping to defend Britain until later. I don't believe that operation Sealion would have been successful, but a negotiated peace to prevent further civilian casualties might have been possible. I don't think that a outright surrender ever crossed the mind of anyone in Britain for more than an instant. Other than that "ruftytufty", I am in complete agreement with your comments of "Respect is best when it's reciprocal." and others. No country was single-handedly responsible for winning the war and as you state later in the comments there were many others who were responsible for huge contributions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the British Empire, and Poland to name just a few.
grantdon
The Russians were probably most responsible for turning the tide on the German army. The Germans were well and truly on the back foot before the US military got involved in Europe
Yeah, Britain did real well surviving by itself manufacturing arms, processing oil and growing food....
09/1939-05/1940 War declared, but absolutely nothing done.
05/1940 Germany overruns France, pushes the British army completely into the ocean almost overnight.
05/1940-06/1944 U.S. fights all over an ocean stretching almost halfway across the globe. England can literally look at Continental Europe from England for 4 years across a narrow body of water.
06/1940 U.S., after coming across another vast ocean for 4 years with a lifeline to Britain, along with its northern British semi-colony, arrives to fight for Britain, despite its own logistical involvement in a giant war covering almost half the Earth.
England hops along for the remaining 10 miles of the ocean oddyssey.
Meanwhile, the Russians and Chinese have been getting pummeled with 40,000,000 deaths to soften up the Japanese and Germany so the British can Invade and the Americans can claim the ride.
Meanwhile, Italy played friends with whomever threatened to beat them up.
Patton shows up and blasts straight through everything, making a huge salient into the German Front. Montgomery cries about it and gets Patton's gasoline rations, halting and severely endangering the Americans. My father will suffer from cold-inflicted maladies to his body for another 72 years after being abandoned from the good old American supply train. Montgomery offers to "rescue" them with "his" supplies. Dad is temporarily under the British Army running on his own 3rd Army's withheld gas.
Japan was later thoroughly defeated and offered to surrender with 1 and only 1 condition: that the Emperor be unharmed. The U.S. said no way, only unconditional surrender and nuked them into submission. The U.S. then let the Emperor sit on the throne for 40+ more years, because he didn't really do anything in government anyway.
180Degrees
I believe that the common saying - at least that I have heard (it is possible I have change the words somewhere along the line) - is that the war was won with American brawn, British brains, and Russian blood.
samiamco
I'm not sure divantilya even _got_ redsplat's post to begin with…
You'd almost think the US wasn't involved in the war at all, considering how many times Europeans complain about having to answer questions in any way related to them.
Manstein
no its because the US involvement is massively blown out of proportion, there are two questions that concern the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union inflicted around 80-85% of all German casualties in the war. I think you can work out from that stat who contributed the most.
What percentage of Japanese or Italian casualties were inflicted by the USSR? You kinda proved my point a little bit there...
Questions pertaining to: Germany (7), Japan (4), the USSR (3), the USA (3), the UK (1), China (1), the Allies (1), the Pacific theater (1), Canada (1), Yugoslavia (1), France (1), Poland (1)
There's nothing wrong with the quiz. You're complaining to complain, and those liking your comment are doing so to be hateful.
Oh, yes! - Just dismiss the fact that Americans (who weren't officially in the war yet) and Canadians were part of those assaults you so proudly name. - And by the way, I don't have to brush up on my umlauts... my third language is German.
I only named one assault. There were no Americans involved. It was planned by the SOE, supported by the British Army and the RAF and carried out by some exceptionally brave Norwegians. I wouldn't dream of slighting the crucial Canadian contribution to the Allied cause. That's really rather the point I'm making. You can be proud of your own country's contribution without ignorantly underestimating others'.
If only we could have a "do over", with the Americans staying out of Europe (engaging the Japanese in the Pacific exclusively) and see what would have happened.
Edpycho
Might be nice to mention that the third participant nation at the Quebec Conference was Canada. MacKenzie King famously posed with Churchill and Roosevelt at the Chateau Frontenac.
CricketLegend06
X is before W
Arp2600
I tried Blechley, Blecheley, Bletcheley, Bletchely, Blechly, etc. and didn't get it... it's not an easy word to write, maybe a few type-ins would be nice?
In my opinion, questions A, K and Z, as well as the wording of W, are not about WWII but about nazism. For example, for Warsaw, I would have talked of the uprising and/or the destruction of the city rather than the ghetto. You see what I mean?
JediGrandmaster
The Nazi ideology was a key reason if not the main reason why Nazi Germany declared war on Poland because they wanted to reclaim land lost at Versailles and to take its resources and to take one of the countries with the largest Jewish population in Europe so questions related to Nazism is also very well connected to ww2
Temudhun
W and X have been switched.
WanHuangdi
So, does this mean that Jaegermeister meant "Mr. Hunter" this whole time?
Sifhraven
I think more like master of the hunt. Or master huntsman. Mr. Hunter would be Herr Jäger.
sumguy
Typed "Jagger". Didn't get it. Assumed I was wrong and moved on.
You were wrong, though.
I guess technically the question should be "River on which Stalingrad lay". It doesn't lie there now because it doesn't exist anymore.
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