Q 01/05

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place on which date?

A) November 11, 1941

B) December 25, 1941

C) December 7, 1941

D) January 7, 1942

Answer · why

C) December 7, 1941

Roosevelt called it 'a date which will live in infamy'. Glenn Miller's 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' was the number-one song in America that day.

Q 02/05

The D-Day landings in Normandy took place on which date in 1944?

A) 4 July

B) 1 May

C) 6 June

D) 15 August

Answer · why

C) 6 June

Codenamed Operation Neptune within Operation Overlord, it remains the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Q 03/05

Victory in Europe Day, marking Germany's unconditional surrender, is celebrated on which date?

A) 30 April 1945

B) 2 September 1945

C) 8 May 1945

D) 6 June 1945

Answer · why

C) 8 May 1945

The definitive surrender document was signed in Karlshorst, Berlin, at 22:43 that night. Japan's surrender came in September.

Q 04/05

The first nuclear device ever detonated, the Trinity test, took place in July 1945 in which state?

A) Nevada

B) Colorado

C) New Mexico

D) Wyoming

Answer · why

C) New Mexico

It was an implosion-type bomb fired at White Sands Proving Ground. Robert Oppenheimer directed the Los Alamos lab that designed it.

Q 05/05

The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October of which year?

A) 1946

B) 1947

C) 1945

D) 1948

Answer · why

C) 1945

The charter had been drafted at a San Francisco conference that spring; the first General Assembly met in London in January 1946 with 51 nations.