Q 01/05

Which capital did the Allies liberate on 25 August 1944, eleven weeks after D-Day?

A) Brussels

B) Paris

C) Amsterdam

D) Copenhagen

Answer · why

B) Paris

Paris was freed as the Battle of Normandy ended; five days later the last German units retreated east across the Seine, closing the campaign that D-Da...

Q 02/05

D-Day opened which codenamed Allied campaign, the Battle of Normandy, that ended with the Germans retreating across the Seine?

A) Operation Sea Lion

B) Operation Overlord

C) Operation Barbarossa

D) Operation Torch

Answer · why

B) Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was first drawn up as a three-division assault; in early 1944 its commanders widened it to five divisions on a broader front, and t...

Q 03/05

Which Allied leader kept pressing for a 'second front' to relieve his armies?

A) Winston Churchill

B) Chiang Kai-shek

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Franklin Roosevelt

Answer · why

C) Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin began pressing for it after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941; at Tehran in late 1943 he at last won a British and American promi...

Q 04/05

Who served as the Supreme Allied Commander overseeing the D-Day invasion?

A) Bernard L. Montgomery

B) Dwight D. Eisenhower

C) Omar N. Bradley

D) George S. Patton

Answer · why

B) Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower drafted, and never had to release, a note taking sole blame in case the landings failed.

Q 05/05

The wooden poles planted in Normandy's fields to wreck Allied gliders were nicknamed Rommel's what?

A) Toothpicks

B) Asparagus

C) Matchsticks

D) Fence posts

Answer · why

B) Asparagus

Asparagus: on Rommel's orders the Rommelspargel went up in likely landing fields, often strung with tripwires and topped with mines, to deter paratroo...