Q 01/05

Which US president sent troops to Saudi Arabia in August 1990?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) George H. W. Bush

C) Bill Clinton

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

B) George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush. Victory pushed his approval rating to nearly 90 per cent, yet he lost the White House to Bill Clinton in 1992.

Q 02/05

After Saudi Arabia, which Arab country sent the largest force to the coalition?

A) Jordan

B) Egypt

C) Algeria

D) Sudan

Answer · why

B) Egypt

Egypt. The Arab world split over the war: Egypt sent tens of thousands of troops to fight Iraq, while Jordan, Algeria and Sudan took Saddam Hussein's ...

Q 03/05

Operation Desert Storm was the attack, so what did the US call the months of troop buildup that came first?

A) Operation Desert Fox

B) Operation Desert Shield

C) Operation Desert Sabre

D) Operation Desert Farewell

Answer · why

B) Operation Desert Shield

Operation Desert Shield. It was announced as a purely defensive mission to guard Saudi Arabia, but in November the force was almost doubled so that it...

Q 04/05

What name did Iraqi officials give the 1991 Gulf War?

A) The Sacred Defence

B) The Imposed War

C) Mother of all battles

D) War of the Nineteenth Province

Answer · why

C) Mother of all battles

Mother of all battles. Saddam Hussein's boast gave English 'the mother of all' everything, and the American Dialect Society voted the phrase its Word ...

Q 05/05

What did Britain call its military operations in the 1991 Gulf War?

A) Operation Telic

B) Operation Friction

C) Operation Locusta

D) Operation Granby

Answer · why

D) Operation Granby

Operation Granby. It was then the largest deployment of British troops since the Second World War, and its armoured division took about 7,000 Iraqi pr...