Q 01/05

Which future animation pioneer drove an ambulance for the American Red Cross in France at the end of World War I?

A) Chuck Jones

B) Walt Disney

C) Tex Avery

D) William Hanna

Answer · why

B) Walt Disney

Walt Disney served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in France, then returned to Kansas City in 1919, where a commercial art studio job introduced him t...

Q 02/05

The 1859 battle whose wounded inspired the Red Cross was fought near which Italian town?

A) Custoza

B) Magenta

C) Marengo

D) Solferino

Answer · why

D) Solferino

Solferino, in Lombardy, saw losses so heavy that they helped bring about the armistice that ended the war.

Q 03/05

Which crime novelist volunteered as a nurse at a Red Cross hospital in her hometown of Torquay during World War I?

A) Dorothy L. Sayers

B) Margery Allingham

C) Agatha Christie

D) Patricia Highsmith

Answer · why

C) Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie began her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1916 during that war work; published in 1920, it introduced Hercule Poirot.

Q 04/05

Which national Red Cross society ran the 1945 'White Buses' rescue of concentration-camp prisoners?

A) The Swedish Red Cross

B) The Finnish Red Cross

C) The Swiss Red Cross

D) The Norwegian Red Cross

Answer · why

A) The Swedish Red Cross

The Swedish Red Cross, under its vice-president Count Folke Bernadotte, negotiated with Himmler to bring some 15,000 prisoners out of German camps in ...

Q 05/05

Two of the ICRC's five founders in 1863 shared which profession?

A) Pastors

B) Bankers

C) Doctors

D) Journalists

Answer · why

C) Doctors

Doctors Louis Appia and Théodore Maunoir were the surgeons among the five, whose campaign produced the first Geneva Convention, obliging armies to tre...