Q 01/05

Why were the first British armoured vehicles called "tanks"?

A) To keep their purpose secret

B) Because they carried water for troops

C) After a Royal Navy ship class

D) After their designer, Thomas Tank

Answer · why

A) To keep their purpose secret

To keep their purpose secret, the hulls were described to factory workers as mobile water tanks bound for Mesopotamia, and the Landships Committee ado...

Q 02/05

In what year did a tank first go into battle?

A) 1912

B) 1914

C) 1915

D) 1916

Answer · why

D) 1916

1916: tank D1, a British Mark I 'Male', went into action on 15 September 1916 during the Somme offensive, the first time a tank was ever used in battl...

Q 03/05

Vehicle 131 at Bovington, captured in Tunisia in 1943, is the only running example of which German heavy tank?

A) Panther

B) Tiger I

C) Panzer IV

D) Jagdpanther

Answer · why

B) Tiger I

Tiger 131 is the only running Tiger I; disabled in Tunisia in April 1943 when a 6-pounder shot jammed its turret, it was restored to running order at ...

Q 04/05

Which Soviet medium tank, famed for its sloped armour, was WWII's most-produced tank?

A) T-26

B) BT-7

C) T-34

D) KV-1

Answer · why

C) T-34

The T-34, with its sloped armour and 76 mm gun, was the war's most-produced tank; more than 80,000 of all variants were built, including post-war T-34...

Q 05/05

The M4 Sherman was named by the British after a general from which war?

A) The American Civil War

B) The Mexican-American War

C) The War of 1812

D) The Spanish-American War

Answer · why

A) The American Civil War

The American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman, who marched through Georgia in 1864, gave his name to the M4; the British named their Lend-Le...