Q 01/05

In what setting did Germany sign the 1918 armistice, which Hitler reused to take France's surrender in 1940?

A) A hunting lodge

B) A railway carriage

C) A chateau dining room

D) A river barge

Answer · why

B) A railway carriage

A railway carriage, a dining car parked in the Forest of Compiègne, hosted both signings. Hitler had it hauled out of its museum to the exact spot and...

Q 02/05

What relation was Britain's King George V to both the Russian tsar and the German kaiser of World War I?

A) First cousin

B) Brother-in-law

C) Half-brother

D) Son-in-law

Answer · why

A) First cousin

First cousin to both, George V saw the war topple the other two thrones. In 1917 he swapped his German family name, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, for Windsor...

Q 03/05

Which soft drink was created in Nazi Germany when a wartime embargo cut off supplies of Coca-Cola syrup?

A) Sprite

B) Orangina

C) Tango

D) Fanta

Answer · why

D) Fanta

Fanta was first mixed from leftovers such as whey and apple pomace by Max Keith, head of Coca-Cola's German branch. The name came from a salesman's re...

Q 04/05

Cher Ami, a US Army messenger who lost a leg carrying a dispatch in France in 1918, was what animal?

A) A terrier

B) A mule

C) A pigeon

D) A pony

Answer · why

C) A pigeon

A pigeon, Cher Ami reached the loft with the message hanging from a shattered leg. Legend credits the bird with saving the trapped 'Lost Battalion', a...

Q 05/05

The B-29 bomber Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb in August 1945, was named after whom?

A) The pilot's wife

B) The pilot's mother

C) A Hollywood actress

D) The pilot's daughter

Answer · why

B) The pilot's mother

The pilot's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, had herself been named after the heroine of a novel. Colonel Paul Tibbets gave the plane her name on 5 August 1...