WW II Quiz

Welcome to our WW2 'true or false' quiz with instant solutions.
But watch out! Think twice about the answer before you click. You got only one chance per row!
For correct answers the indicated points are added, for incorrect ones those points are subtracted!
Of course all statements refer to the period of WW2. Have fun and a positive result. :o)

	True	False	Points
01. The Italian general Guzzoni's nickname was barba elettrica (electric beard). False. The general bearing that nickname was Annibale Bergonzoli, commander of the XXIIIth corps.			+/-1
02. The airfield on Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) was called Anderson Field. Nearly true, i.e. false. ;) The actual name of that heavily fighted for airfield was Henderson Field.			+/-1
03. The designation King Tiger (Koenigstiger) for the Tiger II had been invented by Heinz Guderian. False. It was a (post-war) designation by the Allies.			+/-1
04. The Germans' most important encryption device was called Eminem. False. Enigma, of course.			+/-1
05. 'Alamein' was an official element of Monty's full name / title. True. Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (since 1946).			+/-1
06. Gen. George S. Patton showed his contempt for the Germans by peeing into the Rhine from a bridge. True. Exactly: from a pontoon bridge and in front of his gathered soldiers.			+/-1
07. The New Zealand destroyer Maori was 93% crewed by Maoris. False. Tribal class DD HMS Maori was a British ship with a British crew.			+/-1
08. The US mainland was air-bombed by the Japanese. True. About 9000 unguided balloons carrying 4 bombs each were started from Japan, but very few reached the US and caused neglectible damage. And in 1942 a plane transported by a I-25 sub bombed the Mt. Emily in Oregon.			+/-2
09. The US mainland was air-bombed by the Germans. False. The Germans had neither strategic long-range bombers nor suitable wind for balloons. And they made use of their Uboats in a more 'sensible' way.			+/-2
10. At the launching of the Bismarck Adolf Hitler asked 'And what if a torpedo hits the rudder?' True. Hitler's notorious premonitions also helped him to escape from many assassination attempts.			+/-2
11. Grand Admiral Yamamoto died on board his sinking flagship Yamato. False. The Yamato was sunk in April, 1945. Yamamoto was shot down in April, 1943, on an inspection flight.			+/-2
12. The jet engines of the Me-262 had a durability of only 20 operational hours. True - due to lack of adequate material.			+/-2
13. The airframe of the famous DeHaviland Mosquito was entirely made of wood. True. The only disadvantage: in the tropics exposure to high humidity and heavy rain caused it to warp.			+/-2
14. The Mosquito could carry the same bomb load to distant targets as the four-engined B-17. True. Obviously the Mosquito had to carry only half as much fuel. See also this site.			+/-2
15. The French résistance often used pidgeons to send messages to England. True. Radio transmitters could be located by the Germans and were therefore pretty risky.			+/-2
16. The Tiger II ('King Tiger', see above) had a 10.5 cm gun. False. The battle tank had a long barrel 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71. The (related) Jagdtiger TD had a 12.8 cm ATG.			+/-2
17. The Soviet KV tank series was named after its capable designer Kliment Voroshilov. False. 'Kliment Voroshilov' is correct, but that guy was the minister of defense, not a 'working-class hero'. Link 1, Link 2			+/-2
18. British (Gloucester Meteor) pilots often made V1 flying bombs crash by touching them by their wings. True. Shooting the V1 down was hazardous for the pilots due to the enormous explosion. So they tilt the V1 which then crashed into the sea.			+/-2
19. Hitler never again appointed a field marshal after Paulus had "betrayed" him by not committing suicide in Stalingrad. False. On April 5, 1945, he made an exception and promoted Ferdinand Schoerner, a fanatic Nazi.			+/-2
20. Three Soviet cities never conquered by the Wehrmacht were Leningrad, Moscow, and Sevastopol. False. Sevastopol was conquered by von Manstein's 11th Army in the 2nd attempt in June / July 42 (see the Raiders scenario ;)			+/-3
21. Stalin fled Moscow in an amored train when German troops were only 30 km away from the Kremlin in December, 1941. False. There was an an amored train ready to evacuate Stalin, but the 'heroic' dictator eventually stayed in Moscow. However, he had already fled in October for a short period of time.			+/-3
22. Afraid of a German invasion, the British government 'evacuated' gold and stock exchange securities worth 1.8 billion pound Sterling to Canada. True. Starting on June 24, 1940, the treasure was shipped to Canada by several major warships, including the battleship Revenge, and stored in Ottawa.			+/-3
23. Roosevelt and Churchill met each other at Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. False. The Potsdam conference took place in July / Aug., 1945. Roosevelt had died on April 12, 1945. So it was Harry S. Truman who met Churchill in Potsdam.			+/-3
24. Rudolf Hess, on his "peace flight" to Scotland, was neither authorized by Hitler nor did he intend to negotiate with the British government directly. True. Hitler rampaged and called Hess 'insane' when he got to know that action. And Hess seemed to assume that an attempt to negotiate with Churchill or his ministers as "war mongers" would be useless. Instead he "negotiated" with a certain Lord Hamilton who soon had enough of that nonsense and got Hess arrested. See also Wikipedia.			+/-3