Grades 9–10 · British history
This quiz helps revise “Britain in WWII: the Blitz and evacuees” in British history for grades 9–10. It has 25 questions in five categories: Under Attack, Keeping Safe, Evacuee Journeys, Making Supplies Last, Work and Messages. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which city, the United Kingdom's capital, was a major target of German bombing in 1940–41?
What was Nazi Germany's air force called?
What type of bomb…
In the gameWhich English city, pictured…
In the gameOn what date did…
In the gameWhat was the wartime rule requiring lights to be hidden at night so enemy aircraft could not use them as guides?
What is this protective face covering, shown on an air raid warden, which was issued to every British civilian against feared chemical attacks?
Which civilian volunteers checked…
In the gameWhat was this curved…
In the gameWhat was this steel-cage…
In the gameWhat kind of area did Britain's evacuation scheme favour over industrial cities as a safer place for children?
Which adults from their schools usually escorted groups of children to safer areas when their parents stayed behind?
What was the code…
In the gameWhat nickname described the…
In the gameWhat was the term…
In the gameWhat wartime system limited how much of certain foods each person could buy, to share scarce supplies fairly?
What were the paper tokens called that people needed alongside money to buy most new clothes in wartime Britain?
What was the illegal…
In the gameWhich British campaign urged…
In the gameWhich government department, led…
In the gameWhich British prime minister used wartime speeches to encourage resistance after taking office in May 1940?
Which volunteer force, formed in Britain in 1940, prepared to defend local areas against a German invasion?
Which British wartime campaign…
In the gameWhich British organisation, shown…
In the gameWhich social research organisation…
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