History
The “The Second World War” quiz — History. It has 25 questions in five categories: Turning Points, Secret War, Pacific Theatre, Occupation and Home, Machines of War. 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.
From the beaches of which French town were over 300,000 Allied soldiers evacuated to Britain in late May and early June 1940?
The surrender of the German Sixth Army in February 1943 ended a brutal winter battle for which city on the Volga?
Near which Egyptian coastal…
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What is the name of this German rotor cipher machine whose military messages were cracked by Allied cryptanalysts?
Which British mathematician at Bletchley Park designed the electromechanical Bombe to crack German military ciphers?
The language of which…
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Over the sunken battleship of which US naval base in Hawaii is this white memorial building erected?
Near which Pacific atoll in June 1942 did the US Navy sink four Japanese fleet aircraft carriers in a decisive victory?
What Japanese word, meaning…
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In the gameThe dome of which London cathedral famously stood undamaged amidst fire and smoke during the Blitz in December 1940?
Which fictional female factory worker in a red bandana became the US cultural icon of women's wartime industrial labor?
In which European capital…
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Which British fighter plane with distinctive elliptical wings, pictured here, became a hero of the Battle of Britain?
Which compact four-wheel-drive vehicle was mass-produced by Willys for Allied armies?
Which famous medium tank…
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.
