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World Wars Trivia Quiz
Keep Calm WWI and WWII through the films, spies, codebreakers and turning points you know from Oppenheimer, Dunkirk and Call of Duty.
189 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This World Wars Trivia Quiz has 189 questions: 67 easy, 75 medium and 47 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 189 World Wars questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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The Scottish band Franz Ferdinand named themselves after the archduke whose shooting in 1914 set off WWI. In which city was he shot?
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Sarajevo
The idea came after the band saw a racehorse called Archduke Ferdinand win a race in 2001.
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One of the most popular sayings in Britain in 1914 was that the war would be over by when?
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Christmas
It lasted more than four years; each year soldiers pinned their hopes on the same date again.
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During the December 1914 truce, German troops sang a carol first written in Austria, and British troops sang back. Which carol?
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Silent Night
The British answered with The First Noel, and in places the two sides then met between the trenches.
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In December 1914, British and German soldiers climbed out of their trenches, swapped gifts and, by some accounts, played which sport in no man's land?
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Football
Letters home describe kickabouts with makeshift balls, though most were not proper matches.
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In the 1917 Zimmermann Telegram, Germany secretly offered which country Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if it joined the war?
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Mexico
British codebreakers cracked it, and its publication helped push the US to declare war in April 1917.
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To keep them secret in 1915, Britain's first armoured fighting vehicles got a cover name that made them sound like water containers. What?
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Tank
They first went into battle at the Somme in September 1916.
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All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) builds to the moment the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918. At what time did the ceasefire start?
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11 am
The armistice was signed at about 5 am, but the fighting went on until the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
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Which Delhi landmark, a giant stone arch, was built as a memorial to the Indian soldiers of WWI and carries their names?
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India Gate
Edwin Lutyens designed it, and it was opened in 1931 as the All India War Memorial.
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In 1917, Germany helped an exiled revolutionary get home to Russia in a 'sealed train', hoping he'd pull Russia out of the war. Who was he?
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Vladimir Lenin
It worked: within months his Bolsheviks seized power, and Russia made peace with Germany in 1918.
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Which Dutch dancer, whose stage name is Malay for 'eye of the day', was convicted by a French military court of spying for Germany in 1917?
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Mata Hari
Many historians now think she was a minor player, not the master spy her accusers claimed.
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Winnie-the-Pooh is named after a real bear that a Canadian army vet took to Britain in 1914. The bear was named after which city?
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Winnipeg
Winnie went to London Zoo, where young Christopher Robin Milne loved her and renamed his teddy.
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The armistice that ended WWI was signed inside what, parked in a forest near Compiègne?
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A railway carriage
In 1940 Germany made France sign its surrender in the very same carriage, at the very same spot.
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Which British passenger liner, sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915, turned many Americans against Germany?
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Lusitania
It took almost two more years, and the Zimmermann Telegram, before the US joined the war.
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In 1917, the soldiers' mission begins because the Germans have suddenly pulled back to a new fortified line. That line was named after which German general?
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Paul von Hindenburg
The real retreat, Operation Alberich, ended in April 1917; the Germans wrecked everything they left behind.
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Call of Duty: World at War's Soviet campaign ends by raising a flag on top of which building in the German capital, like a famous 1945 photo?
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The Reichstag
The real photo, taken on 2 May 1945, became the Soviet Union's best-known picture of victory.
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Which playground word for imaginary germs began as WWI soldiers' slang for the lice in the trenches?
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Cooties
The lice were also called 'arithmetic bugs': they added troubles, subtracted pleasures and multiplied fast.
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Battlefield V's Norway story echoes a real raid on a plant making a special 'heavy' substance needed for Nazi nuclear research. What was it?
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Heavy water
In February 1943, Norwegian commandos skied in and blew up the Vemork plant's heavy water equipment.
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Which 1916 French battle lasted about ten months, the longest of the war, and gave French troops the rallying cry 'They shall not pass'?
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Verdun
It became France's great symbol of the war, as the Somme is for Britain.
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Since 1923, royal brides have laid their wedding bouquets on which grave in Westminster Abbey?
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Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
The Queen Mother started it in memory of her brother; it's the only grave in the Abbey nobody walks on.
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Battlefield 1's prologue follows the Harlem Hellfighters, a real Black US regiment. Under which country's army did they fight in 1918?
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France
The US Army kept them apart from white units, so they served with the French and won the Croix de Guerre.
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How many questions are in the World Wars Trivia Quiz?
189. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
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