# World History trivia quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 8, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759 "2008-02-08T02:54:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/661 "2008-03-19T03:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] If I’ve got the right guy in mind, he was a few decades post-Revolution, and wanted France to abandon the Revolutionary _tricolor_ (Red White & Blue) flag and use his dynastic one. No dice. [/QUOTE] Yep, that’s the one, and that’s the reason. To answer a question, 420. is Lowell Thomas. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/662 "2008-03-19T03:59:04Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 431. What was the German codename for the never-implemented invasion plan against Czechoslovakia? Case White? [/QUOTE] Afraid not. Case White was the plan to invade Poland, which was executed, regrettably. ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/663 "2008-03-19T04:04:07Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 131 This famous author fought in the Battle of Lepanto. [/QUOTE] Did anybody ever answer this? It’s Miguel de Cervantes. Who lost several fingers from his right hand in the fight, and wrote that it was “to the greater glory of the left.” (Cervantes could be hard-core!) ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/664 "2008-03-19T08:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=Danimal] 428. What was the objective of Operation Fortitude? [/QUOTE] Memo from Allies to Hitler, before June 1944: Well, you know we’re going to invade Fortress Europe, but you probably don’t know just **where**. Oh look, there’s Patton and his 1st Army, massing near Dover for a crossing to the Pas de Calais _[don’t look too closely at the tanks, however…]_. That’s probably where we’ll invade, for sure. Or perhaps Norway. But **definitely** not Normandy. No way, nosiree! Nothing to see there… ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/665 "2008-03-19T16:29:49Z")
[QUOTE=Danimal] Did anybody ever answer this? It’s Miguel de Cervantes. Who lost several fingers from his right hand in the fight, and wrote that it was “to the greater glory of the left.” (Cervantes could be hard-core!) [/QUOTE] Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/666 "2008-03-19T17:57:01Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] …To answer a question, 420. is Lowell Thomas. [/QUOTE] Yes. They gave the American reporter a different, fictitious name in the Peter O’Toole movie. \*\* Antonious Block\*\*, your Allied memo to Hitler is a keeper. LOL! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/667 "2008-03-20T01:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] Memo from Allies to Hitler, before June 1944: Well, you know we’re going to invade Fortress Europe, but you probably don’t know just **where**. Oh look, there’s Patton and his 1st Army, massing near Dover for a crossing to the Pas de Calais _[don’t look too closely at the tanks, however…]_. That’s probably where we’ll invade, for sure. Or perhaps Norway. But **definitely** not Normandy. No way, nosiree! Nothing to see there… [/QUOTE] Haha! Yes, that’s the answer. Although Patton’s fictional command was actually the First U.S. Army _Group_, FUSAG, rather than Omar Bradley’s 1st Army. ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/668 "2008-03-20T08:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Danimal] …Patton’s fictional command was actually the First U.S. Army _Group_, FUSAG, rather than Omar Bradley’s 1st Army. [/QUOTE] Damn, the deception **really** worked, since it even fooled me 64 years after the fact! 😉 Since we’re playing WWII-era [Spy vs. Spy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_vs_spy), here’s a _quid pro quo_: About one year prior to the aforementioned “Operation Fortitude”, a body – wearing the uniform of a British military officer – washed up on a beach on the Southwest (Atlantic) coast of Spain, near Huelva. **432.** What was in the briefcase that was found attached to the body? _[The answer should contain the names of at least two islands.]_ **433.** There was a film made about this. What was it called? **434.** Describe one of the _(several, IIRC)_ post-D-Day events that fortuitously ended up as a “reverse-psych” due to the success of the _deliberate_ “psych” referred to in Questions 432-433. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/669 "2008-03-20T13:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] **432.** What was in the briefcase that was found attached to the body? _[The answer should contain the names of at least two islands.]_ [/QUOTE] 1. Plans for a (fake) Allied marine assault on Italy via Corsica and Sardinia. (the first part I’m 100% on, the islands and target not so much) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/670 "2008-03-20T13:37:11Z")
[QUOTE=Antonius Block] … **433.** There was a film made about this. What was it called? **434.** Describe one of the _(several, IIRC)_ post-D-Day events that fortuitously ended up as a “reverse-psych” due to the success of the _deliberate_ “psych” referred to in Questions 432-433. [/QUOTE] 1. _A Man Called Intrepid_. 2. Hitler insisting on personal control over the panzer divisions in Western France in mid-1944? More Nazi questions. 1. He was Heydrich’s top aide at the Wannsee Conference, and was later captured by the Israelis, tried and executed. 2. He was Hitler’s personal photographer. 3. He was called “Hitler’s commando,” and rescued Mussolini in a daring raid. 4. He placed the briefcase bomb that unfortunately failed to kill the Fuhrer. 5. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/671 "2008-03-20T14:00:16Z")
1. Skorzeny 2. von Stauffenberg ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/672 "2008-03-20T14:04:55Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] 437. Skorzeny 438. von Stauffenberg [/QUOTE] Correct. Bonus points for first names. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/673 "2008-03-20T14:23:53Z")
Otto and Klaus. Middle names I’m not too sure of. (Guess where I am in the AP Euro syllabus this week.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/674 "2008-03-20T14:35:49Z")
1. He was Heydrich’s top aide at the Wannsee Conference, and was later captured by the Israelis, tried and executed. Adolph Eichmann 2. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler? Speer is some kind of architectural work for Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/675 "2008-03-20T17:46:51Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] 435. He was Heydrich’s top aide at the Wannsee Conference, and was later captured by the Israelis, tried and executed. Adolph Eichmann 1. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler? Speer [did] some kind of architectural work for Hitler. [/QUOTE] 2. Correct. 3. Yes, but _what_, exactly? **silenus** , correct as to the first names. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/676 "2008-03-20T17:57:06Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. What was Albert Speer’s first paid task for Hitler? Design of the Berghof (his mountain villa thingy)? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/677 "2008-03-20T19:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Design of the Berghof (his mountain villa thingy)? [/QUOTE] Good guess, but no. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/678 "2008-03-20T21:27:53Z")
dog house for Blondi? ---
**Author:** ![Antonius\_Block](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@Antonius\_Block](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antonius_Block)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/679 "2008-03-21T09:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] 432. Plans for a (fake) Allied marine assault on Italy via Corsica and Sardinia. (the first part I’m 100% on, the islands and target not so much) [/QUOTE] Correct! The actual invasion took place on Sicily (which was in fact the **obvious** place to go in, hence the great need for the deception), and the planted briefcase held plans for fake invasions on Corsica, Sardinia and mainland Greece, as well as saying – in a stroke of sheer genius – that there would be also a _diversionary_ invasion of Sicily. Hitler swallowed the ruse hook, line, and sinker, and diverted Panzer divisions from the eastern front to Greece (so the plan ended up helping the Soviets as well). Even after the (real) Sicily landings took place, Hitler believed that they would prove to be just a diversion and kept the needed reinforcements tied up for invasions that never took place. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 433. _A Man Called Intrepid_. [/QUOTE] Sorry, no. [QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] 434. Hitler insisting on personal control over the panzer divisions in Western France in mid-1944? [/QUOTE] Sorry, that’s not what I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759/680 "2008-03-21T17:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=5 time champ] dog house for Blondi? [/QUOTE] Heh. Also wrong. Let’s talk about Scouting. 1. This man founded the international Scouting Movement. 2. He first won military glory during the siege of this city. 3. When spying on German fortifications during peacetime, what did he pretend to be, and how specifically did this aid him in his espionage? 4. The first Scout encampment was in what park? 5. What was this man’s Scouting title at the time of his death? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/world-history-trivia-quiz/436759.md?page=35)