World History trivia quiz

Yep, that’s the one, and that’s the reason.

To answer a question, 420. is Lowell Thomas.

Afraid not. Case White was the plan to invade Poland, which was executed, regrettably.

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!)

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…

Correct.

Yes. They gave the American reporter a different, fictitious name in the Peter O’Toole movie.
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Antonious Block**, your Allied memo to Hitler is a keeper. LOL! :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

Damn, the deception really worked, since it even fooled me 64 years after the fact! :wink:

Since we’re playing WWII-era 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.

  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)
  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?
  1. Skorzeny
  2. von Stauffenberg

Correct. Bonus points for first names.

Otto and Klaus.
Middle names I’m not too sure of. (Guess where I am in the AP Euro syllabus this week.) :smiley:

  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.

  1. Correct.
  2. Yes, but what, exactly?

silenus, correct as to the first names.

Design of the Berghof (his mountain villa thingy)?

Good guess, but no.

dog house for Blondi?

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.

Sorry, no.

Sorry, that’s not what I was thinking of.

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?