Quiz
The Outbreak of War
1) When was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?
2) What led Britain to guard the neutrality of Belgium?
Major Battles
3) Which battle began 1st July 1916 and ended November of the same year?
4) Why were trenches dug in zig-zag lines?
5) Which battle marked the beginning of trench warfare?
6) Who claimed victory at the Battle of Jutland?
7) What did the Germans use to aid their defence during the Battle of Passchendaele?
Poetry
8) Who became as well-known as a novelist as he was a poet following the war?
9) Who was Henry Lawson fighting for in the poem ‘Fighting Hard’?
Fighting on Multiple Fronts
10) Which was the only battle fought in the Far East?
11) How many labourers did China send to assist the British and the French?
Animals
12) What did a sentry dog do?
13) Where did the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade serve?
14) How many horses were estimated to have died during the war?
15) Which association provided vets for injured war horses?
Germany
16) What were the bad harvests in 1916 called?
17) Why was Otto Dix dismissed from his teaching post at the Dresden Academy in 1933?
Scotland
18) Which battle did the British Army use poisonous gas as a weapon for the first time?
19) Who advocated ‘talking therapy’ at Craiglockhart?
Crown Dependencies
20) Where did Jersey house 1,500 prisoners of war?
21) How many men from the Bailiwick of Guernsey served during the First World War?
22) Who were the ‘enemy aliens’ confined in internment camps on the Isle of Man?
Wales
23) What was the 38th or Welsh Division also known as?
24) What age did Hedd Wyn win his first prize for poetry?
British Empire
25) How many ambulances did the West Indies donate to the British?
26) Why were 700,000 India troops deployed to Mesopotamia?
27) What were the seven territories involved in the fighting of the East African Campaign?
28) What tactic did the German military use to stop their South African enemy?
Australia
29) What date is ANZAC day?
30) What did the 1st Australian General Hospital turn into wards?
India
31) What is on the left of James McBey’s painting ‘The Wadi Ali’
32) Who was known as the ‘Nightingale of India’?
Canada
33) What year was the Battle of Vimy?
34) What were the two main farm labour organisations in Cananda?
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
35) Who does the CWGC owe its existence to?
36) How many Commonwealth war dead are commemorated in the United Kingdom?
Commonwealth Stories
37) How did Manta Singh prevent Captain Henderson from suffering serious injury?
38) Why was Colour Sergeant George Williams recommended for a Victoria Cross?
39) Which football club discovered Walter Tull in 1908?
40) What was Francis Pegahmagabow’s nickname?
Irish War Poets
41) Which was the first battle that Francis Ledwidge fought in during the First World War?
42) Why did Tom Kettle sympathise with the plight of Belgium?
A New Kind of Warfare
43) What was the most common rifle issued to British troops?
44) When did tanks play a vital role in the Allied advances?
Spies
45) How many agents did Elisabeth Schragmüller send over to France?
46) How did Martha Cnockaert earn the Iron Cross in 1915?
47) What did Louise de Bettignies learn at spy school?
48) What was Gabrielle Petit’s punishment after being arrested in 1916?
Poetry and Poets
49) What does the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen describe?
50) When did Isaac Rosenberg enlist in the British Army?
51) Which poet was nicknamed ‘Mad Jack’ for bravery on the battlefields?
The War in the Skies
52) What development made dogfights more deadly?
53) What were the two forces combined together to form the RAF in April 1918?
The War in the Sea
54) Who became the undisputed master of submarine technology during the war?
55) How did the Royal Navy try to force Turkey out of the war?
The Home Front
56) Where did the first Zeppelin campaign target in January 1915?
57) What did the ‘No Treating Order’ introduce?
Young People at War
58) How did schools encourage children to learn how to farm?
59) What did the Girl Guides adopt which the Boy Scouts did not
have?
Poetry from the Home Front
60) Who helped Amy Tyreman produce 194 articles (mainly socks) for the troops?
61) What caused many women to suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Media and Propaganda
62) Who came up with the Pal Battalion recruitment campaign?
63) What action did National War Aims Committee (NWAC) take to deny that they were stifling free
speech?
Cartoons
64) Where was Bruce Bairnsfather transferred to in 1916?
65) How has Archie Gilkison been described following the rediscovery of his work in 2014?
Women at War
66) How did the 1919 Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act affect women?
67) Who was the first woman elected to Parliament?
68) Who became the patron of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
69) What does FANY stand for?
70) What is the personal inscription on Betty Stevenson’s headstone?
71) Who volunteered for the Canadian Army Medical Corps in early 1917?
72) Where was Kathleen Adele Brennan born?
73) Who said ‘patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone’?
Art and Artists
74) What is depicted in John Singer Sargent’s painting ‘Gassed’?
75) Who was the first person appointed as an Official War Artist?
76) What movement was Percy Wyndham Lewis a founding member of?
77) What strict term was imposed by the Imperial War Museum committee on Anna Airy’s contract of
employment?
Facially Injured
78) What type of surgeon was Harold Gillies?
79) Why did Gillies ask Tonks to produce diagrams of his operations?
Final Battles of the War
80) Who agreed to ceasefire with Germany on behalf of Russia?
81) What defensive position did the Allies breach on 5th October 1918?
After the Dust Settled
82) How many men fought in the First World War?
83) What did the Representation of the People Act
introduce in 1918?
Modern War Art and Poetry
84) Who wrote MCMXIV, the poem in which
Never Such Innocence takes its name?
Combat Stress
85) Why was Combat Stress founded?
Quiz - Answers
1) 28th June 1914
2) 1839 Treaty of London
3) Battle of the Somme
4) So the blast of an artillery shell landing in them
could only affect a short length of the trench
5) The First Battle of the Marne
6) Both sides. The British lost more ships and
more men than the Germans, however the
German fleet was never again in a position
to challenge the British in the North Sea
27) Belgian Congo (Democratic Republic
of Congo), British East Africa (Kenya),
German East Africa (Tanzania, Rwanda
and Burundi), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia),
Nyasaland (Malawi), Portuguese East
Africa (Mozambique) and Uganda.
28) Poisoned the wells
29) 25th April
30) An amusement park’s skating rink,
scenic railway, and skeleton house
31) Artillery gun
7) Mustard gas
32) Sarojini Naidu
8) Robert Graves
33)1917
9) For Home and Empire
34) The “Farmerettes” and Soldiers of the Soil
10) The Siege of Tsingtao
35) Sir Fabian Ware
11)140,000
36) Over 300,000
12) They acted as a guard dog, and would growl
or snarl to indicate an unknown presence
37) By pushing him to safety in a wheelbarrow
he found in No Man’s Land
13) Middle East
n.b. Manta suffered serious injury whilst carrying
out this selfless act and later died from blood
poisoning after having his legs amputated.
14) Eight million
15) Blue Cross Fund for Horses
16) ‘The turnip winter’
17) Because of his graphic and disturbing of the
war and ‘mocking’ the German idea of heroism
18) The Battle of Loos
19) Dr William Rivers
20) Blanches Banques
21)6,168
22) They were usually citizens of
hostile powers, namely those from
Germany and Austria/Hungary
23) Lloyd George’s Division
24) Age 11
25)11
26) To protect British oil reserves and put
pressure on the Ottoman Empire
38) He managed to personally carry
away the platoon machine gun after
the crew and supporting carriers
had all been killed or wounded
39) Tottenham Hotspur
40) ‘Peggy’
41) Battle of Gallipoli
42) He saw the war as a struggle for
civilised European values against the
threat posed by Imperial Germany and
became convinced that Britain’s support
of Belgium would be a precursor to
subsequent support for Irish Home Rule
43) Short Magazine Lee Enfield
44)1918
45) It has been estimated that Elisabeth
sent over 100 female agents and
four times as many men
Quiz - Answers
46) Due to her dedication to her patients, both
German and Allied, after a gas attack
47) She learnt how to create miniature maps,
write in invisible ink on tissue paper, engrave
minute letters on spectacle frames, conceal
messages in shoe heels, umbrella handles,
hems of skirts and hollowed out vegetables
67) Countess Constance Markievicz
68) Queen Mary
69) First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
70) ‘The Happy Warrior’
71) Agnes Florien Forneri
48) Death by Firing Squad
72)Sydney
49) A gas attack
73) Edith Cavell
50) March 1915
74) The aftermath of a mustard gas
attack on the Western Front
51) Siegfried Sassoon
52) A timing mechanism by Anton Fokker
that synchronised the machine gun
with the propeller, allowing bullets
to fly between turning blades
53) Royal Flying Corps and the
Royal Navy Air Service
54) The Germans
55) By taking ships through the narrow
Dardanelles and attacking Constantinople
75) Muirhead Bone
76) Vorticist movement
77) Their right to refuse work without payment
78) Ear, Nose and Throat
79) So Gillies would be able to see his patients
injuries before and after surgery
80) The Bolshevik Party
81) The Hindenburg Line
56) Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
82) 65 million
57) Reduced opening hours of Public
Houses and prevented people from
buying alcoholic drinks for others.
83) The Act gave the vote to women over the
age of 30 and all men over the age of 21
58) Kept animals and planted gardens
59) Uniform and military ranks
60) Family members including her
three-year-old sister
61) Explosions in munitions factories
62) Lord Kitchener
63) Paid freelance journalists and worked with
unions, labour organisations and church
groups to tailor what was said to public
64) The Intelligence Department of the War Office
65) ‘The Wilfred Owen of cartooning’
66) It forced thousands of women from their
jobs as men came home and factories
switched to peacetime production
84) Philip Larkin
85) To help traumatised veterans cope with their
condition through a rehabilitation programme