WW1 intro quiz
1.
2.
Name:
Who is this man?
13.
Who is this?
A
Gavrilo Princip
A
Sir John French
B
Gustav Princip
B
Field Marshall Haig
C
Franz Ferdinand
C
General Kitchener
Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdiand in 1913 in
Sarajevo, but which empire was the Archduke from?
14.
How many men made up the BEF to start with?
A
A
Russia
B
Germany
C
15.
5.
Serbia
B
Bosnia
C
Austria
16.
7.
What was the name of the terrorist organisation that Gavrilo Princip
worked for?
A
The Black Gun
B
The Black Mask
C
The Black Hand
A
17.
Britain was part of an alliance with which other two nations?
A
France & Russia
B
USA & Russia
C
10.
The Triple Union
B
The Triple Alliance
The Triple Entente
B
Lice
C
Rats
Verdun
B
Ypres
C
The Somme
Which of following was not a new type of weapon used during the
war?
A
Machine gun
C
Missile
B
Aeroplane
D
Tank
How many men died during the first day of the Somme?
France
B
19.
10000
B
20000
C
30000
What was the punishment for men who were court marshalled?
A
Belgium
C
True
B
20.
Italy
Many young men were desperate to fight in the war.
21.
False
A
The Northern Front
C
The Eastern Front
B
The Western Front
D
The Southern Front
Dismissal
B
Parisian
B
B
France
C
Ypres
B
The Somme
What does BEF stand for?
C
Verdun
Flanders
Germany was making aggressive statements and threats.
C
Germany was threatening Britain's empire.
Who is this?
A
Churchill
B
Asquith
C
Lloyd George
C
Turkey
Which nation entered the war in 1917?
USA
B
Japan
What was the ceasefire at the end of the First World War called?
A
British Expert Force
A
The peace treaty
B
British Empire Force
B
The ceasefire
C
British Expeditionary Force
25.
C
B
A
24.
Normandy
Germany would dominate Europe if they defeated Frnace.
22.
23.
Imprisonment
A
Germany
Which was the first major offensive that the British took part in?
C
Which of the following is not a reason why Britain went to war in
1914?
Which side had the better trench system?
Britain
Execution
Which fields became famous after a poem was written about the
slaughter of the war.
A
What was the name of the 500 mile stretch of trenches from the Alps
to the Channel.
A
12.
C
Which nation did Germany invade that brought Britain into the war?
A
11.
Drunkeness
France & Turkey
18.
A
A
9.
80 000
What was the name of the alliance that Britain was a part of?
A
8.
C
What was the name of the huge offensive planned by the British a
French in 1916?
A
6.
500 000
Where is Sarajevo?
A
4.
B
Which of the following was not a constant problem for the soldiers?
A
3.
800 000
Austria-Hungary
C
The armistice
What were the dates of the First World War?
A
1914-1919
B
1913-1918
C
1914-1918
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