Question: When was GE's acquisition of Alstom agreed to by Alstom's board?
Answer: June 2014

Question: From which company did the Alstom board reject a rival acquisition proposal?
Answer: Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Question: Where is GE's headquarters located?
Answer: Fairfield, Connecticut

Question: On what street in New York was GE headquartered before moving to Fairfield?
Answer: Lexington Avenue

Question: In what year did GE move its headquarters to Fairfield?
Answer: 1974

Question: Which television broadcast company is located in the same building as GE's main offices in New York City?
Answer: NBC

Question: What was the former name of the Comcast Building, location of GE's main offices?
Answer: 30 Rockefeller Plaza at Rockefeller Center

Question: Which New York State Attorney General filed suit in US District Court to force GE to pay for the cleanup of chemicals dumped by their plant in Waterford, NY?
Answer: Robert Abrams

Question: How much did GE agree to pay in claims for the pollution it caused in the Housatonic River and other sites?
Answer: $250 million

Question: How many tons of PCBs were claimed to have been dumped by GE's Waterford Plant in the 1983 lawsuit?
Answer: more than 100,000

Question: In which year was a settlement reached regarding GE's pollution of the Housatonic River?
Answer: 1999

Question: What was the location of the pollution caused by GE in the Housatonic River?
Answer: Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Question: When was the Continental Army created?
Answer: 14 June 1775

Question: Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
Answer: George Washington

Question: From what country did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben come from?
Answer: Europe

Question: What did Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben teach the Continental Army?
Answer: Prussian tactics and organizational skills

Question: What year did American forces start being stationed in Vietnam?
Answer: 1959

Question: What caused American forces to deploy in large number in 1965?
Answer: Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Question: What political structure did Vietnam have?
Answer: communist

Question: What was organized to replace the concept of U.S. Volunteers?
Answer: the "National Army"

Question: When was the National Army demobilized?
Answer: end of World War I

Question: Who filled vacancies in the Regular Army?
Answer: "Enlisted Reserve Corps" and "Officer Reserve Corps"

Question: Who is the highest-ranked military officer in the army?
Answer: The Chief of Staff

Question: Who does the Chief of Staff serve as the principal military adviser to?
Answer: Secretary of the Army

Question: How many military services beling to the Department of Defense?
Answer: four

Question: In what year did the Goldwater-Nichols act take place?
Answer: 1986

Question: What branch of the USA Armed Forces is the largest?
Answer: The United States Army

Question: How many uniformed services are there in the US?
Answer: seven

Question: What years did the American Revolutionary War span?
Answer: 1775–83

Question: What date was the U.S. Army created?
Answer: 3 June 1784

Question: What did the U.S Army replace?
Answer: Continental Army

Question: The War of 1812 consisted of the U.S against whom?
Answer: United Kingdom

Question: In what year did the U.S. take control of Lake Eerie?
Answer: 1813

Question: Who did the U.S. defeat to collapse the Indian Confederacy?
Answer: Tecumseh

Question: In the Battle of New Orleans, who defeated the British?
Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question: What political party did not have trust in standing armies?
Answer: republican

Question: Who was defeated at the Battle of the Wabash?
Answer: General St. Clair

Question: Who did the state militias have ongoing conflict with?
Answer: Native Americans

Question: In what year was the Legion of the United States established?
Answer: 1791

Question: In what year was the Legion of the United States renamed to the United States Army?
Answer: 1796

Question: Where is the National Training Center located?
Answer: Fort Irwin, California

Question: Where is the Joint Readiness Training Center located?
Answer: Fort Polk, Louisiana

Question: Where is the Joint Multinational Training Center located?
Answer: Hohenfels, Germany

Question: In what year was ARFORGEN approved?
Answer: 2006

Question: In what states is Fort Bliss located?
Answer: New Mexico and Texas

Question: In what year did the Union Forces capture New Orleans?
Answer: 1862

Question: Who took control of the Mississippi River in 1862-63?
Answer: Ulysses Grant

Question: Who captured Atlanta?
Answer: William T. Sherman

Question: Where did Lee surrender his army?
Answer: Appomattox Court House

Question: What war occurred after the end of World War II?
Answer: Cold War

Question: In what year were corps V and corps VII reactivated?
Answer: 1950

Question: How many divisions of the U.S. Army were in Europe?
Answer: four

Question: What month and year did the U.S. join World War II?
Answer: December 1941

Question: Which military force attacked Pearl Harbor?
Answer: Japanese

Question: What is the month, day and year of "D-Day"?
Answer: June 6, 1944

Question: What war lead to the capture of the Pacific Islands by the U.S.?
Answer: Pacific War

Question: Who was responsible for the desegregation of the army?
Answer: Harry S. Truman

Question: Who adopted the Total Force Policy?
Answer: General Creighton Abrams

Question: What war was responsible for the creation of the Total Force Policy?
Answer: Vietnam War

Question: How many army components were affected by the Total Force Policy?
Answer: three

Question: Which country was invaded by the U.S. in October 2001?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: The U.S. Army invaded Iraq in what year?
Answer: 2003

Question: About how many U.S. soldiers died as of March 2008 due to counterinsurgency?
Answer: more than 4,000

Question: How many Iraqi insurgents were killed from 2003-2011?
Answer: 23,813

Question: What were National Guard members considered before 1903?
Answer: state soldiers

Question: In what year did the Milita Act take place?
Answer: 1903

Question: The Air Defense Artillery is a branch of what?
Answer: the Army

Question: National Guardsmen are under the authority of who?
Answer: the governor

Question: How many divisions are there in the U.S. Army?
Answer: 10

Question: How many brigade teams did the Army downsize to by 2015?
Answer: 32

Question: Who is the Army Chief of Staff?
Answer: Raymond Odierno

Question: By 2018, how many active Army members will there be?
Answer: 450,000

Question: How many Army Reserve members will there be by 2018?
Answer: 195,000

Question: What categories are U.S. Army training divided into?
Answer: individual and collective

Question: How long does basic training last?
Answer: 10 weeks

Question: How long does military occupation specialties training last?
Answer: 14–20 weeks

Question: What does OSUT stand for?
Answer: One Station Unit Training

Question: Where are the Armor School and the Infantry School both located?
Answer: Fort Benning, Georgia

Question: What does the SAW in M249 SAW stand for?
Answer: Squad Automatic Weapon

Question: What kind of gunfire is the M249 SAW generally used for?
Answer: suppressive fire

Question: What is the Mossberg 590 used for?
Answer: door breaching and close-quarters combat

Question: What gun do designated marksmen use?
Answer: M14EBR

Question: What semi-automatic sniper do Snipers use?
Answer: M110

Question: How many MRAP vehicles has the Pentagon bought since 2007?
Answer: 25,000

Question: How many of the vehicles will be used for training?
Answer: 1,073

Question: How many of the 25,000 vehicles do they plan on getting rid of?
Answer: 7,456

Question: The Army will be keeping 5,681 of what vehicle?
Answer: Oshkosh M-ATV

Question: What type of ambulance will the Army have 301 of?
Answer: Maxxpro

Question: What piece of the uniform has been replaced by the patrol cap?
Answer: black beret