From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: WORLD WAR II TRIVIA QUIZ: 2
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:09:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: ducvax.1992Apr7.040901.2267


Hi, again!
1 point for a right answer, 0 for a wrong one, and a half a point
if I think your answer is close enough or if it is amusing enough. :)
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1) The British said  there were 3 things wrong with U.S. troops in England.
What were they? (1/3 pt each correct response)

2) I was a German-born final inspector of the top secret Norden bombsight
in the Carl L. Norden Incorporated plant in Manhattan.  I turned the
plans over to the Germans in 1938, so that one of the most guarded
secrets of the U.S. in World War II was actually known by her enemy long
before the war.  Who am I?
(HINT: my last name is shared by the last name of one of the players
on the 1992 NCAA Champions in basketball).  Need first name, as well. Sorry.

3) I played shortstop for the New York Yankees.  I served 3 years with the
U.S. Navy, contracting Malaria in New Ginea, where I saw action. Who am I?

4) I am a "commie bastard" as you Americans are so fond of saying.  I shot
down more "krauts," as you say, than any other pilot of the Russian
fatherland.  What is my name and how many "fascist pigs" did I kill (shoot
down)?  (name and number, 0.5 pts. each.  1pt bonus for rank if you get the
1st two correct)

5) What was the U.S. Navy slang term for a torpedo?

6) This Japanese carrier was sunk by the U.S. submarine ARCHERFISH only
2 hours after it was launched on November 29, 1944.  It was constructed
on a hull comparable to the battleship YAMATO and was 861 feet long. In
reality it was to be a sister ship of the YAMATO and the MUSASHI, the 2
largest battleships ever built.  The first B-29 raids on Tokyo made the
Japanese uneasy and the high command ordered it moved to the safer Inland 
Sea.  The crew of this carrier was commanded by Captain Toshio Abe, who
along with most of his crew was untrained.  Many of the watertight doors
had not been installed and there were no fire pumps on board.  Cpt. Abe
and 500 of the crew died when it sank.  Name the boat!

7) I was the first U.S. Representative to join the military after the U.S.
entry into the war, being sent to the South Pacific in May 1942 as FDR's
personal representative.  I was a Lieutenant Commander on the U.S. Navy
and went along on a B-25 named HECKLING HARE on a bombing mission of
New Guinea.  A NEW YORK TIMES dispatch said the aircraft returned with
engine trouble, but I said we were attacted by Japanese aircraft. No
one on board had been injured, yet General Douglass MacArthur presented
me with the Silver Star.  I was the only one on board who received it.
Who am I?

8) What was the Morse Code shorthand message used in WWII by merchant
ships to say "I have been torpedoed."?

9) I was a German Field Marshall and Chief of the High Command of the
Armed Forces.  I was the son-in-law of Field Marshall Werner von
Blomberg and aided in von Blomberg's downfall by passing on a police
dossier on his new wife to (Nazi head of the Luftwaffe Hermann) Goering.
I was nicknamed "lackey" because of my willingness to do Hitler's
bidding.  I was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremburg and hanged by the
neck until dead on October 16, 1946.  Who am I?

10) This city was the site of U.S. atomic bomb research (among others).
This community of 50,000 people did not even have a funeral home during
WWII because of the secrecy of the research.  The garbage companies only
hired illiterates so that if they found any classified material, they
would not be able to read it.  (HINT: it is not Los Alamos)

Bonus: Speaking of explosions, a Brigadier General commanded the Manhattan
Project throughout the war.  What is his name? 
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Answers will be posted on or about midnight Monday morning. As with all
quizzes, E-mail, don't post the answers, please.  Even if you only
answer 1 or 2 of the questions, answer the quiz.  I'll let each
individual know the answers in a personal reply if requested to do so.

Ken