From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: WORLD WAR II TRIVIA ANSWERS
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:57:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: ducvax.1992Apr7.025707.2266

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> 1. Who commanded the task force that launched Doolittle's Raid on Tokyo on
> April 18, 1942?

William F. Halsey.
 
> 2. U.S. Marine Corps Ace Gregory Boyington shot down more enemy aircraft than
> any other marine.  How many did he down?

28
 
> 3. I was a German spy who landed in Florida from U-584 on June 17, 1942,
> as part of OPERATION PASTORIUS.  I had lived in Chicago from 1932 to 1941.
> My father was a loyal Nazi who had served in the German Army durind WWI.  I
> joined the Nazi Bund, and worked for a company that manufactured parts for
> the Norden bomb sight.  I escaped to Germany via Mexico City and was later
> awarded the Iron Cross for running the British blockade.  After undergoing
> training, I returned to the U.S. and was picked up by the FBI, tried, found
> guilty of espionage, and executed on August 8, 1942.  My birthday was
> December 7.  Who am I?

An unlucky bastard, in any event.  His name is Hans Herbert Haupt
 
  4.  The American nickname for Germans was "krauts."  The French one was
> "Boche."  What did the English call them?

Jerries or Gerry -- either way is a point.
 
> 5. How many nations made up the Allies in WWII?

Most people grossly underestimated this number.  I got anywhere from 4 to
about 12 or so.  the number is 46!
 
> 6. Which nations made up the Big Four?

U.S., U.S.S.R., Britain, and CHINA, not France.  Remember, France was
occupied by the "Fascist Pigs" during most of the war
 
> 7. To what group of people did the Draft Classification "IVD" refer?

Ministers
 
> 8. What was a Dora or a Heavy Gustav?

Most people deduced that it referred to a piece of artillery.  However,
that wasn't quite what I was looking for.  It was actually the name of a
siege cannon used by the Germans.  The shell it fired was 31.5 inches
across, weighed 5 tons, and had a range of 29 miles.  A special 7-ton
shell could travel 24 miles.  The barrel was 107 ft long and the gun
could fire 3 shells per hour.  60 railway cars were required to move the
thing.  The crew for DORA was commanded by a major general and consisted
of 4,120 men.  It was sometimes called a "Heavy Gustav" and one round
is known to have destroyed an ammunition dump one hundred feet below
the ground.
 
> 9. What did Moshe Dayan, Peter Falk, John Ford, Rex Harrison, Kichisaboru
> Nomura, Saburo Sakai, Colonel Klaus von Stauffenberg, and British Field
> Marshall Archibald Wavell all have in common?

All are cyclops! Only one eye.
 
> 10. Which American baseball hall-of-famer joined the U.S. Marine Corps in
> May 1942, becoming a captain and fighter pilot in WWII, flying over 1,100
> hours between 1942 and 1945?

It's my hero, Ted Williams.  BTW, he hit 521 HR, hit WELL over .300 in his
career, while missing several years to go fight for our freedom.
 
Scores are as follows:
jdm42241@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu   [1/10]
sunder@bach.crhc.uiuc.edu  [0.5/10] 
aksimha@mailhost.ecnuoknor.edu [1/10]
beb@pt.com                    [4/10]
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apparently, this was a difficult quiz, as the 4 people above were the only
ones brave enough to answer.  NOTE that they did not necessarily answer
EVERY question.  In fact, NOBODY answered every question.

Thanks to all those who answered my quiz.  Look for my next WWII quiz!
__________________________________________________________________________

Ken
P.S. LETS go DEVils! ***stomp stomp STOMP STOMP STOMP***
1992 NCAA National Champions
1993 NCAA National Champions....Methinks Michigan has a DAMN good shot!
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