From: kenneth@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.trivia
Subject: Re: WORLD WAR II TRIVIA QUIZ: 2
Date: 13 Apr 92 11:25:03 GMT

Annserz 2 da qwiz:


> 1) The British said  there were 3 things wrong with U.S. troops in England.
> What were they? (1/3 pt each correct response)

overpaid, oversexed, and over here.  
 
> 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.

Hm.  How quickly we forget Mr. Laettner had team-mates. :)
The answer is Herman Lang.
 
> 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?

Phil Rizzuto
 
> 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)

OOOOOOOO, the controversial question.  :)
It was Major Ivan N. Khozedub of the Soviet Air Farce, I mean Force. :)
 
> 5) What was the U.S. Navy slang term for a torpedo?

It was actually more precisely a "Tin" Fish, not just simply a "fish."
Since the term could be shortened to just "fish," I gave credit either way.
 
> 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!

The Shinano. BIG sucker.  :)
 
> 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?

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

KDHP.  Most people who answered this question said it was SOS, and one
person added (Save our Ship) afterwards.  Just as a sideline, SOS was
never intended to mean Save Our Ship or anything else other than "Yikes!"
or something.  SOS is 3 dots, 3 dashes, 3 dots, and was institued because
it was easy to remember and to transmit.  It is a generic distress call.

> 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?

Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946)
 
> 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)

Oak Ridge, Tn.  Most people that anwswered this question got it right.
 
> Bonus: Speaking of explosions, a Brigadier General commanded the Manhattan
> Project throughout the war.  What is his name?

Leslie Groves.  A couple of people pointed out that Paul Newman played him
in the movie "Fat Man and the Little Boy."
 


Ken