A quiz: IdentifyThe WWII leader

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:29 am

This is pretty easy, but give it a try anyway, it's fun....

http://www.quia.com/quiz/105597.html

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:16 am

Way too easy

They need to put some more questions in there like:

The Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in the European Theater. He eventually became a US President.
[a] Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
[c] George S Patton
[d] Dwight D Eisenhower

(OK, that one was too easy, but...)

A famous German general that developed the theories of mobile warfare that would later become Blitzkrieg in WWII. (Hint, its not actually who you think it is )
[a] Heinz Guderian
Erwin Rommel
[c] von Seeckt
[d] Adolph Hitler

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:38 am

yawn

100%

tooE-Z

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:29 pm

Way too easy

Yeah, I know... but it's geared towards Middle School kids so no big surprise that it would be too easy for most of us here. I think you can develop your own quizzes at this site, so if I get time maybe I'll put something together that will really test some of you guys.

Oh, BTW, I believe your German General would be Guderian, no?

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:37 am

All right, if you want something really

difficult - here you are...

1. The Marshal of Poland, the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army during the Nazi and Soviet invasion and the lost September Campaign 1939 (he studied at the same Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow as Wieslaw but earlier).
[a] Harold Alexander
Edward Rydz-Smigly
[c] Dwight Eisenhower
[d] Charles de Gaulle

2. The Polish General, the first Polish Prime Minister in Exile, the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces since 1939. Killed in the B-24 crash (probably the assasination) in Gibraltar in July 1943 (he learned in the same city - Rzeszow - where Wieslaw lives).
[a] Wladyslaw Sikorski
George Marshall
[c] Philippe Leclerc
[d] Hugh Dowding

3. The General, the next Polish Commander-in-Chief, dismissed in September 1944 as a result of the British pressure (because of his "too" anti-Soviet position).
[a] Maurice Gamelin
Archibald Wavell
[c] Kazimierz Sosnkowski
[d] William Halsey

4. The Polish General, the Commander of the Polish Home Army (AK), ordered the Warsaw Uprising 1944 to begin. After the capitulation a prisoner of war. The Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces until 1946.
[a] Frank Fletcher
Douglas MacArthur
[c] Alan Brooke
[d] Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski

5. The most famous Polish commander of WW 2. The Polish General, after the September campaign jailed and tortured by Soviets, released after the German attack on Russia. Builder of the Polish Army which went out from Russia to Iran, Iraq and Palestine. Commander of the Polish 2nd Corps in Italy which conquered the Monte Cassino hill and liberated Bologna, Ancona etc.
[a] Wladyslaw Anders
Pietro Badoglio
[c] Omar Bradley
[d] Bernard Montgomery

6. The General, Commander of the Polish Independent Parachute Brigade. Strongly criticised the Montgomery’s plan of the Operation Market-Garden. He and his Brigade fought in Driel and Grave. Played by Gene Hackman in the movie "A Bridge Too Far".
[a] Chester Nimitz
Stanislaw Sosabowski
[c] Brian Horrocks
[d] Gustaf Mannerheim

7. The Polish General, as a Commander of the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade fought in Poland 1939 and in France 1940. His 1st Polish Armoured Division was the famous "cork in the neck of the Falaise pocket" and then liberated Belgium and Holland and captured Wilhelmshaven (he lived and fought i.a. in Rzeszow – Wieslaw’s home city).
[a] Roy Urquhart
Stanislaw Maczek
[c] Guy Simonds
[d] George Patton

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:52 am

Well, my Polish history is a little rusty but I'll take a stab at it.... my answers are as follows:

1) B
2) A
3) C
4) D
5) A
6) B
7) B

How did I do..??

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:08 am

Ostketten,

you are absolutely correct! Congratulations!

Wieslaw

GooglyDoogly · Post by **GooglyDoogly** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:08 am

I know nothing of Polish military history...but I got all of them correct...by simply choosing the names that sounded Polish.

Is that cheating?

Wieslaw · Post by **Wieslaw** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:36 am

GooglyDoogly,

it's not any cheating! I don't believe you knew nothing of Polish military history. But if there is somebody who really don't know anything, my intention was to make him a little familiar with it