While it turned out to be wishful thinking, World War I was nicknamed this:
The War to End All Wars
War of the Roses
The War of Smiles
The War of Brotherly Love
Question 2/10
Although he never said, “Take me out,” the 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of this Archduke of Austria tipped an already boiling pot and precipitated a chain reaction of events that started WWI.
Marshall Foch
Ralph Jozef
Franz Ferdinand
Leopold Telesphore
Question 3/10
Not something you’d put on a sandwich, this poison gas was first used in 1917 by the Imperial German Army against British troops at Ypres, Belgium.
Pepper spray
Mustard gas
Chlorine gas
Unleaded gas
Question 4/10
Marking a change in naval tactics and strategy, Germany was the first country to make brutally effective use of these to take stealthy control of Atlantic shipping lanes.
Airplanes
Mines
Rockets
Submarines
Question 5/10
Inhospitable and filled with barbed wire and unexploded ordinance, the area between the Allied trenches and the German trenches was called this:
The Danger Zone, Maverick!
The Dead Zone
No man's land
The DMZ
Question 6/10
This disorder – an adverse psychological reaction to the trials of warfare – was first recognized in WWI and has since been redefined and replaced with the broader term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Trench mouth
Melancholia
The blues
Shell shock
Question 7/10
He never had a dogfight with Snoopy, but German ace pilot Manfred von Richthofen WAS credited with 80 air combat victories and was better known by this nickname:
The Blue Max
Wrongway Corrigan
The Red Baron
Pappy Boyington
Question 8/10
No bueno. In January 1917 British intelligence intercepted the “Zimmerman Telegram” in which the German Foreign Secretary promised land and monetary aid if this country invaded the United States in the event that they entered the war.
Venezuela
Canada
Spain
Mexico
Question 9/10
Unable to let it be and hoping to hasten Russia's withdrawal from the war, in April 1917 Germany arranged for the return of this revolutionary Bolshevik leader to Russia in hopes that he would overthrow the government. And he did, in October.
Bernie Sanders
Hernán Cortés
Vladimir Lenin
Friedrich Engels
Question 10/10
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, better known by this stage name, was a Dutch exotic dancer who faced the firing squad after being convicted in 1917 of espionage for Germany.
World War I was one of the most politically complicated and strategically confusing wars ever fought. It was a conflict of empires and borders. It saw the advent of sweeping technological and military advances – the machine gun, poison gas, the airplane, the tank – that changed the very definition of battle. It was the first “modern war”. That’s a whole lot to digest! So what do you think you know? Well, before you go “over there”, stay here a minute and take this quiz to find out your WWI IQ!
