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War 23 questions.

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Pub quiz question 8378 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose assassination led to the beginning of World War One?
Answer: A: Franz Ferdinand
Categories: War (4) Politics (4) 1910s (4)

Pub quiz question 7576 by pjh

Question: Q: Which drink is named after a Resistance hero, later mayor of Dijon?
Answer: A: Kir royale
Notes: *: After Canon Félix Kir
Categories: War (7) Drink (7)

Pub quiz question 8101 by pjh

Question: Q: The 1814 Treaty of Ghent ended a war between which states?
Answer: A: Britain and the US.
Categories: 1800s (8) War (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7528 by pjh

Question: Q: Which English composer died at the Battle of the Somme?
Answer: A: George Butterworth
Categories: War (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 8501 by pjh

Question: Q: In which year World War I begin?
Answer: A: 1914
Categories: History (1) 1910s (1) War (1)

Pub quiz question 7946 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sun Tzu; Clausewitz; Jomini; Liddell Hart?
Answer: A: Military theorists.
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) War (4)

Pub quiz question 7626 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ramillies; Oudenarde; Malplaquet; Blenheim?
Answer: A: Marlborough victories in war of the Spanish succession.
Notes: *: 1701-13
Categories: Connections (7) War (7) Politics (7) 1700s (7)

Pub quiz question 8090 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Shawcross (UK); Jackson (US); Rudenko (USSR); de Menthon (France)?
Answer: A: Chief allied prosecutors at Nuremburg trial.
Categories: Connections (9) Politics (9) War (8)

Pub quiz question 7962 by pjh

Question: Q: “Nansen” passports were issued by which organisation?
Answer: A: The League of Nations, in 1942, to stateless refugees.
Categories: Politics (8) 1940s (8) War (8)

Pub quiz question 7644 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bonanno; Gambino; Colombo; Genovese; Lucchese?
Answer: A: Mafia “Five Families” of New York.
Categories: War (6) America (7) Politics (6)