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1916 Trivia Quiz

My husband the history maven, aka cobb367, hasn't played long enough to create his own quizzes. As a follow-up to "1915," here is his contribution about a rather grim year. No baseball questions this time.

A multiple-choice quiz by lanfranco. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
lanfranco

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
203,967

Updated
Dec 03 21

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10

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Question 1 of 10

1. The 1916 Olympics, cancelled due to war, were scheduled to take place in what city? Hint

Amsterdam

Paris

Antwerp

Berlin

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Question 2 of 10

2. On February 26th, a new commander was given the task of stopping the German attack at Verdun. Who was the man who pledged "Ils ne passeront pas! (They shall not pass!)"? Hint

Henri Philippe Petain

Ferdinand Foch

Charles de Gaulle

Joseph-Jacques-Cesaire Joffre

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Question 3 of 10

3. On March 9, 1916, guerillas led by General Francisco "Pancho" Villa attacked what U.S. border town? Hint

El Paso Texas

Nogales, Arizona

Laredo, Texas

Columbus, New Mexico

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Question 4 of 10

4. On April 24th, Easter Monday, rebellious Irish nationalists proclaimed a new republic in defiance of British rule. On the steps of what Dublin building was the proclamation read? Hint

The Royal Barracks

City Hall

The General Post Office

Dublin Castle

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Question 5 of 10

5. On the afternoon of May 31st, British and German fleets squared off in a fierce but inconclusive encounter. By what name did this sea battle come to be known? Hint

Jutland

Falkland Islands

Dogger Bank

Heligoland Bight

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Question 6 of 10

6. On June 5th, The British cruiser HMS Hampshire struck a mine off the Orkney Islands and sank. What famous military man went down with the ship? Hint

Horatio Kitchener

John French

Edmund Allenby

Douglas Haig

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Question 7 of 10

7. On July 1st, the Battle of the Somme was launched, costing over 50,000 British casualties on the first day of fighting. Which of these was a landmark of the Somme campaign? Hint

Mametz Wood

Fort Vaux

ANZAC Cove

Polygon Wood

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Question 8 of 10

8. On November 7th, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Charles Evans Hughes. What was the electoral vote count? Hint

477-54

377-154

327-204

277-254

9. In the early morning hours of December 30th (December 16th, Julian Calendar), Grigori Rasputin, a self-styled monk and mystic who held influence over the Russian Imperial family, died after being poisoned, shot, beaten, and drowned by a group of assailants. Who was the leader of this clumsy assassination? Hint

Leon Trotsky

Alexander Kerensky

Felix Yusupov

Peter Stolypin

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which novel did James Joyce publish in 1916? Hint

The Last September

Finnegan's Wake

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Ulysses

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The 1916 Olympics, cancelled due to war, were scheduled to take place in what city?

Answer: Berlin

Antwerp hosted the Games in 1920, Paris in 1924, and Amsterdam in 1928. Berlin eventually staged the Games in 1936.

2. On February 26th, a new commander was given the task of stopping the German attack at Verdun. Who was the man who pledged "Ils ne passeront pas! (They shall not pass!)"?

Answer: Henri Philippe Petain

Petain, the hero of Verdun, later in his life became infamous as leader of the Nazi-puppet Vichy regime during World War II. Foch commanded armies at the Somme and Ypres and eventually was given unified command of all Allied troops in France. Joffre was Chief of the French General Staff when the war opened. De Gaulle served as a captain at Verdun, where he was wounded and captured by the Germans. (Much later, when Petain was convicted of treason in 1945, Charles de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment).

3. On March 9, 1916, guerillas led by General Francisco "Pancho" Villa attacked what U.S. border town?

Answer: Columbus, New Mexico

24 American soldiers and civilians died in Villa's raid on Columbus, prompting General John J. Pershing's punitive raid into Mexico.

4. On April 24th, Easter Monday, rebellious Irish nationalists proclaimed a new republic in defiance of British rule. On the steps of what Dublin building was the proclamation read?

Answer: The General Post Office

The General Post Office was the locus of what became known as the Easter Rebellion, which was crushed by British forces in less than a week. However, the British decision to execute the leaders of the rebellion galvanized Irish opinion and led to the eventual creation of the Irish Free State.

5. On the afternoon of May 31st, British and German fleets squared off in a fierce but inconclusive encounter. By what name did this sea battle come to be known?

Answer: Jutland

Jutland was the last great "set-piece" naval battle of World War I. British and German ships had fought each other at Heligoland Bight and the Falkland Islands in 1914, and at Dogger Bank in 1915.

6. On June 5th, The British cruiser HMS Hampshire struck a mine off the Orkney Islands and sank. What famous military man went down with the ship?

Answer: Horatio Kitchener

Lord Kitchener, who gained fame in the British reconquest of the Sudan in 1898, was on a mission to Russia when he died. Allenby, French, and Haig were high-ranking British generals who survived the war.

7. On July 1st, the Battle of the Somme was launched, costing over 50,000 British casualties on the first day of fighting. Which of these was a landmark of the Somme campaign?

Answer: Mametz Wood

Mametz Wood was a particular objective of the 38th (Welsh) Division, which lost about a third of its men in the attack. ANZAC Cove was at Gallipoli, Fort Vaux at Verdun, and Polygon Wood at Ypres.

8. On November 7th, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected President of the United States, defeating Charles Evans Hughes. What was the electoral vote count?

Answer: 277-254

This was an extremely close election. Wilson did not know the outcome until the next morning, when he learned that he had won California by some 4,000 votes.

Answer: Felix Yusupov

Prince Felix Usupov was the leader of a right-wing cabal who feared that Rasputin was wielding too much power over the family of Czar Nicholas II. Kerensky was the leader of the Provisional Government that replaced the Czar after his abdication in 1917 and was, in turn, supplanted by the Bolsheviks later that year. Stolypin, prime minister to Nicholas II, was assassinated in 1911. Trotsky, a leading Bolshevist, was also the victim of assassination, in his case by agents of Stalin in 1940.

10. Which novel did James Joyce publish in 1916?

Answer: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce published "Ulysses" in 1922 and "Finnegan's Wake" in 1939. "The Last September" (1929) was not written by Joyce, but by the Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen.

Source: Author lanfranco

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