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Random WWII Quotes Trivia Quiz

There are many well known and less well known quotes from WWII that I find fascinating. Some of these are fairly easy and others difficult.

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

Author
HurricaneBill

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
335,041

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. On June 6, 1944, who said "Never have so few been commanded by so many"? Hint

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Gen. Charles de Gaulle

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who said this about what? "I had hoped we were hurling a wildcat onto the shore, but all we got was a stranded whale". Hint

Maj. Gen. John Hamilton Roberts - Dieppe Raid

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery - Normandy's Gold Beach

Winston Curchill - the Allied landings at Anzio and Nettuno, Italy

General Omar Bradley - Normandy's Omaha Beach

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who said, "I do not understand the words, but by God I like your spirit"? Hint

Mao Zedong

Josef Stalin

Chiang Kai-Shek

"Smiling Albert" Kesselring

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who said, "It is more likely that the United States ... will be attacked by the not-well-known but very warlike inhabitants of the planet Mars"? Hint

German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering

American aviation hero Charles Lindburgh

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who said, "[The] British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration [are] the three most important groups ... pressing ... toward war"? Hint

German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering

Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"? Hint

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Prime Minister Winston Churchill

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who said, "I gave the gift of myself to France ... The fighting must stop"? Hint

Marshal Henri Petain

French resistance leader Jean Moulin

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle

French Gen. Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who said, "If the Germans get here they will never go home"? Hint

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Marshal of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle

Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who said, "All the same, a formidable people, a very great people ... to have pushed this far"? About whom? Hint

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who said the following about whom? "His ardor and daring inflicted grievous disasters upon us ... [He is] a great general." Hint

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery about Gen. Omar Bradley

General Dwight D. Eisenhower about Field Marshal Montgomery

Prime Minister Winston Churchill about Erwin Rommel

French Gen. Charles de Gaulle about Gen. Philippe Leclerc

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. On June 6, 1944, who said "Never have so few been commanded by so many"?

Answer: Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor

Taylor said this when he and his staff of the 101st Airborne landed amid a small group of enlisted paratroopers during the Normandy airborne drop.

2. Who said this about what? "I had hoped we were hurling a wildcat onto the shore, but all we got was a stranded whale".

Answer: Winston Curchill - the Allied landings at Anzio and Nettuno, Italy

Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas was in charge of this operation. It was to have outflanked the German Winter Line. The landings were unopposed and a jeep patrol even got to the outskirts of Rome. However, Lucas spent days consolidating and planning. This allowed German Gen. Kesselring to move up and surround the beachhead. Lucas was eventually relieved and replaced with Gen. Truscott.

3. Who said, "I do not understand the words, but by God I like your spirit"?

Answer: Josef Stalin

During a meeting in Moscow, Stalin said this to Churchill. Stalin, it seems, had insulted the ability of the British to fight. Whereupon, Churchill burst into a torrent of oratory that was so forceful and fast the interpreters were unable to keep up.

4. Who said, "It is more likely that the United States ... will be attacked by the not-well-known but very warlike inhabitants of the planet Mars"?

Answer: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Mussolini said this in an address to the Italian people on February 23, 1941 in which he denied that the Axis powers had any plans to attack the U.S.

5. Who said, "[The] British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration [are] the three most important groups ... pressing ... toward war"?

Answer: American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh

Lindbergh said this during an address in Des Moines, Iowa on September 12, 1941. This was the worst side of Lindbergh; he performed valuable and unheralded service later as a pilot in combat situations.

6. Who said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"?

Answer: Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Churchill said this in remarks about the British victory in Egypt on November 10, 1942.

7. Who said, "I gave the gift of myself to France ... The fighting must stop"?

Answer: Marshal Henri Petain

P�tain, upon becoming Premier on May 17, 1940, as German troops were overwhelming the French.

8. Who said, "If the Germans get here they will never go home"?

Answer: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini

Mussolini said this in 1940 while discussing the "advantage" of having German troops on Italian soil.

9. Who said, "All the same, a formidable people, a very great people ... to have pushed this far"? About whom?

Answer: French Gen. Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle, when visiting Moscow. The rest of the quote is "I don't speak of the Russians, I speak of the Germans."

10. Who said the following about whom? "His ardor and daring inflicted grievous disasters upon us ... [He is] a great general."

Answer: Prime Minister Winston Churchill about Erwin Rommel

Churchill's opinion of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Source: Author HurricaneBill

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