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Name the Battle Trivia Quiz


I will give a brief description of the battle. Up to you to figure its name ...

A multiple-choice quiz by rachelene. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
rachelene
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
64,631
Updated
Feb 16 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
7 / 15
Plays
3869
Last 3 plays: Guest 166 (8/15), steepone (6/15), Guest 81 (3/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. After this engagement, the 'Hochseeflotte' (German High Seas Fleet) was never to leave port again during World War I, even if it could be argued that it won a fine tactical victory against all the odds. Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. After many setbacks, the Royal Canadian Regiment and militia detachments finally managed to quell the Metis Rebellion at which battle? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. One of the most costly battles ever in human lives, it bled both the French and German armies white through attrition over several months. Beyond strategical and tactical reason, the French resolved to hold it at all cost, and the Germans to take it whatever it took ... Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Known as the battle of the 3 emperors, Napoleon decisively defeated the Russian and Austrian armies there, forcing peace upon Austria. This battle was to be known as one of Napoleon greatest tactical successes Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. The greatest tank battle of the Second World War, it would be the last time the famed Panzer Divisions would be used in a strategically offensive role. This battle effectively broke the back of the Panzer arm of the Wehrmarcht Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. After failing to break Julius Caesar's siege, Gaulish Chieftains could not relieve Vercingetorix in his fortified town, and he was forced to surrender, bringing most of Gaul into Pax Romana Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Would have the battles of that war gone that way, it's possible that Canada would still be a French colony. British and American colonial troops under General Amherst really did their utmost trying to take that fort defended by French regular regiments under command of the Marquis de Montcalm. Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. In this battle of the War of Independence, the British sallying out of Boston may have won the day and taken the field, but this was a Pyrrhic victory, with the British suffering three times the number of casualties they inflicted. Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. A very costly victory, the fall of this town after a long siege ensured that the Confederacy was split into two parts unable to communicate with each other and helped ensure its final defeat. The losing general was Pemberton. Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. This was the first successful attack by *carrier-based* aircraft on a fleet moored in port and achieved fantastic results at very little cost. Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. One of Frederick II's greatest victories in the Seven Years' War in 1757. He attacked the Austrians from front and flank in oblique order and in the end routed them completely, taking over 20000 prisoners and 116 guns Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. The first recorded mass utilisation of a chemical weapon, the Germans pioneered its use, but soon all major World War I belligerents would use it. At which battle was asphyxiant gases used for the first time? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Another use of toxic gases in battle, this time in a much more recent context, that is, the Iran-Iraq war. And guess what, the villain using chemical weapons was none other than Saddam Hussein ... Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. A remarkable victory of the English longbow over French cavalry in the Hundreds Years' War, In this specific battle the French King, Jean le Bon, was actually captured. Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. In 732, Charles Martel, an ancestor of Charlemagne, stopped an Arab invasion led by Abd al Rahman near that town. This was the highwater mark of the Muslim incursions in France; after this battle they were soon forced back to the other side of the Pyrenees ... Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. After this engagement, the 'Hochseeflotte' (German High Seas Fleet) was never to leave port again during World War I, even if it could be argued that it won a fine tactical victory against all the odds.

Answer: Jutland

One of the most extensively studied battle of all times, and possibly one of the most spectacular. Would British shells not have proved defective, the outcome could have been quite different.
2. After many setbacks, the Royal Canadian Regiment and militia detachments finally managed to quell the Metis Rebellion at which battle?

Answer: Batoche

Gabriel Dumont, one of the native leaders, managed to escape to the United States, where he let a successful circus life.
3. One of the most costly battles ever in human lives, it bled both the French and German armies white through attrition over several months. Beyond strategical and tactical reason, the French resolved to hold it at all cost, and the Germans to take it whatever it took ...

Answer: Verdun

In terms of casualties, the battle was a disaster for both the French and German armies, and can hardly be called a victory by any, even though the French held the fortress of Verdun to the bitter end.
4. Known as the battle of the 3 emperors, Napoleon decisively defeated the Russian and Austrian armies there, forcing peace upon Austria. This battle was to be known as one of Napoleon greatest tactical successes

Answer: Austerlitz

In a fine example of the use of assault columns, the French broke through the center of the allied formations to split them, and then rolled them back piecemeal.
5. The greatest tank battle of the Second World War, it would be the last time the famed Panzer Divisions would be used in a strategically offensive role. This battle effectively broke the back of the Panzer arm of the Wehrmarcht

Answer: Kursk

At Prokhorovka, more than 1400 armored vehicles clashed head-on and fought for the whole day in a ferocious melee that saw destruction of about 600 of the steel monsters, losses being comparable on each side.
6. After failing to break Julius Caesar's siege, Gaulish Chieftains could not relieve Vercingetorix in his fortified town, and he was forced to surrender, bringing most of Gaul into Pax Romana

Answer: Alesia

Vercingetorix was paraded in Rome, and later put to death, as it was custom with the enemies of Rome.
7. Would have the battles of that war gone that way, it's possible that Canada would still be a French colony. British and American colonial troops under General Amherst really did their utmost trying to take that fort defended by French regular regiments under command of the Marquis de Montcalm.

Answer: Carillon

With 6000 regulars and 9000 colonial militia, Amherst was driven in attacking before his siege train arrived under the false belief that the 3600 French Regulars defending Fort Carillon were to be reinforced. The British-American assault was bloodily repulsed.
8. In this battle of the War of Independence, the British sallying out of Boston may have won the day and taken the field, but this was a Pyrrhic victory, with the British suffering three times the number of casualties they inflicted.

Answer: Bunker Hill

It was a very costly tactical victory for the British, and strategically, it achieved nothing and may even have worsened British prospects.
9. A very costly victory, the fall of this town after a long siege ensured that the Confederacy was split into two parts unable to communicate with each other and helped ensure its final defeat. The losing general was Pemberton.

Answer: Vicksburg

One of Grant's greatest victories, where he had to maintain the siege while keeping relief columns at bay. In the end General Pemberton had to surrender his starved army of 31,000 troops with 172 cannons. This was possibly the greatest Confederate disaster of the whole Civil War.
10. This was the first successful attack by *carrier-based* aircraft on a fleet moored in port and achieved fantastic results at very little cost.

Answer: Taranto

With fewer than 30 Swordfish biplanes, attacking in two waves, the British incapacitated half of the battleships of the Italian fleet, and lost only 2 planes in the attack. This airborne attack was one of the main sources of inspiration for Admiral Yamamoto when he planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
11. One of Frederick II's greatest victories in the Seven Years' War in 1757. He attacked the Austrians from front and flank in oblique order and in the end routed them completely, taking over 20000 prisoners and 116 guns

Answer: Leuthen

Death toll was about 7000 on each side, quite an indication of the violence and biterness of that battle.
12. The first recorded mass utilisation of a chemical weapon, the Germans pioneered its use, but soon all major World War I belligerents would use it. At which battle was asphyxiant gases used for the first time?

Answer: Second Ypres

In 45 minutes 5000 died, and 15000 others were to die of poisoning in the days, weeks, months after. The Germans had to wait for favorable winds before they launched the attack, and luckily for them the winds didn't change ...
13. Another use of toxic gases in battle, this time in a much more recent context, that is, the Iran-Iraq war. And guess what, the villain using chemical weapons was none other than Saddam Hussein ...

Answer: Howeiza

A sad episode of the long and very murderous war between Iran and Iraq (1980-1989). At Howeiza gas was delivered on target thru artillery shells. The Iran-Iraq War cost about a million lives, 600,000 of the dead being on the Iranian side.
14. A remarkable victory of the English longbow over French cavalry in the Hundreds Years' War, In this specific battle the French King, Jean le Bon, was actually captured.

Answer: Poitiers

The French forces were vastly superior numerically the the Black Prince's force, and he tried to avoid the battle before it was forced on him. He did choose his defensive position well however, and French cavalry was forced to dismount to attempt assaulting the English field fortifications. Lumbering in their very heavy armor suits, they fell under hailstorms of English arrows, and Jean le Bon was captured.
15. In 732, Charles Martel, an ancestor of Charlemagne, stopped an Arab invasion led by Abd al Rahman near that town. This was the highwater mark of the Muslim incursions in France; after this battle they were soon forced back to the other side of the Pyrenees ...

Answer: Poitiers

The actual battle, a fairly limited engagement--it was a Muslim raiding party more than an invasion army--, was fought at Moussais, between Poitiers and Tours. By 740 most of what is now France was freed from the Muslim armies.
Source: Author rachelene

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