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Impossible Operation Barbarossa Quiz | 10 Questions | History

This quiz is focused on Operation Barbarossa. Have fun!

A multiple-choice quiz by paulus1943. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
paulus1943

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
34,323

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Impossible

Avg Score
3 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Who was the Soviet ambassador to Berlin on the eve of 'Barbarossa'?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname)

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Question 2 of 10

2. On what date did Operation Barbarossa start? Hint

June 22

July 22

June 23

June 30

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Question 3 of 10

3. In which city, across the Volga from Stalingrad, did Russian generals make a temporary headquarters and supply base?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who was the Commanding officer of the 62nd Russian Army, during the battle for Stalingrad? Hint

Krushchev

Chuikov

Yeremenko

Stalin

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Question 5 of 10

5. What did Russian soldiers call the Pak 3.7 mm anti-tank gun used by Romanian divisions on the Stalingrad front? Hint

the pop-gun

the doorknocker

the big gun

the Stalin organ

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Question 6 of 10

6. How many kills did the Russian sniper only known as 'Zikan' have? Hint

341

224

132

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Question 7 of 10

7. What were pupils of another famed Russian sniper, Vasily Zaitsev, called?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which Panzer Corps was sent to help Romanian General Bolshoy in repelling the Russian attack code-named 'Uranus'? Hint

37th

3rd

48th

95th

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was the code name for the German attempt at breaking the Sixth's Army encirclement at Stalingrad?

Answer: (Two orThree Words)

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Question 10 of 10

10. What was the codename for the Soviet Operation to counteract Operation Winter Storm?

Answer: (Two orThree Words)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who was the Soviet ambassador to Berlin on the eve of 'Barbarossa'?

Answer: Vladimir Dekanozov

Dekanozov was an ex-NKVD interrogator whose foreign experience was limited to interrogating foreign officials and purging officers.

2. On what date did Operation Barbarossa start?

Answer: June 22

Russians were so unprepared that they told units on the front line not to react to 'provocations' by the Germans, so many units didn't even fight.

3. In which city, across the Volga from Stalingrad, did Russian generals make a temporary headquarters and supply base?

Answer: Krasnaya Sloboda

One of the Generals in Stalingrad put his HQ under a supposedly empty oil tank. One time during a German shelling the tank was hit, and the Russians found out that it wasn't empty after all.

4. Who was the Commanding officer of the 62nd Russian Army, during the battle for Stalingrad?

Answer: Chuikov

Chuikov was the general who set up his headquarters underneath the oil tank, fortunately when it was hit, he was not in his HQ bunker.

5. What did Russian soldiers call the Pak 3.7 mm anti-tank gun used by Romanian divisions on the Stalingrad front?

Answer: the doorknocker

Many Romanian Divisions only had one of these guns. Russians called it 'the doorknocker' because it could not punch through T-34 armor.

6. How many kills did the Russian sniper only known as 'Zikan' have?

Answer: 224

He beat Vasily Zaitsev by almost 100 kills, he was not noted, because he was a Ukrainian, and the Russians did not like the other ethnic groups.

7. What were pupils of another famed Russian sniper, Vasily Zaitsev, called?

Answer: zaichata

Zaitsev called his pupils this name because of his childhod in the Ural Mountains, where newborn hares were abundant.

8. Which Panzer Corps was sent to help Romanian General Bolshoy in repelling the Russian attack code-named 'Uranus'?

Answer: 48th

This corps had little more than 100 operational vehicles.

9. What was the code name for the German attempt at breaking the Sixth's Army encirclement at Stalingrad?

Answer: Operation Winter Storm

Paulus actually requested the halt of this operation, because he feared that the rest of his comrades might suffer the same fate as his men.

10. What was the codename for the Soviet Operation to counteract Operation Winter Storm?

Answer: Operation Little Saturn

This operation pushed the German Army back so far, that they could not fly supplies to their trapped comrades at Stalingrad.

Source: Author paulus1943

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