Monday, May 16, 2011

Almost Daily Trivia Quiz #128 - Military Trivia Quiz Questions

Military trivia questions and answers.
  1. What marked the first time since the Revolution that the U.S.
    accepted direct financial aid to fight a war?
     
  2. What U.S. military base was won in the last major battle
    against Japan?
     
  3. What opportunistic country declared war on Japan five days
    before its surrender in 1945?
     
  4. What U.S. war broke out the same year the federal government
    first printed paper money?
     
  5. What country did ever-prudent King Farouk I declare war on in
    1945?
     
  6. What Bill Murray Ghostbusters term did Persian Gulf Warriors
    use to describe being hit by chemical weapons?
     
  7. What did an enemy have to be, for a U. S. soldier to call him
    a "believer" in the Vietnam War?
     
  8. What trials, beginning in 1945, spawned the phrase "I was only
    following orders"?
     
  9. What was the first war the U. S. took part in that was
    partially financed with lottery dollars?
     
  10. What southeastern state was the last to return to the Union
    after the Civil War.
     
  11. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in
    charge of combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
     
  12. Which two nations, constitutionally barred from military
    actions, sent money to support the Allied coalition against 
    Iraq in " 1991"?
     
  13. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
     
  14. What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class
    of 1829?
     
  15. What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
     
  16. What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized
    the killing of gypsies?
     
  17. What two continents have never been the site of a major
    military conflict?
     
  18. Who returned to Russia from exile in October, 1917?
     
  19. What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the
    Japanese attacked?
     
  20. What was the first war in which one jet plane shot down
    another/
     
  21. What so called "war" spawned the dueling slogans "Better Dead
    Than Red" and "Better Red Than Dead" in the 1950s?
     
  22. What modern vehicle was invented to circumvent trench
    warfare?
     
Answers to Daily Trivia Quiz # 128 - Military Trivia.
  1. The Persian Gulf War.
  2. Okinawa.
  3. The Soviet Union.
  4. The Civil War.
  5. Germany.
  6. Slimed.
  7. Dead.
  8. The Nuremberg war crimes trials.
  9. The Revolutionary War.
  10. Georgia. 
  11. Norman Schwarzkopf. 
  12. Germany and Japan.
  13. Dayton. 
  14. Robert E. Lee
  15. The Flying Fortress.
  16. Henry VIII.
  17. Antarctica and Australia.
  18. Vladimir  Ilyich Lenin.
  19. The Star-Spangled Banner.
  20. The Korean War. 
  21. The Cold War. 
  22. The Tank.