To mark yesterday's VE day, I compiled a special quiz. Here are the answers:
1. What does the abbreviation VE stand for?
Victory in Europe Day
2. When did the Second World War start?
1939
3. Which European countries stayed ‘neutral’ in the Second World War?
Switzerland, Spain and Sweden.
4. How old Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II - then Princess Elizabeth - on VE Day?
19 years old
5. The invasion of which country triggered Britain and France to declare war against Germany?
Poland
6. In which two Japanese cities were the first 2 atomic bombs dropped? Hiroshima and Nagasaki
7. In which French region were the D-Day landings?
Normandy
8. What name was given to the dead man, deliberately dropped into the sea to be found by German agents, who carried false papers to deceive the Axis powers about Allied intentions to attack Europe?
The Man Who Never Was
9. The battle for what city was the turning point in the war on the Eastern Front?
Stalingrad
10. What was the name of the German airforce?
Luftwaffe
11. Which US naval base did Japan bomb which then forced the US to enter World War 2?
Pearl Harbour
12. Which Holocaust camp had the highest death toll?
Auschwitz
12. Which were the two main RAF aircraft used in the Battle of Britain? Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire
14. What was the first Nazi concentration camp?
Dachau
15. Which mathematician developed a device capable of deciphering the German Enigma code?
Alan Turing.
