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WWI A-Z

For each letter in the alphabet, guess these answers related to the First World War.
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Last updated: August 23, 2021
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First submittedApril 8, 2014
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Letter
Clue
Answer
A
This empire ceased to exist after the war
Austria-Hungary
B
Communist sect that took over Russia in 1917
Bolsheviks
C
Germany and its partners
Central Powers
D
Nearly 1000 French and British soldiers were executed for this crime
Desertion
E
Alliance between the United Kingdom, Russia, and France
Triple Entente
F
His assassination began the war
Franz Ferdinand
G
Failed ANZAC invasion site in Turkey
Gallipoli
H
German field marshal who later became President of Germany
Paul von Hindenburg
I
A global outbreak of this virus started in 1917 in a hospital in France
Influenza
J
1916 naval battle off the coast of Denmark
Battle of Jutland
K
Title of the German emperor
Kaiser
L
British colonel who helped to foment the Arab Revolt
T. E. Lawrence
M
A "miraculous" French victory at this river halted the German advance in 1914
Marne
N
Last czar of Russia
Nicholas II
O
Germany's Middle Eastern ally
Ottoman Empire
P
Top U.S. commander, known as "Black Jack"
Jack Pershing
Q
Chinese city which Japan seized from Germany
Qingdao
R
Family name of the the Red Baron
von Richthofen
S
River that was the site of a major British offensive in 1916
Somme
T
Term for a fortification dug in the ground on the front line
Trench
U
Term for a German submarine
U-boat
V
French city nicknamed "the meatgrinder"
Verdun
W
U.S. President during the war
Woodrow Wilson
X
France's prewar plan to fight off German invasion - it failed disastrously
Plan XVII
Y
Belgian city near where five bloody battles were fought
Ypres
Z
Type of German blimp used to bomb London
Zeppelin
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Level 77
Oct 14, 2019
Battle of Cer -

The Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary is the first battle of theWWI and the first Allied victory over the Central Powers.

Fun fact.

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Level 79
Oct 15, 2019
Never heard of Pershing before.
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Level 90
Oct 15, 2019
Pershing has been used frequently as the nomiker for military equipment - missiles, tanks, rifles. I think that must be where I pulled that bit of knowledge from. My American History classes always started to peter out at the turn of the 20th century, so we never really learned much detail about WWI. I know a lot about WWII, though, because it's been so much more omnipresent in popular culture.
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Level ∞
Oct 15, 2019
What's crazy is that over 100,000 U.S. soldiers died in just a few months in 1918. General Pershing didn't learn anything from mistakes made by other countries earlier in the war, and committed his soldiers to foolhardy over-the-top style charges.
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Level 78
Nov 11, 2022
The other countries didn't learn from their own mistakes. No one did.
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Level 67
Dec 18, 2019
Pershing is one of only two people to be given the U.S. army's highest possible rank, "General of the Armies" (sometimes called "six-star general to indicate its superiority over the five-star general rank, which was held by Eisenhower, among a few others). Pershing is the only person to be awarded the rank while living. The only other person to be awarded General of the Armies was George Washington, and that was a posthumous designation.
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Level 78
Dec 18, 2019
When Washington was alive he never was anything higher than a lieutenant general (three-star). He got a fourth, fifth, and sixth star a hundred and twenty years after he died.
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Level 75
Dec 18, 2019
That one was easy for me since he was born in my home state of Missouri and we had to study his life in history class.
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Level 88
Dec 30, 2019
Look at a picture of him someday. He has the straighest back posture in history. He exemplifies the saying about where West Point men keep the broom.
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Level 63
Oct 15, 2019
Zeppelins relied on internal frameworks to hold multiple individual gas cells and to maintain their aerodynamic shape. Blimps have only one large gas bag, no framework and rely on internal gas pressure to maintain their shape.

Both are "dirigibles" but otherwise the terms are not interchangeable.

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Level 67
Dec 18, 2019
This is good to know. I had always wondered about this.
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Level 75
Jun 28, 2023
That is correct. I'd say the term airship encompasses both blimps and Zeppelins.
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Level 72
Oct 15, 2019
Good quiz. Could do with another 30 seconds for me.

Ohh and a little more leeway on the spelling of the "Z" answer.

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Level 61
Oct 21, 2019
I filled in 'von Richtenstein' and it got accepted as a good answer.
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Level 78
Dec 18, 2019
Then the country between Austria and Switzerland ought to be accepted as 'Lichthofen'.
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Level 83
Dec 18, 2019
hmm... i wonder what happened to Plans I to XVI ...
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Level 65
Dec 18, 2019
LXIX
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Level 70
Dec 18, 2019
CDXX
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Level 88
Dec 30, 2019
At least von Schlieffen had the decency to die in 'XIII before his meat grinder plans were implemented.
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Level 65
Mar 10, 2022
Outdated. France updated her war plans against Germany every few years starting in the 1870s, to account for population changes and railroad development, as to better plan mobilisation and early operations. Plan XVII has been designed in 1913 adopted in early 1914 to replace the 1909 Plan XVI.
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Level 66
Nov 11, 2022
Surely that would eventually result in lower-quality war plans.
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Level 59
Dec 18, 2019
I'm not sure that "Failed ANZAC invasion site in Turkey" is a correct description, as Gallipoli was a British and French invasion site as well (there were, in fact, more British and French troops there than ANZAC troops). The whole operation was a failure, not just the ANZAC part of it.
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Level 88
Dec 30, 2019
Churchill deserves more blame than the Australian and New Zealand soldiers that's for certain.
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Level 46
Dec 18, 2019
Everyone with at least a mild education in the First World War would know that Franz Ferdinand's death merely was the final straw that pushed Austro-Hungary over the edge, making them declare war on Serbia. It would have happened without the assassination, albeit differently.
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Level ∞
Dec 18, 2019
Who knows what would have happened if the assassination had never happened? I think there's a very good chance that war would not have occurred.
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Level 54
Dec 15, 2022
Given the state of diplomatic affairs, the escalating arms race, jingoistic attitudes among many European states, and a sense of the inevitability of a war among leaders and diplomats almost assuredly some event would have triggered a war.
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Level 41
Dec 18, 2019
Got most of these right because of Battlefield 1 campaign and maps lmao
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Level 75
Dec 18, 2019
Thank you, Royal Guardsmen for giving me the Red Baron answer. (from Snoopy vs. the Red Baron) My favorite RG song is still Snoopy's Christmas, though. It's one of the Christmas songs I listen to each year.
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Level 56
Dec 31, 2019
zeplin as type-in for zeppelin?
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Level 72
Mar 26, 2020
Might allow Ieper for Ypres. But reason for this comment is to say that Zeppelins were not blimps. Zeppelins were rigid, blimps are not.
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Level 61
Nov 22, 2020
It is for letter Y so would make sense for answer to begin with Y
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Level 56
Jul 25, 2020
Another quiz , by I guess an American , your answer for L is not only wrong but YET again it's only time in quiz you used English not British . AND QUESTION YOU SHOULDN'T . was America still England's in 1917 . as Americans tend to say . So Think about that fact that english civil war had deciding battle at Gettysburg ???? Are you understanding the irony
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Level 60
Mar 30, 2021
I feel like there must have been a change in the quiz, as this comment has nothing to do with T.E.Lawrence. What was the question before?
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Level 57
Jun 28, 2021
It's a bit of a rant but main the point's a fair one (if I'm getting it right). Lawrence was born in Wales. His father was Irish, and his mother anglo-scottish, so calling him English is doubtful at best.
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Level 68
Aug 23, 2021
Changed to "British colonel."
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Level 78
Sep 21, 2021
I almost started trying random Roman numerals, but decided against it. Should've.
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Level 59
Jan 30, 2022
good quiz,though M was Mons but i ended up guessing Marne.
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Level 50
Jun 13, 2022
I can’t ever spell Bolsheviks from memory
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Level 70
Nov 11, 2022
It might be better to come up with a different "Q" question since Qingdao wasn't spelled that way at the time.
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Level 35
Nov 11, 2022
ok,I thought that the daily quiz will be about Poland indenpence day ;((
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Level 82
Nov 11, 2022
I would have gone with Plan IX
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Level 66
Nov 11, 2022
I suspect I'm not the only one who tried Hitler for the H clue.
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Level 89
Nov 11, 2022
I thought about it but I knew that was wrong.
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Level 55
Nov 11, 2022
100%
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Level 37
Nov 11, 2022
Sure, Plan XVII may have failed.

But on the other side of the coin, Germany's Schlieffen Plan was also a failure

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Level 32
Nov 12, 2022
put in more things about Serbia in the quiz
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Level 68
Nov 26, 2022
Admittedly, that would make for better representation of all the nations involved (there aren't really questions about Austria-Hungary or Italy either). However, popular knowledge about WWI is mostly centered on the Western Front, at least in the USA, and I'm not sure any answer about Serbia anywhere other than the S slot, like the battle of Cer mentioned at the top of the comments, would have a decent percentage.
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Level 61
Sep 18, 2023
Please accept "Defecting" for D?
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Level 66
Dec 28, 2023
Defecting and desertion are not the same thing

Desertion - abandoning the military

Defecting - abandoning your country in favor of an opposing one