Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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T | Type of ditch dug to protect troops | Trench | 86%
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I | Outbreak of this disease immediately after the war infected 500 million people | Influenza | 80%
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M | Poison gas first used by the Germans in WWI | Mustard | 80%
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N | The last Emperor of All Russia before his abdication | Nicholas II | 80%
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N | Stretch of supposedly uncrossable land between enemy lines | No Man's Land | 80%
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R | Country which pulled out of the war early following a revolution | Russia | 80%
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T | Armoured fighting vehicle that saw its first main use in WWI | Tank | 80%
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T | Title of the king of Russia during WWI | Tsar | 80%
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A | Empire spanning central and eastern Europe, dissolved after the war | Austria-Hungary | 77%
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D | The naval Battle of Jutland took place off the coast of this country | Denmark | 77%
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O | Empire that lost 20% of its prewar population, giving it the highest death toll of all belligerents | Ottoman | 74%
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S | One of the bloodiest battles in human history, and site of the worst day in the history of the British Army | Somme | 74%
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W | German Kaiser during the war | Wilhelm II | 69%
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E | Alliance consisting of France, Russia, and the UK: the Triple _______ | Entente | 60%
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G | Turkish peninsula and site of disastrous Allied campaign | Gallipoli | 60%
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N | This African country, known as German South-West Africa, passed into South African ownership during WWI | Namibia | 57%
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N | This body of water was the main theatre for naval action | North Sea | 57%
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I | Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck remarked that Britain couldn't have come through WWI and WWII if they hadn't had the army from this colonial property | India | 51%
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E | Britain inflicted this punishment on 332 soldiers for desertion | Execution | 40%
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M | River in France and site of two WWI battles, in 1914 and 1918 | Marne | 40%
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A | The signing of this brought an end to conflict between the Allies and Germany | Armistice | 37%
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C | Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-1915 | Churchill | 37%
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N | The rise of this ideology across Europe has been partly blamed for WWI | Nationalism | 37%
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A | Forested region of Belgium and site of one of the first WWI battles | Ardennes | 34%
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W | New country founded by the German Revolution immediately following the war | Weimar Republic | 34%
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W | The 400-mile front spanning from the North Sea to the Swiss border | Western Front | 34%
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Y | Site of five battles between German and Allied armies, resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties | Ypres | 29%
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A | Army corps consisting of troops from two Southern Hemisphere nations of the British Empire | Anzac | 26%
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E | British nurse _____ Cavell, known for helping both sides indiscriminately | Edith | 20%
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H | Field Marshal who commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the war | Haig | 20%
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H | German defensive line built during 1916-1917 | Hindenburg Line | 20%
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E | A substitute good, inferior to the one it replaces; often referring to foodstuffs | Ersatz | 14%
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O | Belgian port held by the Germans, subject to two Allied naval assaults | Ostend | 11%
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T | Period of severe food shortages inflicted on German cities in 1916-17 by the British navy | Turnip Winter | 9%
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Quote | Machines went to war and men got in the way | 6%
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