Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
JetPunk Shop
Random Quiz
Dark Mode
Deadliest Battles throughout History
List the two deadliest battles from a wide range of wars
Only Battles, not campaigns
Includes casualties from both sides and civilians
Rate:
Last updated: July 10, 2012
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | July 10, 2012 |
| Times taken | 1,381 |
| Average score | 28.6% | Report this quiz | Report |
5:00
Enter answer here
0
/ 14 guessed
Time Used
00:00
Best Time
00:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
|
Ozchris
+1
Level 33
Feb 6, 2013
It's a great idea for a quiz. I do think though that your choice of wars could be changed and/or expanded. "Deadliest battles throughout history" is a great title, but it's let down a bit by some battles that would hardly merit the term 'battle' when compared to some of the really huge battles from history... even going back as far as the Egyptians/Assyrians, Greeks etc these are comparitively tiny. To say nothing of some of these Chinese wars... the mongol invasions... some of the fighting in South America etc. I'd highly encourage you to do a sequel!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Feb 11, 2013
for once I agree with Ozchris. The title is deceptive, and though taking away the Battle of Bunker Hill would remove one of the few answers I got right, it certainly looks like a barely a scuffle when stood up next to the siege of Stalingrad. Even some famous WW2 battles that were not included make Bunker Hill or Yorktown look insignificant, like the Normandy invasion. Then if you look at older battles you see things like the Mongol conquest of Baghdad with over 2 million casualties, or the Battle of Kalinga with 1.5 to 2 million, and what about the siege of Leningrad and Operation Barbarossa? Those are from wars that you included in the quiz but resulted in more casualties than Stalingrad by most estimates. I know it's very hard to get consistent numbers... estimates vary wildly depending on which account you're going by and some include civilians and collateral deaths while others do not...
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Feb 11, 2013
there's also the problem that sometimes casualties means dead (as implied in the title) and other times it merely means wounded or missing.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Feb 11, 2013
I thought Antietam would be on here but I guess that only has the record for most killed on a single day (in American history), and you already have two other battles from the Civil War.
Tiger1313
+1
Level 49
Jan 13, 2015
Battle of Dien Bien Phu was actually part of the French Indochina War not the Vietnam War.
verdun
+1
Level 71
Dec 14, 2016
Verdun?
markasol
+1
Level 75
Nov 4, 2017
The ranking for WW1 battles is wrong and throws the whole quiz into doubt. While the casualty figures for Somme and First Marne are correct, the Somme was only the 3rd deadliest battle and First Marne the 7th deadliest battle. The highest casualties were incurred in the 2 main battles of the last year of the war - the failed German Kaiserschlacht or Spring Offensive (1.5m) and the victorious Allied 100 days offensive from Amiens to the Armistice (1.8m). I suspect there are inaccuracies in the other wars I don't know as well...
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
Copyright H Brothers Inc, 2008–2024
Contact Us | Go To Top | View Desktop Site