WWI A-Z

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.

Spelling in clue of L - "Revolut" = Revolt? Revolution?

Emperor is spelled incorrectly for K.

Never heard of Pershing before.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Corrections: 'Alliance the' to 'Alliance between the', and 'emporer' to 'emperor'

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.

This is good to know. I had always wondered about this.

Good quiz. Could do with another 30 seconds for me.

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

I filled in 'von Richtenstein' and it got accepted as a good answer.

Then the country between Austria and Switzerland ought to be accepted as 'Lichthofen'.

hmm... i wonder what happened to Plans I to XVI ...

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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.

Got most of these right because of Battlefield 1 campaign and maps lmao

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.

zeplin as type-in for zeppelin?

It is for letter Y so would make sense for answer to begin with Y

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

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?