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"If you are stuck at home and bored like me. How about exercising the old grey cells? I have for a number of years run quiz nights and couple of times a year. I was due to do one tomorrow which is now cancelled So I have a bank of questions sitting in my computer's hard drive. They are quite eclectic in their nature. I am thinking I could put up a set of questions for which you write down your answers. After 30mins or so I will put up the answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS. before I post the right answers. You mark your own answers and post your score. I will then record the scores and at the end of the ""lockdown"" we will see who is WHO's brainbox supreme. Obiviously no looking up the answers (you only cheat yourselves) Word of warning these won't be easy questions as they have been devised for teams of six. Forming teams on here might be too problematic. So I'll try to pick out the easier questions. Any interest?"

"""Would be interested to know how many of the hero cities you and Syd knew or guessed"" Went for the obvious ones of Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow, then added all the cities I could think of in the western end of the country. Got lucky with (ironically) Kiev and Odessa. Science plus inspired guesswork!"

10 for me thank you Rios

"I'll be travelling to Croatia on Friday with my two lovely girls, I'd like to do a Croatia or Yugoslavia quiz, but when I started reading up on it, the whole thing confused the fuck out of me, Even when I asked locals they could only offer certain angles and perspectives and admit that the history is very confusing."

Friday's quiz written already Going to watch a show in London Thursday before the game with family (a fuck up with timing on my part) busy day for me and the boy. Not saying which one as its a quiz answer Anyway it's about stage shows / musicals

"Tex, smart move - thats what I assumed most people would do. I can never remember more than 8 or 9. If you are interested in that part of the world, well worth looking up Bald and Bankrupt on Youtube, very amusing English bloke who travels all over the old soviet empire in search of traces of remnants of the USSR. Nice, funny bloke"

Rios I got luck with the cities… I went thru a list of big/important USSR cities…and 6 were correct Lucky informed guessing…

"Tex Good score mate, would be interested to know how many of the hero cities you and Syd knew or guessed. Its always been an ambition of mine to visit all of them and write a book about them. Probably never happen though."

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"1) The treaty between USSR and Germany was signed 23rd August 1939 and was a non-aggression pact, including a secret protocol (not confirmed until the Nuremberg trials) and was named after the two countries' foreign ministers, what was it called? Go fuck yourself?"

"Syd Reckon you're right, it should be two points for getting both (I worked on the premise that anybody who could remember the treaty name would always know both). Cough, dunno, I thought Il Duce was hanged from a lamp-post until I researched this quiz, looks like quite a few were hanged upside down after being shot."

14 with Mussolini and 5 cities for Q10. Gutted I guessed Adolfs birth place wrong or i would have scored for each question. Only 1 point for both Molotov & Ribbentrop? Pah!

"Wasn't Clara Petacci, Il Duce's mistress, that was hung upside down from a lamp post?"

"7 with Mussolini, thank you."

"Cough is correct as usual. I thought it would be good to put the lamp post myth to bed, and also to blame nasty esso, Greta was right."

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A very poor 6 for me. No answer for question 5? Thanks Rios...

It's Mussolini and 13 for me. Cheers rio son

It's Mussolini and 13 for me. Cheers rio son

"rios, answer to number five thank you, please?"

"Potential 21 points there, but will be impressed if anyone gets more than 10 points"

"1) The treaty between USSR and Germany was signed 23rd August 1939 and was a non-aggression pact, including a secret protocol (not confirmed until the Nuremberg trials) and was named after the two countries' foreign ministers, what was it called? Molotov-Ribbentrop pact 2) A turning point on the eastern front occurred in one of the world's biggest ever tank and infantry battles. It was the first time in WW2 that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could breakthrough enemy lines and penetrate to its strategic depths. How is this battle better known? The battle of Kursk 3) Famous cheese-eater, born in Lille in 1890, wounded in the knee by a bullet and bayonetted in the thigh during WW1, he was captured and spent 32 months in POW camps where he learnt fluent german. He was eventually exiled to London in June 1940, who was he? De Gaulle 4) Who was in charge of Japanese Imperial forces and commanded them (2 points for both) Emperor Hirohito (Supreme Commander) and Hideke Tojo 5) Which WW2 leader was hanged from the roof of an esso petrol station after being shot? 6) Which WW2 British fighter ace lost his legs in a flying accident in 1931, he managed several aerial victories before being shot down and captured in Nazi occupied France and was sent to Colditz after several attempts at escape? Douglas Bader 7) Where was Adolf Hitler born? a) Brana Am Inn b) Leonding c) Lambach a) Brauda Am Inn 8) What hobby did Churchill and Hitler both enjoy? Painting (watercolours) 9) The Germans used the tactic of overwhelming speed and force, better known as? Blitzkrieg 10) The USSR refer to WW2 as 'The Great Patriotic War', for up to 12 bonus points how many 'Hero Cities' can you name? Brest (Brest-Livotsk), Minsk, Kiev, Odessa, Moscow, Murmansk, Stalingrad (Volgograd), Smolensk, Leningrad (St Petersberg), Sevastopol, Novorossiysk, Tula,"

"Should have done better at this considering I'm in the middle of watching a documentary on Netflix called ""How the Nazis Lost the War"". Quite fascinating learning about the mistakes made and especially the focus on bigger and better weapons (that quite often didn't work)rather than spending finance on the usual weapons that did!"

"WW2 Sorry its late, emergency at work. 1) The treaty between USSR and Germany was signed 23rd August 1939 and was a non-aggression pact, including a secret protocol (not confirmed until the Nuremberg trials) and was named after the two countries' foreign ministers, what was it called? 2) A turning point on the eastern front occurred in one of the world's biggest ever tank and infantry battles. It was the first time in WW2 that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could breakthrough enemy lines and penetrate to its strategic depths. How is this battle better known? 3) Famous cheese-eater, born in Lille in 1890, wounded in the knee by a bullet and bayonetted in the thigh during WW1, he was captured and spent 32 months in POW camps where he learnt fluent german. He was eventually exiled to London in June 1940, who was he? 4) Who was in charge of Japanese Imperial forces and commanded them (2 points for both) 5) Which WW2 leader was hanged from the roof of an esso petrol station after being shot? 6) Which WW2 British fighter ace lost his legs in a flying accident in 1931, he managed several aerial victories before being shot down and captured in Nazi occupied France and was sent to Colditz after several attempts at escape? 7) Where was Adolf Hitler born? a) Brana Am Inn b) Leonding c) Lambach 8) What hobby did Churchill and Hitler both enjoy? 9) The Germans used the tactic of overwhelming speed and force, better known as? 10) The USSR refer to WW2 as 'The Great Patriotic War', for up to 12 bonus points how many 'Hero Cities' can you name?"

"6, thanks Zico."