Starting this month, I am planning on having weekly quizzes on different sections in history. There will be ten questions on each quiz. The quiz will be posted every Sunday and the deadline for answers is the next Sunday at 12:00 AM GMT
( 4 PM Sat. PST, 5 PM Sat. MST, 6PM Sat. CST, 7 PM Sat. EST)
The first quiz will be posted later today.
Everyone will Private Message the answers to me. Anyone posting answers on this thread will be disqualified from the rest of the month. At the end of each week, the top three people who answered correctly will get points. Three for the most correct, two for the second most correct, and one for the third most correct. If there is a tie in most correct, then both people get the points, so in theory, there could be more than three people receiving points in a given week. The person with the most points at the end of the month will be the Military History Contest Champion for (Insert Month here). If there is a tie there will be 5-question runoffs until one person does better than the other.
Also, you are on the honor system not to share answers with another person. If I find out you do, you will be disqualified from the competition for the month.

Here are the topics for December:
20th Century Russia/USSR (1st-8th)
Vietnam War (8th-15th)
Unconventional Warfare (15th-22nd)
World War 1- Unknown Fronts (22nd-29th)

Here are the first set of questions. Remember, if you post the answers on this thread, you will be disqualified. Send me the answers by Private Message or email them to me at bingitz2002@yahoo.com
Quiz runs until 12:00 AM GMT on Sunday, December 8.


1. Which Russian city was the ill fated Allied Expedition into Russia in 1919 based out of?

2. Approximately what percent of Russian marshals were killed in Stalin’s purges?

3. Which Central Asian country did the USSR invade in 1980 that caused the USA to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics?

4. Marshal Georgiy Zhukov and what other Marshal “raced to Berlin” during the closing months of the Second World War in Europe?

5. Which Eastern European country did Russia fight in 1920? (The war name would give it away)

6. Which two months in 1917 were the Russian Revolutions? (Note: Because the Russians still used the Julian calendar in 1917, there are two correct answers for the first month)

7. Who was the Russian spy in Japan the warned Stalin of Germany’s intentions to invade Russia and had eveidence that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor?

8. What year did the Russians explode their first nuclear bomb?

9. What was the name of the Treaty that made peace between Russia and Germany in 1917?

10. When did Russia invade Japan in
World War II?(Exact date needed)