1st Cumulative WW1 History Quiz.

[classical_hero]

Here are the rules :-
1) A asks a question, the rest will try to answer.
2) A must confirm which answer is correct.
3) Person (say B) with confirmed correct answer then asks the next question.
4) A cannot play again until B's turn is over (to prevent the thread turning into a 2 person spam party).
5) Repeat.
6) If person asking question doesn't login to confirm answers within 72 hrs of his question being posted, any one can ask a new question.
7) If no one can answer question within 72 hrs or can't get the right one, questioner can ask again.
8) Preferably no Net or book searches.

Actually my question is a series of questions to be exact but it basically refering to one event.

1) What day is ANZAC day celebrated?
2) What does ANZAC stand for?
3) What countries were involved in this day?
4) Where did the fighting occur? By this I am the name of the lace, not just the country.
5) What is so unique about this celebration?

 

[Hornblower]

Hmmm being an Aussie perhaps it is unfair that I answer but for the sake of kicking off the thread .... why not?
1. April 25 every year
2. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
3. Australia and New Zealand and 4 pacific island nations (if you are just referring to the commemoration) additionally;
3b. The other nations involved in the history of the day: Britain, India, France, Newfoundland (later Canada), The Ottoman Empire (later Turkey) and Germany (to a minimal extent due to a few German advisors in the Dardanelles advising on Naval gunnery.)
4. April 1915 Turkey. The Dardanelles campaign. Australian landings taking place at ANZAC cove on the Gallipoli peninsular.
5. Initially a commemoration of the landings by returned servicemen, ANZAC day has since come to represent a commemoration and rememberance for all of the armed service men and women that served and fought in all wars. Perhaps the uniqueness is that the day stems from a military defeat rather than a victory.

 

[classical_hero]

There is acutally another particular that I was referring to, but I will give that one because it is so unique to a National military holiday that we commerate a defeat, but the one I was thinking of is that whenever ANZAC day is commerated on both sides of the ditch (Australia and New Zealand), reference to each other countries efforts in this battle is not mention, which is very wierd. :crazyeyes: It is one thing that I hate about this celbration is that we do not celebrate everyon who fought in this battle.

Your turn Hornblower. I knew it would be easy for an Aussie or a Kiwi, I was hoping that not many would come to this forum.

 

[Hornblower]

The following personality was famous during the great war for his deeds of derring do. Much later he became known for very different reasons.
OK who am I?
I served as a Naval Officer during the Great War. At the battle of the Falklands my light cruiser although damaged outfought her opponents and escaped. Later unable to maintain operations and cornered she was scuttled and I was interned in Chile. I escaped that country in 1915 and returned to my home country hailed as a hero and decorated. I returned to active service as a submarine commander and was credited with 18 sinkings.
After the war I continued to work with the post-Versailles navy. During the 30's I was appointed to an influential position within the German military and died in 1945.

 

[nonconformist]

Von Blomberg?

 

[Hornblower]

Nope Von Blomberg was in the army.

 

[Serutan]

Admiral Canaris?

 

[Hornblower]

Bingo! Serutan gets the guernsey!
Admiral Canaris head of the Abwehr in WW2 only commenced his fully fledged intelligence career in 1931. His earlier career in WW1 is generally overshadowed by later events.
Your go...

 

[classical_hero]

We are waiting on you Serutan.

 

[Ukas]

If I'll go next, three weeks has passed after Serutan answered.

Question:

This German artist was a machinegunner in WWI. Before he was taken to the front he painted "Self-portrait of Mars" showing the artist himself as the god of war. After experiencing the true nature of trench warfare his war-glorifying enthusiasm calmed somewhat, and his later wartime work included paintings titled "Self-portrait as Target' and "Self-portrait as Brute". After the war, in 1924, he published a very famous anti-war print sequence, "Der Krieg" (War).

He served three years in the front, earned the Iron Cross, 2nd class and was promoted to sergeant.

Who was this man?

 

[mitsho]

I know the pictures you referring to (I think ). It's been a time but afaik, we used these pictures to (start to) discuss WWI back in school. But I'm afraid, I've forgotten the name

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[Richard Cribb]

Otto Dix (10 chars).

 

[Serutan]

OOps! lost track of this one You should have booted me a lot sooner...

 

[mitsho]

Otto Dix (10 chars).

Of course, *hits-himself-with-his-hand-on-his-head*



PS: Did he also paint something else besides Tryptichons?

 

[Ukas]

Luceafarul got it right, ten points and a parrot badge!

Even though he became an ardent anti-war manifestor in his art, he said that he wouldn't have missed the war for any chance. Dix was called to arms again in 1945, Volkssturm, to fight in the western front. After seeing many of his colleagues persecuted by the Nazi system, he surrendered to first enemy he saw.

mitsho: He was a very productive artist, belonged to many movements, such as expressionists and the new objectivity. Hundreds of oil paintings, graphic prints, drawings, watercolours, gouaches and even few sculptures.

Your turn, luceafarul...

 

[mitsho]

mitsho: He was a very productive artist, belonged to many movements, such as expressionists and the new objectivity. Hundreds of oil paintings, graphic prints, drawings, watercolours, gouaches and even few sculptures.

Ok, I conclude then that my teacher was just incompetent (I knew this before already, but it's just another proof), because what 3 or 4 of his paintings we treated were mostly the same (tryptichons) and in my opinion just boring after the first painting. But he certainly was a very able man, I just didn't get to know him in a good way

mi

 

[Ukas]

Ok, I conclude then that my teacher was just incompetent (I knew this before already, but it's just another proof), because what 3 or 4 of his paintings we treated were mostly the same (tryptichons) and in my opinion just boring after the first painting. But he certainly was a very able man, I just didn't get to know him in a good way

mi

Doesn't amaze me, some of his tryptichons are some of his most famous work. Why your teacher did show these works is probably because Dix was first ones to use tryptichon in modern art and he painted them using an old technic based on thin layers of paint, which has been forgotten since the early days of impressionism. So, in this sense Dix's tryptichons are sort of milestones in art history.

 

[Richard Cribb]

I apologize for keeping you in suspense, and for lacking the time and imagination to cook up anything fancy.
Anyway, here is my question, and a rather simple one it is:
What was the "Tadeusz Kosciuszko Camp" and where was it located?

 

[Richard Cribb]

Was this so difficult?
If nobody gives it a shot until tomorrow, I will post a clue.

 

[Ukas]

About 10 years ago I saw a documentary about Kosciuszko, but cannot tie him to WWI. But I try to make an educated guess, the camp was barracks named after him and was located in Crakow?