2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[Crazy Eddie]

The Tallboy was 12,000lb, the Grandslam was 22,000lb. They didn't drop many of the grandslams as a specially modified lanc was needed.

edit: Tallboys were also used during the Ruhr dam raid.

 

[Hotpoint]

The 12,000 lb Grand Slam, used on the Tirpitz and several railway tunnels.

Your question... although you did get the weight wrong

 

[Reno]

I assume anyone can ask now? Well if i am right then i might aswell fire away.

How many US dollars did the USSR get as a Lend-Lease loan in 6.11.41?

 

[kingpenguin]

11 billion

 

[Reno]

No, your way off on that one.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

The Tallboy was 12,000lb, the Grandslam was 22,000lb. They didn't drop many of the grandslams as a specially modified lanc was needed.

edit: Tallboys were also used during the Ruhr dam raid.

This doesn't pertain to the question at hand, but tallboys were not used in the raids on the Ruhr dam. A specially designed bomb, essentially a depth charge, was rigged to bounce across the surface and explode on the face of the dam.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Your question... although you did get the weight wrong

I'll pass over the torch to Reno as I haven't replied for days.

To answer the question; no physical dollar bills were ever exchanged, so the correct answer is zero.

Any other conclusion is just economic mumbo-jumbo.

 

[Reno]

I'll pass over the torch to Reno as I haven't replied for days.

To answer the question; no physical dollar bills were ever exchanged, so the correct answer is zero.

Any other conclusion is just economic mumbo-jumbo.

Well, yeah there where no bills actually exchanget, but my "Economic mumbo-jumbo" information says something completly different. There was some money given to the USSR in one form or another, try again.

 

[nonconformist]

Big blocks o' gold.

 

[Reno]

lol, no.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

This doesn't pertain to the question at hand, but tallboys were not used in the raids on the Ruhr dam. A specially designed bomb, essentially a depth charge, was rigged to bounce across the surface and explode on the face of the dam.

I was thinking of the Sorpe dam, which they didn't use "bouncing" bombs for. For some reason I was sure that tallboys were used, but they apparently used non-rotating upkeep bombs. Either I have an unreliable source book or I'm going senile, take your pick.

 

[Reno]

As nobody seems to have gotten the right answer, i'l just say the correct one.

The US gave the USSR a Lend-Lease loan of 1 billion US dollars in 6.11.41

Anyone can ask now. (And i thought that that was easy)

 

[Adler17]

Okay a bit tricky question:
When was the German Reich disbanded?

Adler

 

[Reno]

7.5.1945 at the German surrender confederence signed by General Alfred Jodl.

 

[steviejay]

Okay a bit tricky question:
When was the German Reich disbanded?

Adler

which one?

I'll say the 9th of May 45. When the Germans surrendered in Czechoslovakia but thats a guess

 

[Adler17]

No. Again the hin: it is a trick here, so be carefull.

Adler

 

[Dragonlord]

AFAIK, it was never formally 'disbanded' (you mean 'aufgelöst', don't you?). The Federal Republic Germany was founded in the western allied sectors and was not the legal successor (no reparations!), though it assumed voluntary responsibility in some areas.
The German Democratic Republic in the former Soviet sector assumed no responsibility at all for the actions of the Reich.

 

[steviejay]

I'm not sure but I'll guess and say it was never disbanded. Wild shot here as the First Reich was considered to be the Holy Roman Empire, which was split up around 1805 or something, and the Second Reich was split up in 1918 as part of the Versailles Treaty. So........erm........ technically it wasn't split up, Germany just surrendered.......... erm............ maybe

Health Warning Kiddies - The above state is a result of 4 hours of lecturers on Java and Operating Systems, the results on the human mind are aparent for all to see. So be smart, don't do Computing at college

edit: ARGH, my bad.I started writing, the lecturer started to speak to me, then started again when he'd left and someone got in before me, sorry. On the plus side it does seem I'm not as crazy as I thought, someone else seems to be thinking in the same way I am. lol

 

[Adler17]

Dragonlord got it. Yes it was a question which is in German called Fangfrage (catcher´s question).
Indeed the German Reich was never disbanded but is not able to work since 1945. So on a juristical way it still exist today!
It is over to you, Dragonlord.

Adler

 

[Dragonlord]

Oops, couldn't get here earlier - I'm a bit rushed just now, but will think of a question later this afternoon...