2nd WW2 Cumulative History Quiz

[Serutan]

Wasn't a conference held there to set up the mechanism for repatriating stolen
money, art, etc?

 

[Rik Meleet]

Seru: not that I know of. It is not the answer I am looking for.

 

[cidknee]

i know that one of the dutch princess was brought here for protection, and she was pregnant. Seeing as how no dutch royaty has ever been born off of dutch soil, the canadian government dedicated a wing of the hospital she was in as Dutch soil. That wasy the baby was born in canada on dutch soil. Thats also the reason why every spring the city of Ottawa is given thousands of tulip bulbs from the dutch people. AND its actually illegal to pick them. BIG fine. Beautiful display too.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Cidknee: I think that is true.
However, that is the significance for 1 nation, and I am looking for nations (plural). So it is not the answer I am looking for.

Hint: the nations involved are (amongst others) Norway, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands and UK (despite not being conquered).

 

[privatehudson]

I'm going to take a guess that this has something to do with the gold reserves of the countries being transferred there or similar.

 

[Rik Meleet]

Private:

tons and tons of gold of many European nations made frantic journeys in the late 1930's, early 1940's through neutral lands and over the dangerous atlantic ocean to Ottawa in Canada. IIRC the Polish gold-reserve went via the Balkan, Turkey, Middle East to Egypt to England to Canada. All this to have a reserve for after the war and to deprive Germany of an extra economic base.

The floor is yours.

 

[privatehudson]

The useless trivia man strikes again

Seriously though I recall someone a while back on another forum talking about how French and Polish gold ended up in Canada, so I just took a stab at it

Ok, Picture round

Which nation did these ships belong to, which did they formerly belong to, and how where they sunk?

 

[cidknee]

Cidknee: I think that is true.
However, that is the significance for 1 nation, and I am looking for nations (plural). So it is not the answer I am looking for.

Hint: the nations involved are (amongst others) Norway, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands and UK (despite not being conquered).

indeed.. sorry early morning here and my brain is not awake yet. But yes it is true. IIRC its something like a $5000 fine to pick the tulips?

 

[cidknee]

The useless trivia man strikes again

Seriously though I recall someone a while back on another forum talking about how French and Polish gold ended up in Canada, so I just took a stab at it

Ok, Picture round

Which nation did these ships belong to, which did they formerly belong to, and how where they sunk?

man this took some lookin and yes i had to google it about 50 times but here.

These are the Greek coast defense ships Kilkis and Lemnos, formerly the battleships USS Idaho (BB 24) and USS Mississippi (BB 23), sunk at Salamis, Greece, during WWII.

The two Mississippi class ships were an ill-advised attempt to build smaller, less expensive battleships. They turned out to be slow, poor seaboats, and under armed. To make matters worse, they were completed in 1908, just as the Dreadnought-type battleships were arriving on the scene, so they were immediately obsolete, and within a few years were reduced to auxiliary duties. Both ships were decommissioned in 1914 and sold to Greece as coast defense ships, the proceeds from the sale funding a new Idaho (BB 42). They were the only ex-USN battleships ever sold for foreign service.

Lemnos was decommissioned by the Greeks in 1932 and became a training ship; after 1937 she was an accommodations hulk. Kilkis also left service in 1932 and became a training ship in 1935. Both were sunk by German aircraft in port at Salamis, 23 April 1941, as seen here. Despite years in foreign service, they retain their basic US Navy configuration, including the distinctive cage masts. Both ships were salvaged in 1951 and broken up.

 

[privatehudson]

Let me guess, a site called something like (overall) Haze and Gray?

And next time at least wait a while for others to take a go at it before Googling

 

[steviejay]

hmm, odd looking ships, don't look like any ship I've ever seen. what are those structures fore and aft? look-out towers? I'm gonna guess they're Italian and were sunk by British fighters in the raid that was supposed to have influenced Yamamoto for his raid on Pearl? (was it Taranto?)

(that's about as vague as I can put it, sorry)

edit: too slow. wrong anyway I was close, only a few miles to the east and I might have been right

 

[cidknee]

yeah and im sorry, i did try using a Janes book first, to see if i could recognise the masts, then I used photoshop to see If i could get the flag, but alas nothing worked. I did many many google searches until I found it. So I DID use google as a last resort. If I violated the rules I pass my question to the next person. but if not lemme know I got a cpl good ones. ( i think). And i actually like the picture guessing format. Makes it harder.

Those masts are look out and spotting postions for the guns. IIRC

 

[privatehudson]

They were sunk by German air attacks during their invasion of Greece. AFAIK the fore and aft structures were the masts, usually called "cage masts" in most books I've seen on them.

yeah and im sorry, i did try using a Janes book first, to see if i could recognise the masts, then I used photoshop to see If i could get the flag, but alas nothing worked

Well it wasn't meant to be that easy

You're fine to go on though.

 

[cidknee]

sweet.
keeping with the picture theme,name this ship, and who owns it and what its purpose is and was.
and for an extra brownie point, what the front " hump" was supposed to do

 

[nonconformist]

I'd say the front hump contained a gyrocopter.

 

[privatehudson]

Uhmm, that looks very much too recent a submarine to fit into the contexts of the quiz

 

[nonconformist]

Uhmm, that looks very much too recent a submarine to fit into the contexts of the quiz

I was thinking that; the towe fits no WWII shape.

 

[cidknee]

ya know u are right.... it didnt even register with me till right now... ill repost
btw that was the first ballistic subs in the US fleet, they are nuc trainers...and the fromt hump wassupposed to make it more manuverable...

what ship is this and what are those "buldges for"

 

[Rik Meleet]

Bulges look to me like radar thingies.

 

[cidknee]

Bulges look to me like radar thingies.

good guess but no.