Off topic- Quiz Section

[Gen. Sandworm]

I really like the whole quiz idea.

So a question. If you get it right its your question.

Here is mine.

He was triumphant in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and the broad jump. He was also a key member of the 400-meter relay team that won the Gold Medal. In all but one of these events he set Olympic records. He was the first Blank in the history of Olympic Track and Field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. The year was 1936. Who was the man?

[reiver]

I really like the whole quiz idea.

So a question. If you get it right its your question.

Here is mine.

He was triumphant in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and the broad jump. He was also a key member of the 400-meter relay team that won the Gold Medal. In all but one of these events he set Olympic records. He was the first Blank in the history of Olympic Track and Field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. The year was 1936. Who was the man?

Jesse Owens

[Gen. Sandworm]

Correctamundo...............your question. :wink:

[reiver]

Staying with the Olympic theme, since London just won the 2012 Games :
Which American athlete won both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon at the same Games, only to have the medals taken away when it was discovered he had played minor league baseball for one season?
The medals were reinstated in 1983, 30 years after his death.

[South African Military]

Jim Thorpe, 1912 Olympics

[reiver]

Jim Thorpe, 1912 Olympics

Spot on SAM.
Your question?

[South African Military]

Cool, right, now my question:

Some beleive it was one of the worlds finest aircraft, it was able to achieve mach 2 with a full load. Made in the late 1950s the supersonic interceptor called _____ was way ahead of any other aircraft at that time. Mid way into the develpment project the ____ was cancelled due to extremely high costs and some political issues. After the cancellation of the project, most of the documents and evidence concerning the ____ was destroyed, and thus the ____ is still a bit of a mystery today.

What is the name of this plane?

[Walther]

The BAE TSR 2

Jan

[South African Military]

The BAE TSR 2

Jan

ooo, well it does match some of the characteristics that I have listed, it is unfortunetely not the plane that I was thinking of.

[Walther]

Well, then it is the Avro Arrow, the Canuck equivalent, shelved on politicasl pressure from the US.

Jan

[South African Military]

Well, then it is the Avro Arrow, the Canuck equivalent, shelved on politicasl pressure from the US.

Jan

yup you got it! Your question.

[Walther]

She was born in the Kremlin, her father religious leader and her mother the daughter of a founder of another religious group. She was very romantic and wrote children's books and poems. Even though her religion condemned lying as a grave sin, she joined a nation's intelligence service to work in the field in a country occupied by the enemy. Even though her situation there became more and more dangerous, sghe refused offeres of being pulled out and brought to safety. She was finally captured by the enemy, after a fight, and executed in a prison camp.

Who was she?

Jan

[Bluffcove]

They made a film about her with kate beckinsdale, I think, I cant rember her name.......................

failing that Ill guess someone else entirely and say Mata Hari?

[Walther]

Wrong, Mata Hari was a Dutch dancer, working in France and Belgium and not born in the Kremlin. A hint: the person I'm refering to was active in WW2. She was also a royal princess.

Jan

[Tsolias]

Princess Noor Inayat Khan?

[Walther]

Correct!

Her father was the leader of a Sufi Muslim sect, her grandfather was the last Indian Muslim ruler who gave in to the British in the 19th century and her mother was a relative of the founder of Christian Science. She was born at the imperial Russian court in the Kremlin, were here father was a spiritual adviser to the Czar. After the Russian revoluntion the family went to France, where she grew up and learned to speak fluent French. When the Germans invaded, her family flew to Britain, where she became a wireless operator with the WAAF. She wanted to do more to fight the German invaders, whom she despised due to moral reasons and got recruited into the SOE. Even though she had serious problems with procedures and secrecy, she was airdropped into France as a wireless operator, the most dangerous job in the SOE.
After her group got betrayed by a traitor, she refused to be repatriated because she was the only wireless operator at large in the Paris area and without her her resistance organisation would have been without contact to Britain.
Eventuallly the Abwehr caught up with her and she was arrested after a fight. She had to undergo torture in several German prisons, and was executed on september 11th, 1944 in Dachau concentration camp.

Jan

[Tsolias]

OK my turn.
What was the largest German Airborne operation of the WWII?

[Gen. Sandworm]

OK my turn.
What was the largest German Airborne operation of the WWII?

The invasion of Crete

[Tsolias]

Correct!
Crete was the scene of the largest German Airborne operation of the war, and the first time in history that an island had been taken by airborne assault. Afterwards, Crete was dubbed the graveyard of the Fallschirmjager (German Parachutists); they suffered nearly 4000 killed and missing in the assault. It was also the first time the Germans had encountered stiff partisan activity, with women and even children getting involved in the battle. The XI Fliegerkorps was responsible for ferrying the paratroops to Crete using 500 JU-52's and 70 DFS-230 light assault gliders, all together 8100 men were dropped on to Crete, 1860 men at Maleme, 2460 men at Hania, 1380 men at Rethymno and 2360 men at Iraclion.

[Gen. Sandworm]

Since this is off topic quiz............here is a questions for ya.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the BLANK planets.

Feel in the Blank.

Sorry if this causes any language confusion with some of you. Also there are 2 possible answers but im looking for the more formal one.

[Tsolias]

Because they are composed primarily from gases? :?

[reiver]

The Jovian planets?

[Gen. Sandworm]

Because they are composed primarily from gases? :?

The Jovian planets?

Well you are both right but reiver has the answer i was looking for.

[reiver]

Ok, we're looking for a French actress. (not recent) :)
Daughter of a courtesan, her own lovers alegedly included Victor Hugo and the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII.
Considered the greatest actress of her day, she was one of the first women to play the lead role in Hamlet.
She subsequently lost a leg after an injury sustained on-stage, but continued to act in roles she could play sitting down.
(edited for typo)

[Tsolias]

That was easy...Sarah Bernhardt

[reiver]

That was easy...Sarah Bernhardt
The divine Sarah it was.
Over to you Tsolias.

[Tsolias]

How was the Kriegsmarine named before 1852?

[South African Military]

Reichsflotte

[Tsolias]

Hmmm No.

[South African Military]

Societé de Commerce maritime or the Prussian Maritime Enterprise, was more of a merchant fleet, but was formed in the 18th century and into the 19th century. The first "Real" navy was made by Prince Adalbert and the navy started taking shape from 1948 onwards. That was called Reichsflotte.

so.... :?

[Tsolias]

Bundesmarine The German Navy from 1848 - 1852 and again after 1956.

http://uboat.net/special/glossary_list.htm

That was the anwer i was looking for.

[Tsolias]

Hey SAM wanna have the next one?

[South African Military]

Bundesmarine The German Navy from 1848 - 1852 and again after 1956.

http://uboat.net/special/glossary_list.htm

That was the anwer i was looking for.

mmmm, well thats interesting, because I found something different.

"It traces (German Navy) its root back to the Imperial Fleet (Reichsflotte) of the revolutionary era of 1848-1852...which later evolved into the Northern German Federal Navy (Norddeutsche Bundesmarine, 1866-1871)"

well theres more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesmarine

[Tsolias]

OK lets call this a dead heat?
(edited for typo)

[South African Military]

OK lets call this a dead heat?
(edited for typo)

Ya, lets forget it.

[Tsolias]

OK lets hear it!

[Gen. Sandworm]

OK lets call this a dead heat?
(edited for typo)

Ya, lets forget it.

So Sam I guess its your question. :?:

[South African Military]

OK lets call this a dead heat?
(edited for typo)

Ya, lets forget it.

So Sam I guess its your question. :?:

Ill give it to you gen. I cant think of anything right now.

[Tsolias]

Oh c'mon Im ready!

[Gen. Sandworm]

K here is my question. The Peloponnesian Wars were mainly fought between those how joined with Sparta and those who backed Athens. One could argue that there was a 3rd player...........that being Perisa. Who was the only man to play a vital role on all 3 sides of this conflict?

[Bladensburg]

Xenophon? Started out as an Athenian Strategos, defected to the Spartans and finally ended up on the Persian expedition.

[Gen. Sandworm]

Xenophon? Started out as an Athenian Strategos, defected to the Spartans and finally ended up on the Persian expedition.

No but good guess. The war was from 431-404. Xenophon was born in 427 and would have been 23 by the end of the war. Thou he did participate he was far to young to have the impact that the person I was looking for. Im assuming we are talking about the same Xenophon 427-355.

[Tubbyboy]

General, that is an absolute stinker!

Anyone who gets it right is either a true student of Ancient Greek history or used Google!

[pdf27]

Alcibiades? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades)

Edit: fixed link

[Gen. Sandworm]

General, that is an absolute stinker!

Anyone who gets it right is either a true student of Ancient Greek history or used Google!

Or 3. They just watch the History Channel constantly. :D

Alcibiades? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcibiades)

Edit: fixed link

correct pdf27..........your question.

[pdf27]

Hmm... just for a change, here's a photo quiz for you. I was going to be evil and crop bits of this photo out, but decided to be nice and leave them. So it shouldn't be too hard. :twisted:
What is the aircraft type?

http://aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk/mus/uk/cosfd/cosfd3.jpg

[Sturmtruppen]

im joined guys :D .

hard question,is it the meteor prone wk935?

of the tipe fighter

[Tsolias]

Dam it Erwin!
I knew that! :evil:
http://aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk/mus/uk/cosfd/cosfd3.jpg

[Sturmtruppen]

Dam it Erwin!
I knew that! :evil:
http://aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk/mus/uk/cosfd/cosfd3.jpg
:twisted: ,yes,the image link you found is by hitting quote,but,how do you find that in the site!.
im good sir :D

[Gen. Sandworm]

Dam it Erwin!
I knew that! :evil:
http://aeroflt.users.netlink.co.uk/mus/uk/cosfd/cosfd3.jpg
:twisted: ,yes,the image link you found is by hitting quote,but,how do you find that in the site!.
im good sir :D

Im assuming your question?

[Sturmtruppen]

i think so :D.


what´s the name of this prototipe aircraft:
http://img315.imageshack.us/img315/2117/erwin7lm.jpg

[Cuts]

Airfix ?

[Sturmtruppen]

NO :)

[Cuts]

Revell ?

[Sturmtruppen]

Revell ?
i have to reveal?.

[Tsolias]

The Arado Ar E.581.4?

[Firefly]

Did it ever really fly? Or was it a concept?

[Dani]

It was only a study (not even a projected aircraft).

Blohm & Voss Ae607

http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/7453/3bb6079kk.jpg

[Dani]

Revell ?
i have to reveal?.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Erwin, Cuts talks about Revell (one of the biggest modelling company http://www.revell.de/typo3/en/products/model_kits/catalogue/index.html?&L=1) in order to ask you if you have that aircraft as a model kit.

[Walther]

Now I know where George Lucas got his ideas from for the spacecraft in Star Wars! :lol:

Jan

[Hanz Lutz]

If they Germans have this plain ,they will be winners in war.

[Sturmtruppen]

Now I know where George Lucas got his ideas from for the spacecraft in Star Wars! :lol:

Jan
:lol: :lol: :lol:

,dani,you do the question :wink:

[Sturmtruppen]

Revell ?
i have to reveal?.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Erwin, Cuts talks about Revell (one of the biggest modelling company http://www.revell.de/typo3/en/products/model_kits/catalogue/index.html?&L=1) in order to ask you if you have that aircraft as a model kit.
SORRY CUTS :P

[Dani]

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/8646/unknown5lj.jpg

Could anyone post at least the country which belongs this tank?

Edited: Hint: It is a light tank. :D
2nd edit: Hint 2: It is a WW2 tank.

[Sturmtruppen]

france

[Dani]

No chance Erwin!

[Sturmtruppen]

No chance Erwin!
sir yes sir :( :cry: :cry: :) :D :roll: :wink: :idea:

[Dani]

...And, if you'll guess the country, try to post also the type of that tank. :D :D

[american sniper]

is it a Type 95 HA-GO w/ 37mm Gun used by the Japanese

[Sturmtruppen]

is it a Type 95 HA-GO w/ 37mm Gun used by the Japanese
:shock: ,he´s good!,for me,all the light french,and japanese tanks are the same,and the early brit tanks too. :P

[Dani]

is it a Type 95 HA-GO w/ 37mm Gun used by the Japanese
Wrong type, good country.

[american sniper]

ok

[Dani]

Anyway sniper, you could post your question.
It is type 98 Ke-Ni with 37 mm gun.
Good to you!

[american sniper]

who said this


"Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential."

[Sturmtruppen]

who said this


"Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential."
winston churchill :) ,i have a paper whit quotes,printed by me :)

[american sniper]

dang well good job erwin

[Sturmtruppen]

dang well good job erwin
thank you mate

[Sturmtruppen]

my question:
as i said,i have a paper with quotes,so,i will join to those kind of questions:

who said this:
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1621/billclinton0it.png

[american sniper]

was it Adolf Hitler

[Sturmtruppen]

was it Adolf Hitler

:wink: good hit!,your question?

[american sniper]

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/Sol23/r4.jpg

what kind of chopper is this

[Firefly]

Sikorsky Dragonfly.

[american sniper]

good job your question

[Gen. Sandworm]

Sikorsky Dragonfly.

Your question Firefly.

[Firefly]

What was the name of the Operation that caused 30,000 men, Tirpitz, Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Lutzow, Hipper and Prinz Eugen to be moved to Norway.


Edited for Sp

[Komissar Ombrok]

Operation "Thunderbolt".

[Firefly]

Operation "Thunderbolt".

Nope

[Komissar Ombrok]

Operation "Thunderbolt".

Nope

??? I take a book of Halland (sorry for my big translate from russian): "operation with target to transfer our fleet to Norway was named "thunderbolt" ... our target was to air cover ships from enemy... W. Chirchill was named our operation "the shame of Britain" ... We are told about the same operation, isn't it?

[BDL]

Are you asking for the German name for the op? It was Weserbrung or something like that (I'm crap with German spelling)

I won't be able to post a question till after work (couple of hours) so if I'm right, you'll all have to be patient

[Komissar Ombrok]

Oops. :oops: Find it. Halland missed it himself. "Thunderbolt " was name the operation of air cover of the ships, but full operation was named "Donnerkile"

[Firefly]

Nope, all wrong so far. And Im after the English name.

[Gen. Sandworm]

Nope, all wrong so far. And Im after the English name.

What about the "Weser Exercise" ?

[Firefly]

Nope, all wrong so far. And Im after the English name.

What about the "Weser Exercise" ?

No, sorry

[Tsolias]

Operation Archery?

[Firefly]

Operation Archery?

Yes, first big commando raid on Norway, convinced the Germans to move forces into Norway that remained there for the rest of the War. If I was a German soldier during ww2 I can think of no better place to be than sunny Norway.


Over to you for the next question.

[Tsolias]

When did the last (WWII) soldier of Japan surrender?



(edited for typo)

[South African Military]

1974

crazy guy :D

[Tsolias]

Correct!
2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada
Lubang Island
Probably the most 'famous' of the Japanese holdouts, Onoda was the only survivor of a group of four. 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan.

[Walther]

Story was proven to be a hoax.

Jan

[Hanz Lutz]

Correct!
2nd Lt. Hiroo Onada
Lubang Island
Probably the most 'famous' of the Japanese holdouts, Onoda was the only survivor of a group of four. 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan.

But wher is he hide 29 years :shock:

[Tsolias]

Story was proven to be a hoax.

Jan

Im afraid not this one. :roll:

[South African Military]

My gun picture in the General discussian quiz turned out to be a disaster. I hope this one might turn out a little better. This might be tricky.

Whats the name of this gun?

http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/97/mm3aj.jpg

[StalingradK]

I want to say MP18... but the ammo cartridge is curved and the stock folding GAH, I think it is a... huh stumped me, lol looks like an MP5 with the cartridge sticking out of the side.

[Dani]

Sterling SMG.

This submachine gun had been developed in the 1940s by the Patchett at the Sterling Armament Co., Great Britain, and had been adopted by british Army in 1953. It remained in army service well untill early 1990s, when it was replaced by L85A1 assault rifle.
Sterling is a relatively simple, but wery well made, blowback operated gun. The receiver and the barrel heat shield was made from steel tube, the bolt was machined, with fixed firing pin and four special ribs, designed to gather and remove the dust and fouling from the receiver. The curved magazine is inserted from the left side, spent cases are ejected to the right. The folding butt is made from stamped steel. Silenced version of the Sterling, oficially labelled as L34A1, replaced in service the older STEN Mark 6 silenced.
The Sterling SMG deserved wery high reputation along the troops due to extreme reliability and good accuracy.
:D (Obviously I quoted)

Edited: From http://www.gunsworld.com/gun_smg/sterling.htm

[South African Military]

Sterling SMG.

This submachine gun had been developed in the 1940s by the Patchett at the Sterling Armament Co., Great Britain, and had been adopted by british Army in 1953. It remained in army service well untill early 1990s, when it was replaced by L85A1 assault rifle.
Sterling is a relatively simple, but wery well made, blowback operated gun. The receiver and the barrel heat shield was made from steel tube, the bolt was machined, with fixed firing pin and four special ribs, designed to gather and remove the dust and fouling from the receiver. The curved magazine is inserted from the left side, spent cases are ejected to the right. The folding butt is made from stamped steel. Silenced version of the Sterling, oficially labelled as L34A1, replaced in service the older STEN Mark 6 silenced.
The Sterling SMG deserved wery high reputation along the troops due to extreme reliability and good accuracy.
:D (Obviously I quoted)

Edited: From http://www.gunsworld.com/gun_smg/sterling.htm

You got it!

[Dani]

Sorry for my late reply! :oops:

Here it is a new one:

Name the events tooked place in Eastern Europe in 1956 and 1968 (and also name the leaders of that events).
:D

[Bluffcove]

Prague Spring and April theses.

Not sure of the leaders

[Dani]

Correct on Prague Spring only

[pdf27]

Sorry for my late reply! :oops:

Here it is a new one:

Name the events tooked place in Eastern Europe in 1956 and 1968 (and also name the leaders of that events).
:D
1968 - Prague Spring - Alexander Dubcek
1956 - Hungarian Uprising - Imre Nagy

Edit: phpBB can't handle special characters apparently

[Walther]

You forgot their opponents:
Khrustchev and Brezhnev

Jan

[Dani]

pdf27 you got it!
Walther, I intended to ask only about the leaders of the events and not also about the leaders of the opponents. Thanks for adding!! :D

[pdf27]

pdf27 you got it!
Cheers.
Another photo quiz for you here... What is the aircraft type at upper right, and what is it doing?
http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/152/guess5ij.jpg
No extra information needed, but the more you can provide the more impressed I'll be...

[Firefly]

The event is an early air-to-air refuelling.

The receiver is either a Sunderland or an Empire Flying Boat.

The tanker is a Handley Page (Harrow?)

Possibly late 1930's

Harrow:

http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html%20pages/HANDLEY%20PAGE%20HP54%20HARROW%20(AND%20SPARROW).h tm

Sunderland:

http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/pictures/gallery/short%20s25%20sunderland.jpg.html

[pdf27]

Bang on - I had a feeling that would be a rather easy one. From memory the reciever is an Empire (C?) class flying boat - definately not a Sunderland. Would give you the details but I've mislaid the website I got it from :(

Anyways, your question.

[Firefly]

I will not be able to get a question out until this evening, so anyone else who has one feel free to do this before if you like.

[Dani]

I assume that Firefly willl not be upset if I'll post a quiz:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2475/quiz0zn.jpg

:lol: :lol:
WTF is this????? (TO BE READ: Please name the vehicle, the army that used it and the year) :lol:

[Commando Jordovski]

I assume that Firefly willl not be upset if I'll post a quiz:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2475/quiz0zn.jpg

:lol: :lol:
WTF is this????? (TO BE READ: Please name the vehicle, the army that used it and the year) :lol:

:lol: :lol: hahaha looks like the primitives or natives used that for their army against the germans made out of some kind of straw and tree bark. :lol: :lol:

[Commando Jordovski]

Guess what this plane is called?
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4374/f1114ac.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Dani]

Commando, answer at my quiz and if your answer is right, then you could post a question.

Edited: Hint: When saving picture, change also the name of it. It is F 111 (track back)

[Walther]

Concerning the last question:

It is an RAAF F-111 Ardvaark going full blast with reheat on.

Jan

[Dani]

:D :D Walther, what about my picture?

[Commando Jordovski]

Commando, answer at my quiz and if your answer is right, then you could post a question.

Edited: Hint: When saving picture, change also the name of it. It is F 111 (track back)

Ah crap track backs i thought that might give it away. :lol:
what was your quiz question Dani ?

[Walther]

Those armoured cars could be Israeli improvised vehicles, from the 1948 war, based on GM deuce and a half trucks.

Jan

[Dani]

Nope.
Clues: Another continent, older than 1948.

[Dani]

OK, I'll give up. Walther you will post next.

It is called Tortuga and it was an armoured recon vehicle for Venezuela in 1934.

http://ww2photo.mimerswell.com/tanks/vz/armerc/tortug.htm in Swedish (a very good site).

http://www.fav-club.com/tortuga.htm in Spanish

[Walther]

Ok, to make it a bit difficult, I don't just want to know the name of the vehicle, but also the war this picture was taken in, the nationality of the soldiers and the years... :twisted:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/jkrusat/quiz.jpg

Jan

[Commando Jordovski]

Well Jan, i have no idea on what the tanks are but if i had to guess i would say its a Willy 1916, maybe Italian.

[Dani]

Ok, to make it a bit difficult, I don't just want to know the name of the vehicle, but also the war this picture was taken in, the nationality of the soldiers and the years... :twisted:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/jkrusat/quiz.jpg

Jan

Carden Lloyd Mark IV
Pictures taken between 1932-1935 (Bolivia-Paraguay war)
Bolivian soldiers

[Walther]

Dani, you are correct! Your turn! Are you specialised in South American conflicts?

Jan

[Dani]

Dani, you are correct! Your turn! Are you specialised in South American conflicts?
Jan

:lol: :lol: :lol: No chance!

Firstly I thought that it is a komsomolets tractor.
Secondly I thought that it is a TK polish tankette (but the caps of the soldiers doesn't looks like polish one)
Normally Carden-Lloyd (especially Mk VI) doesn't look very close to the model.
So I search for tankette only (thinking that if I posted a Venezuelean Tortuga your quiz it must be some exotic because you asked also about nationality and year). :lol:

Well at least through my years on surfing I learned how to search.
(Remeber my previous posts.)

Edited: In a couple of hours I'll be able to post a quiz.

[Dani]

Here is a new one: (Jan, if you know already please hold the answer for few hours - let give others a chance).

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3402/quiz21ep.jpg

Edited: What is this?

[Cuts]

Bundeswehr Sniper qualification badge.

[Dani]

Well done Cuts. Your turn.

[Commando Jordovski]

ARGH i knew that one when i saw it immediatly

[Dani]

Cuts, please add your quiz!!

[FluffyBunnyGB]

I'll pop a question in then until Cuts gets one sorted.

There were a series of experimental conversions of the British WW2 3.7" Anti Aircraft (AA) gun to form Anti Tank (AT) guns. What were these known as (hint - smaller AT guns were known as the 2, 6 and 17 pounder AT guns)?

Fluffy

PS if you get that one sorted, which WW2 British tank had one as the main armament?

edited for spelling

[BDL]

Twenty pounders, original armament of the Centurion

[FluffyBunnyGB]

and if that is too easy a question, when a number of the AA variant were captured at Dunkirk, they were pressed in to German service.

What did the Germans call the gun?

[BDL]

9.4cm (3.7in = 94mm doesn't it?) Flak Vickers (e)?

[FluffyBunnyGB]

Right on the AA gun designation (I though it was the 96mm Flak Vickers (e) but it could be the 94mm), but wrong-diddly-wrong-wrong on the tank gun!

Incidentally, the CENTURION was originally designed and fitted with the 17pdr (some had the very similar 77mm instead), although they did move to a 20 pdr later.

The gun I'm talking about was also fitted as an experiment to a MOSQUITO fighter-bomber as an anti submarine weapon. It had a fabulous muzzle brake that was over 30% efficient. However, the muzzle brake was far to complex to make unless by hand, so the idea was shelved.

[Tsolias]

Who's next?

[PzKpfw VI Tiger]

Who's next?

:?: :? someone go already! :shock:

[Walther]

Ok, since nobody else is posting, here is my question:

What is this obscure bit of equipment? (Student Scaley, if you know, please wait for a day, to give the others a chance :D )
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/jkrusat/9080.jpg

Who invented it and what was it used for? What was the big advantage of this gadget and what was the biggest disadvantage?

Jan

[Tubbyboy]

I could tell you all about it as I've found the site you got it from :D

You might want to host the pic yourself...

[Walther]

No cheating, please! :D

BTW, I put the picture on my own picture site. So no more cheating possible.

Jan

[Cuts]

Jan, check your PMs.

[FluffyBunnyGB]

Time for another question then?

[Dani]

Time for another question then?
As soon as anybody inputs the right answer!
http://www.ww2incolor.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=19181#19181

[Firefly]

OK is it H2S?

[Cuts]

Nope, its a WWII Fullerphone MK V FD WT Set.

[Walther]

Correct, just explain what it was used for and what the advantages and disadvantages of it were!

Jan

[Cuts]

Advantages:
Run line therfore not susceptible to RDF (in it's infancy,) or sigint by other stns 'listening in.'
DC can be used wherever the cells are available.

Disadvantages:
Run line therefore only connection to certain stns.
DC only gives a range of about three or four miles.

Does that cover it ?

[Walther]

Yes, even if the enemy manages to tap the wire, unless he has a Fullerphone himself, he will not be able to hear anything. One disadvantage over e.g. a field telephone is that it works only as a telgraph, using Morse code, so an ordinary squaddie couldn't use it.

Jan

[Cuts]

Yes, even if the enemy manages to tap the wire, unless he has a Fullerphone himself, he will not be able to hear anything. One disadvantage over e.g. a field telephone is that it works only as a telgraph, using Morse code, so an ordinary squaddie couldn't use it.

Jan(My bold.)

Any ordinary squaddie, such as myself, should be competent at Morse. :wink:

[Walther]

Is Morse code part of the training in the British Army of normal soldiers (not signallers), at a level of a proficient telegraphist?
I thought it was only taught to signallers.

Jan

[BDL]

Is Morse code part of the training in the British Army of normal soldiers (not signallers), at a level of a proficient telegraphist?
I thought it was only taught to signallers.

Jan

Nobody gets taught morse anymore (apart from SF), as far as I know.

I'm a Scaley :wink:

[Gen. Sandworm]

Is Morse code part of the training in the British Army of normal soldiers (not signallers), at a level of a proficient telegraphist?
I thought it was only taught to signallers.

Jan

Nobody gets taught morse anymore (apart from SF), as far as I know.

I'm a Scaley :wink:

Maybe it was just the movie.........but I thought US Navy Pilots are still taught morse code.

[BDL]

Maybe it was just the movie.........but I thought US Navy Pilots are still taught morse code.

Maybe they are, but no one in the Royal Signals is (apart from the 'Special' people).

[Crab_to_be]

Maybe it was just the movie.........but I thought US Navy Pilots are still taught morse code.

Maybe they are, but no one in the Royal Signals is (apart from the 'Special' people).
I thought the Royal Sigs were 'special' people ;)

[1000ydstare]

The Royal Navy are still taught it, as are the signals people on the North Sea Oil Rigs.

Did any one see that guy doing morse on independance day? with the heel of his hand. If the guy who taught me morse could have got hold of him!!!!

Edit to add Pilots may also be taught or at least have a card in the cockpit with it all written on, for signalling.

I am special people, my mum tells me so.

[BDL]

Maybe it was just the movie.........but I thought US Navy Pilots are still taught morse code.

Maybe they are, but no one in the Royal Signals is (apart from the 'Special' people).
I thought the Royal Sigs were 'special' people ;)

My mum told me I was very special :wink:

But even more special than me

[Gen. Sandworm]

Well ill keep it going. Simple question. What was the names of the two groups fighting in Rwanda during 1994? Just the 2 simple names. Also aproximately how many people died in how many days?

[Crab_to_be]

Hutu and Tutsi.

Lots died.

Luckily the African Union took decisive action and...
err...

[Tsolias]

That was very impressing Crab to be, two minutes! :shock:
Anyway the deaths were about 800000.

[Fuchs66]

Nobody gets taught morse anymore (apart from SF), as far as I know.

I'm a Scaley :wink:

I got taught morse back in the 80s as a Combat signaller RE Cl 1 (only up to 12 words per min though) hated it but could see the point, possibly the only means of coms after the good old EMP and all that.

[Gen. Sandworm]

well if we are going on my question I guess Crab is next

[Crab_to_be]

Name two current Regiments within the British Army which wear a maroon stable belt.

British users - give our international friends a chance!

edit: Research based on Tsolias's answer has lead to the question beaing altered slightly. It seems the question was poorly phrased!

[pdf27]

Luckily the African Union took decisive action and...
err...
Yes, the genocide in Rwanda was certainly a career-limiting move for the head of UN Peacekeeping at the time, a certain Mr. Kofi Annan.

[Tsolias]

The East Lancashire, South Lancashire, and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments.

[Crab_to_be]

The East Lancashire, South Lancashire, and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments.

Excellent answer. Beats the criteria set in the original question and I had to go off and research on the Army website, making it a valuable learning experience. :oops: The question has also been modified as a result - I now know of three Regiments (one is more accurately a Corps) which wear the Maroon Stable belt.

The Regiments you name have been amalgamated to form the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, so that's one of them. The other is fairly obvious, at least to UK military types.

[Tsolias]

I had to go off and research on the Army website, making it a valuable learning experience. :oops:

I think that's the best part of a quiz.

[Tsolias]

OK here's my question:

Who was the pilot of the last German plane that took of from Berlin at the end of WWII?

[BDL]

You still owe Crab a battalion (or three) wearing a maroon belt Tsolias.

The pilot was a woman was it not (or certainly had a woman pilot with him), can't remember her name though.

[Tsolias]

You still owe Crab a battalion (or three) wearing a maroon belt Tsolias.

Im not sure that i agree to change a question after a nice answer has been given.

The pilot was a woman was it not (or certainly had a woman pilot with him), can't remember her name though.

Cool, why don't you search a bit?

[BDL]

Im not sure that i agree to change a question after a nice answer has been given.

Not having a go at you fella, just reminding you that you only got half the units that wear a maroon belt.

Cool, why don't you search a bit?

Didn't want to cheat and consult the book I have that I know has the answer in, I'l look it up later on if the name doesn't come to me

[Fuchs66]

You still owe Crab a battalion (or three) wearing a maroon belt Tsolias.

Im not sure that i agree to change a question after a nice answer has been given.


It was a very good answer but not correct, the question was which regiments wear the maroon belt ie present tense, the regiments you named do not exist any more but have been amalgamated to one of the regiments required you still have to name the second modern regiment.

[Tsolias]

It was a very good answer but not correct, the question was which regiments wear the maroon belt ie present tense, the regiments you named do not exist any more but have been amalgamated to one of the regiments required you still have to name the second modern regiment.

:oops: Dunno any other.... :oops:

[Crab_to_be]

It was a very good answer but not correct, the question was which regiments wear the maroon belt ie present tense, the regiments you named do not exist any more but have been amalgamated to one of the regiments required you still have to name the second modern regiment.

:oops: Dunno any other.... :oops:

I know I did alter the question because I phrased it badly. You've got the moral victory with the three amalgamated Lancashire Regiments. To seal your victory, name the final Regiment. Your clue is that they tend to fall out of aeroplanes more than your average soldier.

[BDL]

I know I did alter the question because I phrased it badly. You've got the moral victory with the three amalgamated Lancashire Regiments. To seal your victory, name the final Regiment. Your clue is that they tend to fall out of aeroplanes more than your average soldier.

Clumsy RLC movers?

[Firefly]

It was a very good answer but not correct, the question was which regiments wear the maroon belt ie present tense, the regiments you named do not exist any more but have been amalgamated to one of the regiments required you still have to name the second modern regiment.

:oops: Dunno any other.... :oops:

I know I did alter the question because I phrased it badly. You've got the moral victory with the three amalgamated Lancashire Regiments. To seal your victory, name the final Regiment. Your clue is that they tend to fall out of aeroplanes more than your average soldier.

A the Simpsons, they have given the modern world so much.

Jeebus save me.................................

[Tsolias]

Clumsy RLC movers?

I knew it,i knew it!
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Or maybe the Parachute Regiment?

[Crab_to_be]

And you be the winner, by getting the answer so right that I had to revise the original question :oops:

A round of applause for Mr Tsolias!

For the record, I have no idea who the last pilot to leave Berlin was. I look forwards to expanding my diminutive knowledge of the subject.

[Tsolias]

And you be the winner, by getting the answer so right that I had to revise the original question :oops:

A round of applause for Mr Tsolias!

Thanks mate.
I wouldn't have make it without your help.


For the record, I have no idea who the last pilot to leave Berlin was. I look forwards to expanding my diminutive knowledge of the subject.


You mean you don't google or wiki on quizes?
I have to admit that i do-at least some of the answers.
Would that be a cheat?
IMHO is better for someone to search+find+read+post, than to just wait for the answer to come from another member or just read the answers.

[Fuchs66]

OK I'll have a go at this would it have been that skilled test pilot but rabid Hitler groupy Hanna Reitsch. Saw a documentery about her a while back seem to remember something about her being the last pilot out.

[BDL]

OK I'll have a go at this would it have been that skilled test pilot but rabid Hitler groupy Hanna Reitsch. Saw a documentery about her a while back seem to remember something about her being the last pilot out.

That's her, knew it was Hanna something

[Tsolias]

OK I'll have a go at this would it have been that skilled test pilot but rabid Hitler groupy Hanna Reitsch. Saw a documentery about her a while back seem to remember something about her being the last pilot out.

Correct!
Hanna Reitsch's most dangerous assignment was to ferry Luftwaffe General Robert Ritter von Greim to meet with Hitler in the bunker of the Berlin Reich Chancellery in the last days of the war. The Luftwaffe officers clearly believed this mission to be impossible: Berlin was completely surrounded by the Soviets and not a single German plane had been able to get into the city for two days. Greim was wounded during the approach to Berlin, but Hanna brought the Fieseler Storch to a safe landing on a shell-pocked street near HitlerΉs underground bunker. After spending two days in the bunker, watching the disintegration of Germany's leader, Hanna and Greim took off in an Arado Ar 96 monoplane, using a bombed-out street as a runway. Flying through a low cloud bank, Hanna was able to evade Soviet searchlights and fighters. Hanna was the only woman to be awarded the Iron Cross and Luftwaffe Diamond Clasp. She went on to set more than forty altitude and endurance records in motorless and powered aircraft in her lifetime.

[Fuchs66]

OK I take it it's my go now:

Which Nobel prize winner in 1918 caused a scandal and what was the reason for the scandal?

[Man of Stoat]

OK I take it it's my go now:

Which Nobel prize winner in 1918 caused a scandal and what was the reason for the scandal?

Fritz Haber, awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for the Haber Process for synthesising ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen gases (N2 + 3N2 >> 2 NH3). Was involved in chemical weapon development in WW1, and his wife committed suicide with his service weapon at a dinner party in tribute to his having personally overseen the first successful use of chlorine in Ypres.

(btw I had a hunch it was Haber so wikipedia'd him)

[Fuchs66]

Correct the French press described as a scandal the fact that "The father of the gas war" Fritz Haber was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry for his work on the synthesis of ammonia. Still known as the Haber-Bosch synthesis.

[Walther]

His wife killed herself because she couldn´t live knowing about his work.

Jan

[Man of Stoat]

I believe that this is my question then:

The 9mm Parabellum cartridge is an accident of design; it should never have been. How and why did it come about? What was it based on? And for bonus sweeties, what are the implications for handloading this cartridge?

This is a long-answer question, and if more than one good answer is received, the most complete will win. And note that the Wikipedia article will not answer all of the question

[Cuts]

I believe that this is my question then:

The 9mm Parabellum cartridge is an accident of design; it should never have been. How and why did it come about? What was it based on? And for bonus sweeties, what are the implications for handloading this cartridge?

This is a long-answer question, and if more than one good answer is received, the most complete will win. And note that the Wikipedia article will not answer all of the question



I've been told to sit on my hands for this one :cry:

[Tsolias]

It's a 7.65 Parabellum cartridge without the neck.
When handloading 9mm Para, seating depth and consistent crimp are even more important than in other cartridges, due to the minimal or non-existant airspace over the powder.

[Man of Stoat]

It's a 7.65 Parabellum cartridge without the neck.
When handloading 9mm Para, seating depth and consistent crimp are even more important than in other cartridges, due to the minimal or non-existant airspace over the powder.

OK, that's 1/2 the answer, and the bonus bit - the crux of the question is WHY is it a 7.65 Para without the neck?

[Man of Stoat]

It also appears that I forgot that I'd written something in the Arrsepedia about this subject.

I hang my head in shame as a total mong, and will admit that I desperately need to go on holiday.

[Dani]

...and will admit that I desperately need to go on holiday.

Now you are back! Tell us who should post the next quiz?

[Man of Stoat]

Tsolias didn't answer the whole question - the reason that it came about was that Georg Luger didn't want to completely re-tool for a completely different cartridge. By not necking the 7.65 Para case, all he needed to change was the barrel. This saved him a lot of money and effort, and left us with an awkward cartridge, which is still the most popular in the world.

Thus, I believe that it is my question again. Something that should not be googlable:

What's this? Name, and what it actually is, i.e. how it is constructed (click on thumbnail image to see full-size):

http://x7.putfile.com/9/24415504932-thumb.jpg (http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=9/24415504932.jpg&s=x7)

Cuts should probably sit on his hands again. :P

[american sniper]

wow this is hard i going to guess that it is a ww2 gun, but i dont know if it was allie or german or what

[PzKpfw VI Tiger]

It kind of looks like some model of an AK-47 but those weren't designed until '47

[Man of Stoat]

It kind of looks like some model of an AK-47 but those weren't designed until '47

I think that you should go to an optician to get your eyes tested ;)

[PzKpfw VI Tiger]

Just had that done yesterday mate :lol:

[Man of Stoat]

Just had that done yesterday mate :lol:

No, seriously - why do you think that it looks anything like an AK47 at all???

[Firefly]

Possibly an AT type rifle with a magazine?

[Man of Stoat]

Possibly an AT type rifle with a magazine?

Nope.

HINT: Caliber - .303" British

[Firefly]

The expperimental self loading .303?

http://www.rememuseum.org.uk/arms/rifles/armaslr.htm

Weapon 71

[2nd of foot]

It’s the self-loading mechanism but on a different rifle?

Is it a SMLE converted to an LMG with the self-loading mechanism?

[Man of Stoat]

Firefly - close: the one in the REME collection is a Reider Automatic Rifle from South Africa.

2nd of foot: Even closer, but I'm looking for a name and some details.

[Topor]

Charlton auto rifle.

[Man of Stoat]

Charlton auto rifle.

Correct!

A New Zealand design, using old Lee-Metfords and Lee-Enfields (the long ones).

Your question.

[Topor]

Oh bugger :wink:

Back in a bit............

[Topor]

Toasted by Guderain, yet denigrated by his own side.
This man did more to advance the concept of armoured conflict than any other.
His ideas played a vital part in the Normandy campaign.

Who?

[FluffyBunnyGB]

Basil Liddell Hart

[Topor]

Basil Liddell Hart

Nope :wink:

[Fuchs66]

Aha that would be that funny chap General Percy Hobart.

[Topor]

Aha that would be that funny chap General Percy Hobart.

Yep.

Your turn

[Dani]

Aha that would be that funny chap General Percy Hobart.

Yep.

Your turn

Fuchs66, are you there? :wink:

[Fuchs66]

Ha missed that ok here goes:

What chemical agent is also known as S-Lost and Yperit and what are the origins of these names?

[pdf27]

Ha missed that ok here goes:

What chemical agent is also known as S-Lost and Yperit and what are the origins of these names?
Yperite is Mustard Gas, so called because it was famously used at Ypres on the western front? Not sure why the S-Lost though, I'm guessing because of the Sulphur content.

[Firefly]

Too easy that one

Mustard Gas, origin of S-LOST is there too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas

Although, not mentioned here, at a guess is was first used at Ypres or Wipers as my old great grandad used to call it.

[Fuchs66]

Well with a joint effort you got it right:

Yperite is Mustard Gas, so called because it was famously used at Ypres on the western front? Not sure why the S-Lost though, I'm guessing because of the Sulphur content.

Mustard gas - almost right

Ypres- first major use and hence the name Yperit

and sulpur content, correct to give it it's correct name 2,2'-dichlorodiethyl sulfide or sulphur-mustard (as opposed to the various other mustard agents)

Too easy that one

Mustard Gas, origin of S-LOST is there too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas

Although, not mentioned here, at a guess is was first used at Ypres or Wipers as my old great grandad used to call it.

and yes the Wiki entry gives the origin of the name Lost: derived from the names Lommel and Steinkopf.

The name Yperit was used in the French and Russian speaking/influenced world and S-Lost in West Germany so in Germany during the Cold War the GDR referred to it as Yperit and the FRG as S-Lost. Still leads to "discussions" between military chemists.

OK as it was a joint answer I would suggest a joint question from the pair of you.

[Firefly]

PDF can have the next question, if he wants it.

[pdf27]

Most kind.
All right then, another photo quiz. This is a well known WW2 engine, but what is it? Oh, and if you're one of the usual suspects or obviously recognise it straight off I'll be expecting chapter and verse on how it works ;)
http://img287.imageshack.us/img287/359/ww2icquizpdf276tv.jpg

[Firefly]

Hmm, was it ever used in a Tank?

[Fuchs66]

OK wild stab in the dark (no that's not a description of me) Rolls Royce Merlin.

[BDL]

It's a Rolls Royce Meteor, a downrated Merlin used to power many British tanks. It is on display at the Royal Tank Regiment Museum at Bovington, Dorset. if you press a little button on the display, the fan spins round and a loudspeaker plays the sound of one standing up.

[Firefly]

Oh, youve spoiled my Tank clue, didnt it power the Cromwell and Comet?

[BDL]

Oh, youve spoiled my Tank clue, didnt it power the Cromwell and Comet?

It did, and the Centurion and Conquerer to, IIRC.

(It also powered a drag tractor that one of the REME lads at my last place built).

Of course, it might not be a Meteor, and I could have made myself look like a right cock with my last post :?

[Firefly]

True, but as thats what I thought it was too, we will be Cocks together!

[BDL]

True, but as thats what I thought it was too, we will be Cocks together!

Careful - last time a Crab said that to me it ended badly :wink:

[Firefly]

Sorry I mean Dicks together er no how about just plain fools.

[BDL]

Sorry I mean Dicks together er no how about just plain fools.
:lol:

[pdf27]

Of course, it might not be a Meteor, and I could have made myself look like a right cock with my last post :?
Yep, it isn't a Meteor at all :D
I will give you a hint though - this engine was never as far as I'm aware used in a tank.

[BDL]

Of course, it might not be a Meteor, and I could have made myself look like a right cock with my last post :?
Yep, it isn't a Meteor at all :D
I will give you a hint though - this engine was never as far as I'm aware used in a tank.

Ah bollocks, it's the spitting image of the one in Bovvie.

[pdf27]

Ah bollocks, it's the spitting image of the one in Bovvie.
I'm feeling sympathetic to you all, so here are a couple of hints:
1) That engine is in the correct upright position, not on it's side or anything
2) It isn't a Rolls-Royce product.

(BTW, consider yourselves lucky, I was looking for an image of the R-R Crecy but couldn't find one - shame, because they had that producing 5,000 BHP from a 2-stroke diesel!)

Edit: While I think about it, isn't the chopped down propeller on one end sufficient hint it isn't a tank engine???

[BDL]

[Edit: While I think about it, isn't the chopped down propeller on one end sufficient hint it isn't a tank engine???

You'd think :oops:

[Fuchs66]

OK another bash:

Napier Sabre

[pdf27]

Yep!
The cylinders are in an H-form, which is why you can see two sets of cylinder heads in the photo.

[Firefly]

Bristol Hercules?
As powered the Bristol Freighter.

Mind you if so, it never got into service untill dec 45, so its a bit of a trick question as it isnt ww2?

Tell me Im a Cock!

[Firefly]

Damn, ok Im a Cock!

Bloody good question though, you dont know how long I spent on this one!

[Fuchs66]

:lol:

Hurra, but you'll have to wait for the next question as I am sacking it for tonight. Be back tomorrow for something a bit more tricky on the NBC side of things.

[Fuchs66]

OK we all know about the development of organo-phosphate nerve agents by the Germans during the 30s and 40s but which other country developed a nerve agent independently from the German work AND had significant stocks of this agent at the end of the war?

Name the country and the agent.

[Tsolias]

UK-VX nerve agent?

[Fuchs66]

UK-VX nerve agent?

yes and no

V agents were first developed at the start of the 50s by ICI in the UK and Bayer in Germany.

[pdf27]

The only nerve agents I'm aware of are the G- and V- classes. The V- agents all seem to stem from work at ICI in the 1950s, and I can't find any references to any one other than the Germans getting G- agents before the end of WW2.

Best guess is that you're being sneaky and the "significant stocks" are the German Tabun stocks captured by the Soviets. As to what the agent they developed is, would a mycotoxin like "yellow rain" count as a nerve agent? That's the best I can come up with anyway - this question certainly seems to have beaten Google :D

Edit: dammit, I can't read - stocks of the agent they developed. Oh well, mycotoxins are still my best guess.

[Fuchs66]

The only nerve agents I'm aware of are the G- and V- classes.

True but this agent tends to get seperated from both these classes, but is chemically similar

Best guess is that you're being sneaky and the "significant stocks" are the German Tabun stocks captured by the Soviets. As to what the agent they developed is, would a mycotoxin like "yellow rain" count as a nerve agent? That's the best I can come up with anyway - this question certainly seems to have beaten Google

Oh yes I am being sneaky but wrong again re Tabun the stocks of this agent existed before any Tabun fell into allied hands. Mycotoxin is as the name says a toxin and is as such normally classified as a biological agent. I thought it would be a Google beater. :lol:

[pdf27]

Oh yes I am being sneaky
Thinking sideways and backwards, DDT? It's an Organophosphate (i.e. Nerve Agent) but relatively non-toxic to humans. Not sure on the country, but I would assume the US for production reasons. The UK certainly made massive use of it, and I'd be shocked if the US didn't.

[Fuchs66]

Thinking sideways and backwards, DDT?

Nope sorry, this agent was intended to be used as a tactical mix with sulphur mustard but as far as I know was never weaponised on a large scale and as soon as the G-agents were captured and found to be more effective was rapidly forgotten about although I have had to demil one shell containing this agent so they were around.

[Fuchs66]

Hmmm seems to have people stumped this one (at last) ok now for clue time:

The agent in question is known by it's chemical name (no jazzy codenames like the German stuff) or a 3 letter abbreviation.

It is to be found in Google (with a bit of luck).

If no one gets it by Monday I'll reveal all (well give you the answer anyway).

[Fuchs66]

Last chance :lol: :lol:

[Bladensburg]

I know it's not exactly a nerve agent but you don't mean something simple like CO2 do you Fuchs?