Wars quiz
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Which Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants to attack Rome?
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Where did Soviet missiles spark a crisis with the US in 1962?
Answer: Cuba
Why: The USSR withdrew its missiles from Cuba, while the US secretly agreed to remove its missiles from Turkey, ending a crisis that threatened nuclear war.
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During which war did the famous Charge of the Light Brigade occur?
Answer: Crimean War
Why: A garbled order sent the brigade down the wrong valley into massed artillery, and Tennyson had it in verse within weeks.
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Which army accidentally attacked itself during a 1788 night retreat at Karánsebes?
Answer: Austrian army
Why: No account of the schnapps quarrel predates an 1831 army journal, 43 years on, and casualty estimates range from 150 to 10,000.
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What was the primary weapon used by Japanese Kamikaze pilots?
Answer: Their aircraft
Why: The name means divine wind, after the storms that wrecked two Mongol invasion fleets in the thirteenth century.
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What animal did the Soviet Union train to carry bombs under tanks?
Answer: Dogs
Why: Soviet sources claimed around 300 German tanks were damaged this way, a figure many Russian historians now dismiss as propaganda.
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Which WWII unit used inflatable tanks to deceive German forces?
Answer: Ghost Army
Why: It carried inflatable tanks, sound trucks and fake radio traffic, and its work stayed classified for over forty years.
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