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Military Trivia

From ancient phalanxes to modern Navy SEALs, prove you're the ultimate armchair general before you get a section 8.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

The U.S. Army is primarily responsible for fighting in what kind of environment?

Land

What was the name of the German cipher machine whose messages Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park worked to decipher during World War II?

Enigma

Which teenage French heroine helped lift the English siege of Orléans in 1429?

Joan of Arc

What was the famous unofficial 1914 pause in fighting during World War I, when soldiers exchanged greetings and sometimes met in No Man’s Land, called?

Christmas Truce

What medieval siege engine used a heavy counterweight to hurl stones over city walls?

Trebuchet