The First World War Quiz
Twenty questions on the First World War. How well do you know your history?
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About this quiz
The causes, the battles, the home front and how it ended.
- Questions
- 20, with 20 seconds for each. Faster answers score more.
- Difficulty
- Easy to start, harder towards the end
- Covers
- Events
- Remembrance
- Battles
- People
- Ending
- Causes
- Weapons
- Alliances
- Home front
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- On your own for a score, on a leaderboard with your group, or live on a call with phones as the buzzers. Free, with no sign‑up.
Warm-up questions
Not part of the quiz, so peek at the answers all you like.
- 1Soldiers
What nickname was given to ordinary British soldiers?
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BTommies
American soldiers were doughboys, Australians and New Zealanders diggers, and French soldiers poilus.
- 2Trenches
What was the ground between the opposing front-line trenches called?
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DNo man's land
In places it was only a few dozen metres wide.
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