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[Misc] World War II Codenames Pub Quiz Questions



jakarta

jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,630
Sullington
A good friend of mine runs a Monthly Pub Quiz at the Frankland Arms and in a moment of boredom I said I would help set some questions for him, as a Second World War Bore I thought why don't I ask what these WWII Codenames represent?

Emailed them to him and he got 10 of the 12 but he used to be a History Lecturer so that was to be expected.

As a clue they are pretty much in chronological order...

1. Dynamo
2. Sealion
3. Barbarossa
4. Operation Z
5. Torch
6. Chastise
7. Uranus
8. (3 Parter) Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam (bonus point for link between these)
9. (3 Parter) Gee, Oboe and H2S (no bonus point)
10. Window
11. (3 Parter) Overlord, Pluto and Mulberry (no bonus point)
12. Fat Man and Little Boy

Please don't Google the answers! :p

Off You Go....
 




drew

drew

Drew
Oct 3, 2006
23,067
Burgess Hill
jakarta said:
A good friend of mine runs a Monthly Pub Quiz at the Frankland Arms and in a moment of boredom I said I would help set some questions for him, as a Second World War Bore I thought why don't I ask what these WWII Codenames represent?

Emailed them to him and he got 10 of the 12 but he used to be a History Lecturer so that was to be expected.

As a clue they are pretty much in chronological order...

1. Dynamo
2. Sealion German invasion of Britain (aborted)
3. Barbarossa German invasion of Russia
4. Operation Z
5. Torch
6. Chastise
7. Uranus
8. (3 Parter) Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam (bonus point for link between these) bombing of Tirpitz?
9. (3 Parter) Gee, Oboe and H2S (no bonus point)
10. Window
11. (3 Parter) Overlord, Pluto and Mulberry (no bonus point) D-day landings
12. Fat Man and Little Boy The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan

Please don't Google the answers! :p

Off You Go....
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Hopefully their right. Haven't heard of any of the others.
 


RossyG

RossyG

Well-known member
Dec 20, 2014
2,630
3 = German invasion of Russia

12 = Atomic bombs.

And I’m afraid that’s the limit of my knowledge on this. (Well, I know Overlord is D-Day, but not the other two)
 


happypig

happypig

Staring at the rude boys
May 23, 2009
7,971
Eastbourne
Dynamo was Dunkirk wasn’t it ?
Number 8 was 617 squadron (dambusters) I think.
11 was d-day. Pluto was pipeline under the ocean, the fuel supply to Normandy and mulberry was the floating harbour.
Was 10 the dropping of foil by the raf to fool German radar on d day ?
 








jakarta

jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,630
Sullington
Lets give this another 24 hours. Can I just add that Question 6 and the first part of 8 are directly linked.

I will be even more generous, Chastise couldn't have taken place WITHOUT Upkeep.
 










R

rippleman

Well-known member
Oct 18, 2011
4,570
Wasn't Uranus (7) the Russian operation that cut off the nazis at Stalingrad?

Chastise the Dambusters
 








jakarta

jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,630
Sullington
happypig said:
Dynamo was Dunkirk wasn’t it ?
Number 8 was 617 squadron (dambusters) I think.
11 was d-day. Pluto was pipeline under the ocean, the fuel supply to Normandy and mulberry was the floating harbour.
Was 10 the dropping of foil by the raf to fool German radar on d day ?
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All correct with caveat that Window wasn't just used on D Day, the world's first electronic warfare countermeasure was indeed strips of aluminium foil!

As you can probably tell I have pretty well finished my paid work if I'm doing all these replies at 9AM... :lolol:
 






SeagullinExile

SeagullinExile

Well-known member
Sep 10, 2010
5,699
London
jakarta said:
Tantalisingly close, it was in North Africa but neither Tobruk nor El Alamein (my Grandad was at the latter!)
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As was my Grandfather.
 


Dr Q

Dr Q

Well-known member
Jul 29, 2004
1,793
Ilkley
9 was radio positioning systems for bombing

Used to drink in a pub in Conwy Marina called the Mulberry, as it was one of the places they built parts of the harbour
 


B

Bulldog

Well-known member
Sep 25, 2010
749
jakarta said:
A good friend of mine runs a Monthly Pub Quiz at the Frankland Arms and in a moment of boredom I said I would help set some questions for him, as a Second World War Bore I thought why don't I ask what these WWII Codenames represent?

Emailed them to him and he got 10 of the 12 but he used to be a History Lecturer so that was to be expected.

As a clue they are pretty much in chronological order...

1. Dynamo (Dunkirk evacuation)
2. Sealion (German invasion of England)
3. Barbarossa (German invasion of Russia)
4. Operation Z
5. Torch (Anglo American landings in north Africa)
6. Chastise
7. Uranus (Russian operation to encircle German occupied Stalingrad)
8. (3 Parter) Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam (bonus point for link between these) (erm, bombs or bombing raids, connection Barnes Wallace)
9. (3 Parter) Gee, Oboe and H2S (no bonus point)
10. Window (Radar chaff?)
11. (3 Parter) Overlord, Pluto and Mulberry (no bonus point) D, day, pipe line under the ocean, mulberry harbour)
12. Fat Man and Little Boy (Atomic bombs dropped on Japan)

Please don't Google the answers! :p

Off You Go....
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Good quiz, love a good war quiz me.
 




Papak

Papak

Not an NSC licker...
Jul 11, 2003
1,909
Horsham
No. 8 - Operation Gland Slam was Goldfinger's plan to steal all the gold from Fort Knox nothing to do with WW2, get your facts straight OP.
 




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