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War and Military trivia questions and answers.

What state was the setting of the Battle of the little Bighorn, where George Armstrong Custer made his infamous last stand?
A: Montana.

What was George Armstrong Custer's rank when he was killed at Little Bighorn in1876.
A: Lieutenant Colonel.

Who fired the first Union shot of the Civil War?
A: Gen. Abner Doubleday, in 1861, at Fort Sumter. He is the same Abner Doubleday who is often incorrectly given credit for inventing baseball.

What nation was the first to use frogmen in warfare?
A: Italy, in December 1941, against the British in the Mediterranean. Three frogmen disabled the British battleships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth, as well as a tanker and a destroyer, in Alexandria harbor.

What did the U.S. military name in honor of American physiologist Ancel Keys?
A: The K ration--the small packet of food, containing all the essential nutrients, that served as emergency rations for soldiers in the field.

What major Japanese company made the famous Zero fighter plane during World war II?
A: Mitsubishi, The company now known for its cars, TVs and hundreds of other products, was prohibited from producing aircraft to seven years after the war.

How long --in days--did the 1991 Persian Gulf War last?
A:42 days from January 16 to February 27.

Translated from Pentagon doublespeak, what is a "combat emplacement evacuator"?
A: A shovel.

The site of what state capital was given to the Marquis de Lafayette for his services during the Revolutionary War?
A: Tallahassee, Florida. Lafayette never occupied the then-wilderness site, but one of the city's early residents was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon Achelle Murat, who married a grandniece of George Washington.

When Adolf Hitler declared himself ruler of the Third Reich, what did he view as Germany's first and second Reich's?
A: The first was the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne; the second was Bismarck's united Germany, declared in 1871 and known as the German Empire.

To celebrate the patriots' success in getting the British to evacuate Boston on this day in 1776, Gen. George Washington chose "Boston" as his army's password of the day. What did he pick as the proper response?
A: St. Patrick.

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