War trivia questions and answers with stuff like Eva Braun, Bunker Hill, Union, Mexican Army, and more.

What was the name of the barbaric German tribe that overran Gaul, Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in the fifth century?
A: The Vandals.

Why did U.S. secret agents abandon plans--approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt--to drop live bats from airplanes to frighten the Japanese during World War II?
A: The bats froze at high altitudes, before they could be released.

What unsung role did William Dawes and Samuel Prescott play in American history?
A: They accompanied Paul Revere on his celebrated midnight ride to warn their countrymen that "the British are coming."

Why was infantryman (and actor-to-be) James Arness picked to go first when the troops aboard his landing craft splashed ashore during the Allied attack at Anzio during World War II?
A: At 6 feet 6, he was the tallest man in his outfit--and his commanding officer wanted to know just how deep the water was.

What was the profession of Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun?
A: Photographer's assistant.

During the Civil War, how many states fought for the Union; and how many for the Confederacy?
A: For the Union, 23; for the Confederacy, 11.

What two nations were involved in a year-long conflict that was popularly now as the Pastry War?
A: France and Mexico in 1838. It was triggered by Mexico's refusal to pay for damage done by Mexican army officers to a restaurant run by a French pastry chef in Tacubaya, now a section of Mexico City.

What president ordered the integration of America's armed forces?
A: Harry S. Truman, in 1948.

What famous American signed the Treaty of Kanagawa?
A: Commodore Matthew C. Perry, on March 31, 1854. The treaty opened Japan to western trade.

Adolf Hitler called his country home Eagle's Nest. What name did Winston Churchill give to his?
A: Cosy Pig, although it was formally known as Chartwell.

What American billionaire tried to airlift 28 tons of medicine and Christmas gifts to American POWs in North Vietnam n 1969?
A: Ross Perot.

Charles de Gaulle served as ghost-writer of the book "The Soldier" for what famous World War I military hero?
A :Marshal Philippe Petain, whose 1945 death sentence for collaboration during WWII was commuted by de Gaulle to life imprisonment.

Where was the Battle of Bunker Hill actually fought in June 1775?
A: On Breed's hill, southeast of Bunker hill.

What was the Allies' password on D-Day?
A: "Mickey Mouse".

What American military leader said, "Lafayette we are here," and on what occasion?
A: Gen. Black Jack Pershing, arriving in France in 1917 after the U.S. entered WWI.

What physical ailment is said to have contributed to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo?
A: Hemorrhoids, which prevented him from surveying the battlefield on horseback.

What war was the first to have authorized film coverage?
A: The Boer War (1899-1902).

Why did Caedwalla, King of Gwynedd (north Wales), order his soldiers to wear leeks fastened to  heir helmets when they battled the troops of Kind Edwin of Northumbria in 632 A.D.?
A: So he could tell his men from the enemy. Caedwalla was victorious, Edwin was slain, and the leek later became the national emblem of Wales.