Context

Question 1

How many children never saw their fathers again?

Answer 1

300,00

Question 2

How many British soldiers died on day one of the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 2

60,000

Question 3

How many volunteers did the British Government ask for?? How many did it get?

Answer 3

100,000

750,000

Question 4

How many VAD’s were there in 1914?

Answer 4

74,000

Question 5

How many cases of shell shock was here in the British Army?

Answer 5

80,000

Question 6

How many men had limbs amputated?

Answer 6

41,000

Question 7

What did women hand out to men who didn’t fight? What was this a sign of?

Answer 7

White Feathers

Sign of Cowardice

Question 8

When did the Battle of Marne begin?

Answer 8

September 1914

Question 9

When was the first Battle of Ypres?

Answer 9

October 1914

Question 10

When did allied troops land in Gallipolli?

Answer 10

April 1915

Question 11

When did the Battle of the Loos start?

Answer 11

September 1915

Question 12

When was conscription introduced in Britain?

Answer 12

January 1916

Question 13

When did Germany sign the armistice?

Answer 13

November 1918

Question 14

What was Craiglockhart?

Answer 14

A hospital used for those suffering with neurosis

Question 15

When did Wilfred Owen die?

Answer 15

One week before the signing of the armistice

Question 16

When did Rupert Brooke die? And what of?

Answer 16

Before he fought at war

Sepsis from an infected mosquito bite

Question 17

How many letters were delivered to the front every week?

Answer 17

12 million

Question 18

When did Britain declare war on Germany?

Answer 18

August 1914

Question 19

How old was the youngest soldier?

Answer 19

12

Question 20

How many military personnel were killed?

Answer 20

About 10 million

Question 21

How many military and civilian casualties?

Answer 21

37 million

Question 22

When was the start of the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 22

July 1916

Question 23

When did Lloyd George become prime minister?

Answer 23

December 1916

Question 24

Who survived war?

Answer 24

Sassoon

Question 25

When did the USA join the war?

Answer 25

April 1917

Question 26

When did the British tanks win a victory at Cambrai?

Answer 26

November 1917

Question 27

Who was conscription imposed on?

Answer 27

All single men aged 18 - 41

Married men a few months later

Question 28

What did the age for conscription go up to? And in what year?

Answer 28

56

In 1918

Question 29

Who did the conscription act exempt?

Answer 29

Those who were medically unfit, clergymen, teachers and certain classes of industrial workers

Question 30

What does VAD stand for? What were they?

Answer 30

Voluntary Aid Detachment

A voluntary unit providing field nursing services, mainly in hospitals in the UK

Question 31

When did Thomas Hardy begin writing patriotic verse?

Answer 31

Start of WW1

Question 32

What was advancing during the war? And what was at the forefront of this trend?

Answer 32

Industrial Developments

Military Technology

Question 33

What was seen and used on a large scale during war?

Answer 33

Chemical warfare

Question 34

When did WW1 initially begin? Who declared war on who?

Answer 34

July 28th 1914

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

Question 35

What was the middle part of the war dominated by?

Answer 35

Continued trench warfare in the east and west

Question 36

What was one/the main gases used to kill?

Answer 36

Mustard Gas