The Blitz

Question 1

London Population 1939

Answer 1

8.6 million

Question 2

City of London

Answer 2

Home to telephone exchange - damage communications.

Question 3

Anderson Shelter price to wealthy

Answer 3

£7

Question 4

evacuation numbers

Answer 4

1.3 million on trains
600,000 on buses
By March 1940 only 300,000 still evacuated

Question 5

Casualties first Blitz

Answer 5

20,000 killed
1,150,000 houses destroyed

Question 6

Blitz 1 time frame

Answer 6

7/09/40 (57 consecutive nights of bombing) - 11/05/41

Question 7

Britain took down _ aircraft per month in january to april 1944

Answer 7

70

Question 8

Little Blitz casualties

Answer 8

1500

Question 9

Parachute Mines Quirk

Answer 9

Magnet targetted, designed to sink ships

Question 10

Little Blitz Evacuations

Answer 10

559,000 in July 1944

Question 11

Little Blitz sleeping in underground

Answer 11

81,240 per night in July 1944

Question 12

Topic Collectors

Answer 12

A team of paid officials which report conversations they hear and behaviours they observe

Question 13

Personal Writing

Answer 13

A national panel of volunteers who were recruited to respond to questionnaires or write diaries.

Question 14

Major reformed shelter

Answer 14

Aldwych

Question 15

Lord Horder

Answer 15

Initiated investigations into life in shelters

Question 16

End Of War number of vegetable plots

Answer 16

2,000,000 - 700,000 before