WW1

Question 1

when did world war one start?

Answer 1

August 1914

Question 2

how long did soldiers spend at the front line?

Answer 2

15% of the time

Question 3

what is PUO?

Answer 3

pyrexia of unknown origin

Question 4

what is one symptom of trench foot?

Answer 4

blistered feet

Question 5

When was the battle of verdun?

Answer 5

February to December 1916

Question 6

When was the first battle of Ypres?

Answer 6

October to November 1914

Question 7

When was the battle of Cambrai?

Answer 7

November to December 1917

Question 8

What is a Battalion?

Answer 8

A large amount of troops forming part of a brigade

Question 9

What is a Trench?

Answer 9

A long narrow ditch where soilders live

Question 10

What is shrapnel?

Answer 10

Fragments of a bomb thrown out at high speed from an explosion

Question 11

What is chlorine gas?

Answer 11

A biological weapon first used by the Germans at the second battle of ypres

Question 12

Aseptic

Answer 12

A type of surgery that prevents germs reaching wounds

Question 13

Antiseptic

Answer 13

A type of surgery that kills germs in the wound

Question 14

Terrain

Answer 14

The type of ground

Question 15

infection

Answer 15

The process of infecting or state of being infected

Question 16

Blood transfusion

Answer 16

An injection of a volume of blood, previously taken from a healthy person, into a patient

Question 17

Artillery

Answer 17

large calibre guns used in warfare

Question 18

Triage

Answer 18

The system of splitting the wounded into

Question 19

Evacuation

Answer 19

The clearing of a body from the battle ground

Question 20

second battle of Ypres

Answer 20

April - may 1915

Question 21

The first trenches built on both sides of the war

Answer 21

August - September 1914

Question 22

July - November 1916

Answer 22

The Battle of the Somme

Question 23

Summer and Autumn 1918

Answer 23

The final months of the war

Question 24

Third battle of Ypres

Answer 24

July-November 1917