World War I famous fighters – noted people who served

World War I Quiz - Famous Fighters (Questions)

Famous Fighters looks at noted people who served.

People from all walks of life served their countries during the First World War. Miners, farmers, factory workers but also actors, writers and musicians. Many were not famous at the time and would only become so in later years. With the loss of so many young lives we can only wonder what talents were taken from us by the war, never to reach their full potential.

This man, who went on to become Prime Minister of Britain, fought in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War One and rose to the rank of Major. What is his name?

[ ]	Winston Churchill
[ ]	Clement Attlee
[ ]	Neville Chamberlain
[ ]	Stanley Baldwin

This man, Walt Disney, was rejected when he tried to join the army. Why?

[ ]	Because he had poor eyesight
[ ]	Because he was too short
[ ]	Because he had flat-feet
[ ]	Because he was too young

Amelia Earhart worked as a Volunteer Nurse during the war. For what did she later become famous?

[ ]	She was the first woman to reach the South Pole
[ ]	She was the first woman to sail solo around the world
[ ]	She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
[ ]	She was the first woman to swim the English Channel

Adolf Hitler, the future Fuhrer of Germany, fought in World War One. What rank did he reach?

[ ]	Corporal
[ ]	Captain
[ ]	Colonel
[ ]	General

A. A. Milne served as an officer in the British Army during the war. He is famous for creating which character?

[ ]	Rupert the Bear
[ ]	Billy Bunter
[ ]	Winnie the Pooh
[ ]	Alice in Wonderland

Maurice Ravel was rejected as a pilot because of his height, weight, age and health. Instead he worked as a truck driver. In which area was he already famous at the time?

[ ]	He was a composer
[ ]	He was an astronomer
[ ]	He was an actor
[ ]	He was a jockey

P. G. Wodehouse, author of the Jeeves and Wooster books, achieved which dubious honour?

[ ]	He had the most leave of any soldier
[ ]	He served the least hours of any British officer
[ ]	He was the first man to leave Britain when war broke out
[ ]	He was rejected by the armies of two countries

This man served as a Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers during the War. Which fictional characters did he go on to create?

[ ]	Wombles
[ ]	Hobbits
[ ]	Oompah Loompahs
[ ]	The Mr Men

The playwright and novelist, Somerset Maugham, was too old to fight, being 40 years old when war broke out. How did he serve during the war?

[ ]	He broadcast morale-boosting speeches
[ ]	He was a troop entertainer
[ ]	He was a spy
[ ]	He was a map-maker

10.

C.S. Lewis left his studies and arrived on the front line of the Somme on which of his birthdays?

[ ]	His 17th birthday
[ ]	His 18th birthday
[ ]	His 19th birthday
[ ]	His 20th birthday

World War I Quiz - Famous Fighters (Answers)

This man, who went on to become Prime Minister of Britain, fought in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War One and rose to the rank of Major. What is his name?

[ ]	Winston Churchill
[x]	Clement Attlee
[ ]	Neville Chamberlain
[ ]	Stanley Baldwin

Attlee became leader of the Labour Party and was Churchill's deputy during World War Two. In the first general election after the Second World War he became Prime Minister in the first majority Labour government of Britain

This man, Walt Disney, was rejected when he tried to join the army. Why?

[ ]	Because he had poor eyesight
[ ]	Because he was too short
[ ]	Because he had flat-feet
[x]	Because he was too young

He tried to enlist when he was 16 years old but the minimum age was 17. Instead he joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver. By the time his training was over the war had ended but he was still sent to France where ambulances were needed

Amelia Earhart worked as a Volunteer Nurse during the war. For what did she later become famous?

[ ]	She was the first woman to reach the South Pole
[ ]	She was the first woman to sail solo around the world
[x]	She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
[ ]	She was the first woman to swim the English Channel

She held fifteen records for flying. During an attempt to fly around the world in 1937 she disappeared and was presumed dead. No trace of her or her aeroplane have ever been found

Adolf Hitler, the future Fuhrer of Germany, fought in World War One. What rank did he reach?

[x]	Corporal
[ ]	Captain
[ ]	Colonel
[ ]	General

Hitler only rose to the second most junior of ranks, that of Corporal. Despite this lack of promotion, he was twice awarded the Iron Cross for bravery

A. A. Milne served as an officer in the British Army during the war. He is famous for creating which character?

[ ]	Rupert the Bear
[ ]	Billy Bunter
[x]	Winnie the Pooh
[ ]	Alice in Wonderland

Perhaps it was Milne's talent for writing that led to him being transferred from the front line to Military Intelligence, where he was set to work writing propaganda articles

Maurice Ravel was rejected as a pilot because of his height, weight, age and health. Instead he worked as a truck driver. In which area was he already famous at the time?

[x]	He was a composer
[ ]	He was an astronomer
[ ]	He was an actor
[ ]	He was a jockey

Perhaps Ravel's most famous work was his Bolero, first performed in 1928. It was used by British ice-skating pair, Torvill and Dean, in their gold-medal winning Olympic performance of 1984

P. G. Wodehouse, author of the Jeeves and Wooster books, achieved which dubious honour?

[ ]	He had the most leave of any soldier
[ ]	He served the least hours of any British officer
[ ]	He was the first man to leave Britain when war broke out
[x]	He was rejected by the armies of two countries

Wodehouse lived in many countries throughout his life. In World War Two he was detained by the Germans when they occupied France where he was living. He became an American citizen in 1974 and died in England in 1975

This man served as a Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers during the War. Which fictional characters did he go on to create?

[ ]	Wombles
[x]	Hobbits
[ ]	Oompah Loompahs
[ ]	The Mr Men

The man was J.R.R. Tolkien who later achieved fame as the author of The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. His experiences deeply affected him and he wrote in later life, "One has indeed personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead"

The playwright and novelist, Somerset Maugham, was too old to fight, being 40 years old when war broke out. How did he serve during the war?

[ ]	He broadcast morale-boosting speeches
[ ]	He was a troop entertainer
[x]	He was a spy
[ ]	He was a map-maker

He worked undercover in both Switzerland and Russia. He used his experiences when he wrote, "Ashenden: Or the British Agent," a series of short stories about a spy

10.

C.S. Lewis left his studies and arrived on the front line of the Somme on which of his birthdays?

[ ]	His 17th birthday
[ ]	His 18th birthday
[x]	His 19th birthday
[ ]	His 20th birthday

Less than three months later Lewis was wounded and two of his fellow soldiers killed when a British shell landed short of its target. Lewis became most famous for writing the Narnia series of books in the 1950s