Trivia For November 11, 2025

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20th Century Wars

Question 1:

In August 1990, Iraq invaded this country, kicking off what would become known as the Gulf War.

Kuwait

  • A United States-led coalition conducted the war in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm which liberated Kuwait in February 1991.

Question 2:

The Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 was a conflict between the Red Army representing the Bolsheviks versus a coalition of forces represented by this color.

White

  • The Whites were a big-tent political movement representing an array of political opinions in Russia united in their opposition to the Bolsheviks—from the republican-minded liberals and Kerenskyite social democrats on the left through monarchists and supporters of a united multinational Russia to the ultra-nationalists on the right.

Question 3:

Bangladesh achieved independence from this country following an 8 1/2-month war in 1971.

Pakistan

  • The death toll during the war may have reached upwards of three million people, the result of a systematic campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing by the Pakastani army and paramilitary forces.

Question 4:

Order these World War I events by number (earliest to latest): 1-Gallipoli campaign; 2-U.S.A. declares war against Germany; 3-Battle of the Somme.

1, 3, 2

  • The Gallipolli campaign lasted from February 1915 to January 1916; Somme was fought from July to November 1916; the U.S. entered the war in April 1917.

Question 5:

In what year did the last holdout Japanese soldiers from World War II surrender?

1974

  • Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrendered on Lubang Island in the Philippines in March 1974, while Private Teruo Nakamura on Morotai Island in the Dutch East Indies surrendered in December of that year.

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