Quiz Mix - Test your knowledge!

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    This is a series of 25 questions aside from the main Quiz 6.

    A good mix of questions here to test your knowledge. I will put them in one at a time.


    1. Who was the founder of the French Resistance group Libération-Sud?
     
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    2. What member of the French Resistance rescued her husband from the Gestapo while over five months pregnant?
     
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    3. Quicksilver was a deception operation mounted to convince the Germans that the main D-Day landing would be where?
     
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    4. Josephine Baker, a famous African-American Broadway star eventually became a secret agent for what country?
     
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    5. What was an "air spy?"
     
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    6. Who was the man known as "Butcher of Lyon," responsible for the deaths of over 4,000 Jews and Resistance fighters?
     
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    7. What was the password used by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> forces on D-Day?
     
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    8. What leader of the French Resistance and leader of the CNR died under the hands of Klaus Barbie?
     
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    9. What is a "bird watcher"?
     
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    10. What was "Operation Overthrow?"
     
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    11. What was the code name for the phony parachute drop north of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Normandy</st1:State></st1:place> on D-Day?
     
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    12. Who were the Red Beret?
     
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    13. Who was head of the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on">Vichy</st1:City> government in the unoccupied, Nazi sympathetic portion of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region></st1:place>?
     
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    14. What deceased French poet's poem was broadcast over the BBC to warn the French Resistance of the coming Allied invasion?
     
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    15. What was the name of the French poem broadcast over the BBC to inform the French Resistance of D-Day?
     
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    16. What was the code name of the British interceptions of German messages sent between Hitler and his field commanders?
     
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    17. What was Enigma?
     
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    18. Who attended the Arcadia Conference held December 1941 thru January 1942?
     
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    19. Symbol was the name of a conference between W. Churchill and F.D. Roosevelt. Where and when was symbol held?
     
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    20. How did Elizabeth Arden help the GI's with the war effort?
     

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