Trivia

[nnuut]

I had this one, couldn't sit up without throwing up!
[h=2]1957 – 1958[/h]In February 1957, a new flu virus was identified in the Far East. Immunity to this strain was rare in people younger than 65. A pandemic was predicted. To prepare, health officials closely monitored flu outbreaks. Vaccine production began in late May 1957 and was available in limited supply by August 1957.
In the summer of 1957, the virus came to the United States quietly with a series of small outbreaks. When children returned to school in the fall, they spread the disease in classrooms and brought it home to their families. Infection rates peaked among school children, young adults, and pregnant women in October 1957. By December 1957, the worst seemed to be over.
However, another wave of illness came in January and February of 1958. This is an example of the potential "second wave" of infections that can happen during a pandemic.
Most influenza–and pneumonia–related deaths occurred between September 1957 and March 1958. Although the 1957 pandemic was not as devastating as the 1918 pandemic, about 69,800 people in the United States died. The elderly had the highest rates of death.
Pandemic Flu History | Flu.gov#

 

[PessOptimist]

Interesting, little ship of dreams. I recently found out that an aunt I never knew (she died when Mom was 8 months old) died of the Flu in the 1926 epidemic. Influenza has killed a lot of people over the years. And yeah, I am old.

Another WWI question.

Both sides extensively used a mechanized mode of transport both at the front and in the rear echelons. This mode is usually thought of as a fixed in place one but they made it portable.

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

Correct. it was the Spanish (pandemic) flu of 1918-1919. Some estimates say as many as 50 million died worldwide. In U. S. it affected about 28% of population and 20 % in the world. Killed estimated 675,000 in U. S. and 195,000 in one month. Most deadly to teens and young adults instead of infants and elderly. Thought to be first N1H1 avian flu.


I researched this after seeing pictures of my great aunt at age 18 and hearing family stories that she had died of flu in 1918. Never knew about this but now understand it is considered most devastating epidemic in world history. It was more deadly than the Black Death Bubonic plague of the 1347-1351. See links below for more info.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

 

[PessOptimist]

Influenza

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

What killed half of the U.S. Soldiers in Europe during World War I?

 

[Scout333]

Am I supposed to wait for response? Just checking...

Whoever posts the question decides if the response is correct.

 

[Scout333]

Dreamboat you are correct! The board is all yours!!

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

Am I supposed to wait for response? Just checking...

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

Bump. Hello TSP'rs, Thought we might restore an old favorite. For new members, whoever gets the correct trivia answer gets to post the next trivia question, etc. I happen to like history but we're pretty flexible. Winner gets to choose question and category.

Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

Edward Rutledge..age 26. But 3 months younger than Thomas Lynch who was also 26.

 

[nnuut]

Me!

 

[rcknfrewld]

finally...I have been waiting for Aitrus's question since last September...but this question will do

 

[Scout333]

Bump. Hello TSP'rs, Thought we might restore an old favorite. For new members, whoever gets the correct trivia answer gets to post the next trivia question, etc. I happen to like history but we're pretty flexible. Winner gets to choose question and category.

Who was the youngest person to sign the Declaration of Independence?

 

[konakathy]

Unless I'm missing something, there's 40 squares, 41 if you count the white outside border of the cropped picture.

you got it!!! 40 squares

 

[Aitrus]

Unless I'm missing something, there's 40 squares, 41 if you count the white outside border of the cropped picture.

 

[konakathy]

 

[nasa1974]

** AGE TEST ** do you remember what this thing was on the floorboard?

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Yep! Sure do. Like burro said it always got stuck at the wrong time.

 

[burrocrat]

** AGE TEST ** do you remember what this thing was on the floorboard?

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i have one of those in my current '90 ford stump jumper/creek crawler/shaggin wagon. sometimes it doesn't work, must have a short somewhere. but it makes me feel a whole lot better repeatedly stomping on it while barreling down a dark two track trail early on a moonlit morning heading home.

 

[Aitrus]

"The Battle of Dieppe in World War II was a test for the full-scale invasion of western Europe" and it also said it was a disaster for the Canadians, but gave no reason why.​

Dieppe was the first battle for the Canucks, and took place on 19 Aug 1942. The Allied forces included 5,000 men (mostly Canadian) including two sections of commandos, 30 tanks, and supported by 8 naval destroyers and RAF air superiority. The attack was aimed at the area in and around Dieppe, a town in northern France. It was a disaster for several reasons.

For starters, the beach was unkind to the Churchill tanks. The Churchill was known as a solid, reliable Infantry Tank. Heavy, lots of armor, a medium-bore gun, and not too fast so as to outpace walking infantry (top speed of 15mph). One of the main problems was that out of the 30 tanks involved in the raid's first wave, only 15 made it ashore, and all 15 were disabled by either enemy fire or the rounded shingle rocks on the beach. The rocks got into the tank treads and threw them off, which turned the tanks into pillboxes with limited ammo. To give you an idea of the kind of rocks, imagine the perfect "skipping rock" - flat, round, and about the size of your palm. Now imagine a beach that's waist-deep in the things.

The second thing that went wrong was that the intel on the German forces was woefully inadequate. This was the same intel that said that the beach would be a perfect landing site.

Lastly, the naval gun and RAF bombings that were supposed to soften up the enemy before the landings didn't do it's job - the guns were off-target and the RAF wasn't accurate or had nearly enough planes involved. Worse, the landing was supposed to have air superiority, but the RAF never pulled it off. The bombardments also happened 10 hours before the landings, which gave the defenders plenty of time to recover.

In the end, of the 5,000 men that were sent in, 3,367 men were either dead or prisoners. The first landings happened at 0700, and the battle was over by 1230.

The reason this battle was important was because the lessons learned from this battle were the keystones in planning the D-Day landings (even though they weren't initially meant as such). The Dieppe raid was the first tentative try on the part of the Allies to establish the possibility of invading Europe following a beach landing. Everything about the Dieppe raid was theoretical - nothing like it had been tried on a large scale before. For D-Day, the beach conditions and present enemy were better researched, the bombing campaign was better timed and executed, and air superiority was gained and maintained, as well as a hundred other nuances.

Dieppe was a battle that we lost, but it's a battle we needed to lose so we could learn from it in order to win a bigger, more important one.

 

[konakathy]

Question:

What was the first major battle that the Canadians fought in WWII, and the lessons learned from that defeat were applied to which later major engagement?

"The Battle of Dieppe in World War II was a test for the full-scale invasion of western Europe" and it also said it was a disaster for the Canadians, but gave no reason why.​

 

[Aitrus]

Oh, no worries. It's just a game.

Now on to your trivia question - I don't have an answer. I'd have to google that one. I don't speak Canuck.

I speak Canuck kinda well, eh. It's ok to google this one. Not many who aren't WWII buffs would know the answer.