Trivia

[konakathy]

looks like High Beam, Low Beams switch...lol

Winner.

I had no clue what that was. Some sort of clutch was my guess.

 

[Aitrus]

Winner.

I had no clue what that was. Some sort of clutch was my guess.

Whoops, didn't mean to post another quiz while your was still on, Kona. I knew that wvango had it right, so I thought yours was done with. My bad.

 

[konakathy]

Whoops, didn't mean to post another quiz while your was still on, Kona. I knew that wvango had it right, so I thought yours was done with. My bad.

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.

 

[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.

 

[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]

"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.

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[konakathy]

 

[Aitrus]

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

 

[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

 

[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?

 

[rcknfrewld]

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

 

[nnuut]

Me!

 

[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.

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

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

 

[Scout333]

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

 

[Scout333]

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

Whoever posts the question decides if the response is correct.

 

[DreamboatAnnie]

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

 

[PessOptimist]

Influenza