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During the First World War, British scientists manufactured bullets which left a phosphorescent trail to let soldiers see their trajectory in the dark. What is the name of this technology?
Foresight bullets
Tracer bullets
Dragon bullets
Streaker bullets
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What is the name of this technology of bombs that dropped from naval ships to explode enemy submarines beneath the waves?
Depth charges
Bubble bombs
Wave skimmers
Sea grenades
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What is the name of the World War One battle which saw the first mass use of poison gas as a weapon of war?
The First Battle of Ypres
The Battle of the Somme
The Battle of Flers Couclette
The Battle of Nice
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What is the name of this famous scientist who built the first respirator gas masks following the gas attacks of the Germans in World War One?
Charles Penelope Gautier
Winfield Scott
Thomas Edison
John Scott Haldane
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What is the common name for the mass-use sulfur gas which Germans used in World War One to kill thousands of unprepared troops?
Mustard gas
Brimstone gas
Faustus gas
Nightmare gas
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What is the name of this type of device which saw heavy use in World War One to fire a steady stream of incendiary liquids at an opponent?
The dragon's head
Lava spitter
Flamethrower
Sun shooter
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Flamethrowers in World War One typically used what inflammable substance to propel their flames?
Saline
Water
Nitrogen
Oxygen gas
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What is the German name for the flamethrower?
Flambetnaust
Flammenwerfer
Flamgenwaffen
Flamspitz
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Starting in World War One, battles between two airplanes became known by what nickname?
Harefights
Hawkfights
Catfights
Dogfights
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What is the nickname of the famous German ace of World War One named Manfred von Richthofen who demonstrated to the world the deadly efficiency of airplanes in warfare?
The Red Baron
The Blue Baron
The Green Baron
The Yellow Baron
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This symbol, when painted on the wings of a plane in World War One, symbolized affiliation with what nation's flying corps?
France
Germany
U.S.A.
U.K.
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What is the name of this one-seat German war plane which dominated the skies during World War One with its revolutionary synchronized machine guns?
The Fokker Eindecker
The P-92 Sturmbaugh
The Mercedes Air-Modal
The Lindt Mk II
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What is the name of this style of metal-frame airship which was a tool of bombing and scouting campaigns during World War One?
Zeppelin
Geppelin
Heppelin
Keppelin
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Zeppelin airships received their name from what German engineer who designed them?
Peter Zeppel
Michael Zeppeli
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Thomas Zeppelini
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In spite of German protest about their ethics, Americans popularized what "crass" type of firearm for military use in World War One?
Revolvers
Light machine guns
Shotguns
Repeating rifles
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Much of the fighting in World War One was done via trench warfare. What is the name of the area of dangerous desolate land between two opposing trenches?
No man's land
The dead zone
The funeral march
The fodder fields
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The Dutch inventor Anthony Fokker invented what technology which allowed planes to fire machine guns through the blades of their propellers without issue?
The pass-through switch
The interrupter gear
The hummingbird propeller
The cloud-line machine gun
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What is the name of the gratuitous field of sea mines which the U.S.A. and U.K. set up from Norway to the Orkney Islands to halt German subs?
The Orkney Pool
The North Sea Barrage
The Cactus Pool
The Cold Front
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Guerre de Course is a term for a tactic that reigned supreme in World War One. What does the term refer to?
War against merchants
War against civilians
War against port towns
War against agriculture
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British Mark I Tanks were first introduced in World War One during which battle that was technically a part of the Battle of the Somme?
The Battle of Cambrai
Te Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Passchendaele
The Battle of Flers Couclette
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What famous French car engineer designed the FT tank which became the basis for most contemporary tank designs?
Jules Dupuit
Louis Renault
Laze Carnot
Alfred-Marie Lienard
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What is the name of this primitive weapon which was the first ever recoil operated machine gun and which saw use in the early period of World War One?
The Browning L.M.G.
The Gravel Gun
The Pepper Gun
The Maxim Gun
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Which of the following terms, which is French for "mowing fire," referred to the World War One tactic of shooting machine guns in elliptical patterns to cover more ground?
Dux Larien
Feu Fauchant
Jil Jilliette
Pat Patonte
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What is the name of this incredibly powerful German light machine gun which began to see use on the battlefields in 1917 to deadly effect?
The MH11/99
The MG08/15
The MT10/44
The MP72/12
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What is the name of this famous American engineer who invented namesake machine guns and automatic rifles American soldiers used at the very end of World War One?
John Browning
Daniel Fenworth
Elijah Hill
Henry Ford
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In what year would poison gas become officially banned from use in warfare after its reign of terror in World War One?
1930
1935
1920
1925
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This weapon is called the MP 18. It was the first gun of what classification to ever see widespread use in warfare during World War One?
Assault rifle
Shotgun
Light machine gun
Submachine gun
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The MP 18 became the primary weapon of what German military organization responsible for infiltration and hits against enemy targets?
The battery troops
The stormtroopers
The demolitions squad
The guerrilla marchers
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Which of the following is the anglicized name which U.K. forces called German submarines in World War One?
Subwaffens
U-Boats
Torpedo scouts
Swim searchers
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What was the German name for their World War One tactic of naval guerrilla warfare using U-Boats?
Evetkrieg
Gapkrieg
Sulkrieg
Kleinkrieg
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