Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of D-Day

1. D-day is often used in military parlance to signify what?

Doomsday

End of an operation

Start of an operation

Finding a large weapon cache

Payday

2. What was the D-Day operation called?

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Chicago

Operation Newton

Operation Double Strike

Operation Overlord

3. Where did the Allied invasion of June 6, 1944, take place?

Normandy

Dordogne

Burgundy

Dover

Brittany

4. The Germans had invaded and occupied northern France in May 1940 forcing the British to evacuate from where?

Calais

Dunkirk

Cherbourg

Paris

Lille

5. Canadian, British, and American troops landed on 5 beaches in Northern France on June 6, 1944. They numbered around how many?

12,000

15,000

156,000

200,000

350,000

6. The Americans landed on which beaches at Normandy?

Omaha and Utah

Gold and Juno

Juno and Sword

Sword and Gold

Omaha and Gold

7. The Operation was a success, and took how many months?

One

Two

Three

Ten

Sixteen

8. In order to confuse the Germans, a phantom army was devised and commanded by whom?

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

General Charles de Gaulle

General George Marshall

General George Patton

General Douglas MacArthur

9. The United States entered World War II after what event?

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Bombing of Poland

Annexation of Austria

Invasion of Norway

10. What was the resulting battle of the last major German offensive called?

Battle of Midway

Battle of Brittany

Battle of Berlin

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Arnhem