Bill O'Reilly: News Quiz

1. On May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was sunk by what?

Torpedo

Anti-aircraft missile

Iceberg

Faulty radar

Cannon fire

2. What did Germany invent to compete against the British Royal Navy, the largest in the world?

Nuclear submarine

U-boat submarine

Aircraft carrier

Steam powered engine

Fusion engine

3. How did Germany justify an attack on a merchant ship?

Treaty of Ghent

Easy target

Misidentified

British arming merchant ships

Pre-issued warning

4. The Lusitania carried passengers and what else from the United States?

Iron ore

Ammunition

Military plans

Secret agents

Food

5. Who resigned over the crisis of the Lusitania?

Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison

Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels

Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan

Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield

Associate Justice Louis Brandeis

6. In what year did the U.S. declare war on Germany during World War I?

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

7. What famous telegram was used to rally the American people to join World War I?

Mexican Telegram

Russian Telegram

Zimmerman Telegram

Bismarck Telegram

Wilson Telegram

8. Whose assassination led to the start of World War I?

General Pershing

Henry Cabot Lodge

Tsar Nicholas

Lord Balfour

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

9. Who led American Expeditionary Forces on September 12, 1918, on their first independent offensive in World War I?

General Ferdinand Foch

General Joseph Gallieni

General John J. Pershing

General Williams S. Graves

General Frank McIntyre

10. What revolution occurred in Russia concurrently with World War I?

Red Revolution

Winter Revolution

Fabergé Revolution

February Revolution

Tsar Revolution

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