Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - This Week in History: D-Day

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

Doomsday

The start of an operation

The end of an operation

Finding a large weapon cache

Payday

2. On June 6, 1944, General Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, gave clearance for what?

Operation Overlord

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Chicago

Operation Newton

Operation Double Strike

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

Dordogne

Burgundy

Dover

Normandy

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 on June 6, 1944. They numbered around how many?

12,000

25,000

156,000

200,000

350,000

6. The Operation was a success, and northern France was liberated by the end of when?

September 1945

October 1944

September 1944

November 1944

August 1944

7. The German launched their last major offensive in the winter of 1944. What was the resulting battle called?

Battle of Midway

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of Brittany

Battle of Berlin

Battle of Arnhem

8. The Americans landed on which beaches at Normandy?

Gold and Juno

Juno and Sword

Sword and Gold

Omaha and Gold

Omaha and Utah

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

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Invasion of Czechoslovakia

Bombing of Poland

Annexation of Austria

Invasion of Norway

10. 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 Patton

General George Marshall

General Douglas MacArthur