Military & Weaponry

Military & Weaponry

Military & Weaponry - 1 point

CategoryQuestionAnswerLast Update
Military serviceLabelled ‘the world’s smallest army’ and dressed in Renaissance clothing, in which country does the honour guard known as the Swiss Guard operate?
Vatican City
2024/12/19
WeaponryThe 1873 model of what firearm was marketed as ‘The Gun that Won the West’, with over 700,000 units produced in the five decades before it was discontinued in 1923?
Winchester Rifle

*The exact model is the Winchester Model 1873 lever-action rifle.
2024/12/19
WeaponryNimcha, nagamaki, golok, and dusack are all what type of weapon?
Sword
2025/03/01
Service personnelWhat was the name of the English World War II pilot knighted for services to disabled people, having achieved over twenty aerial victories and fought in the Battle of Britain despite having lost the bottom half of both his legs in a crash in the early 1930s?
Douglas Bader
2025/04/07

Military & Weaponry - 3 points

CategoryQuestionAnswerLast Update
USWho are the three men to have been given the rank 'General of the Armies' - a position higher than the five-star General of the Army or Fleet Admiral - by the US military?
1. George Washington
2. John J. Pershing
3. Ulysses S. Grant
2024/12/23

Military & Weaponry - 4 points

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USIn order to place its leaders at the same rank as its World War II allies and therefore erase problems of Americans commanding overseas officers in superior positions, December 1944 saw the US promote which four men to the position of General of the Army, a five-star position not used since 1888?
1. George C. Marshall
2. Douglas MacArthur
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. Henry H. ‘Hap’ Arnold
2024/12/27