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1. Which leader inspired Arab revolts against the Turks during World War 1?
 
Gordon of Khartoum
Lawrence of Arabia
Queen of Sheba
Shah of Persia
 

 
2. Which World War 1 combatants fought in Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1914-16?
 
Austria and France
Britain and Bulgaria
Germany and Italy
Russia and Turkey
 

 
3. Whose army was defeated at the Battle Of Tannenberg in 1916?
 
Britain
France
Russia
Turkey

Tannenberg was then in East Prussia, now in Poland
 

 
4. Which country came into being on 28th October 1918?
 
Czechoslovakia
Iceland
Portugal
Switzerland

The Czechs and Slovaks had previously been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire
 

 
5. Britain declared war on Germany because it invaded which country?
 
Poland
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Austria

Britain had an agreement with Belgium to come to its aid if its neutrality was not respected
 

 
6. Who was commander in chief of the French armies on the Western Front 1914-16?
 
Foch
Joffre
Nivelle
Pétain

Nivelle succeeded Joffre in December 1916
 

 
7. On which date in 1918 was the World War 1 armistice signed?
 
1st April
31st August
11th November
26th December
 

 
8. Where was the main base of Britain's Grand Fleet during World War 1?
 
Liverpool
Plymouth
Rosyth
Scapa Flow

This was the official main base, from where Jellicoe's squadrons sailed to Jutland
 

 
9. Whose plan guided German strategy at the start of World War 1?
 
Ludendorff
Moltke
Schlieffen
Waldersee

Moltke was in office at the start of the war, but he proceeded with Schlieffen's plan dating from 1905
 

 
10. Who led American land forces upon their entry into World War 1?
 
Cruise
Exocet
Pershing
Scud
 

 
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