World War One Trivia

Beef up your knowledge of World War I with this 25 Interesting Facts video from List25. We’ve also collected a bunch of random WWI Jeopardy! clues — they are in addition to the video, and they are not necessarily in war categories.

THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO… ($800) served on active duty in the Army during World War I & World War II

MEMORIAL DAY ($800) The World War I poem “In Flanders Field” inspired the use of this flower as a symbol for remembering fallen soldiers

VETERANS ($800) In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, thousands of World War I vets known as this “Army” marched on Washington to demand payment of urgently needed benefits

NOTABLE WOMEN ($1000) As Queen of the Netherlands, she saw her country through 2 World Wars

SHE-ROES ($1000) Profession of Edith Cavell, executed during World War I for helping allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium

ALL THE GLITTERING PRIZES ($1200) This World War I U.S. Army general won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1932

BALLPLAYERS IN UNIFORM ($1200) During World War I, this ferocious Tiger made a peach of a U.S. Army captain

FRENCH COMPOSERS ($1600) A decade before composing “Bolero”, he served as a driver in World War I

COMPOUND WORDS $2000: It meant a dumpling before it meant an American infantryman, especially in World War I

THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY ($2000) In World War I Italy attacked this northeast neighbor in 12 –yes, 12– Battles of the Isonzo River & got whupped repeatedly

WORLD WAR I ($2000) The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont

WORLD WAR I ($2000) In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front

These were FINAL JEOPARDY clues:

“FIRST” PHRASES: The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914

HISTORIC ROYALTY: These two men seen here, allies during World War I, were sometimes mistaken for each other