Quiz  /  Military Technology Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which two aeronautical engineers, serving opposing sides during World War II, independently invented the jet engine?

  • Aleksandr Yakovlev and Wernher von Braun
  • Frank Whittle and Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain
  • Geoffrey de Havilland and Willy Messerschmitt
  • Leroy Randle Grumman and Ernst Heinrich Heinkel

  • 2. 
    Which early U.S. and Soviet jet fighters engaged in history’s first large-scale jet fighter combat?

  • F-86 Sabres and MiG-15s
  • F-104 Starfighters and MiG-17s
  • P-51 Mustangs and MiG-3s
  • F-4 Phantom IIs and MiG-21s

  • 3. 
    Which World War II weapon did U.S. General George S. Patton call “the greatest battle implement ever devised”?

  • Colt .45 pistol
  • bazooka
  • Garand rifle
  • Sherman tank

  • 4. 
    Who was responsible for some of the earliest, widely influential development of military rockets?

  • William Congreve
  • Robert Hutchings Goddard
  • Elon Musk
  • Hermann Oberth

  • 5. 
    What was the most successful vertical and short take-off and landing, or V/STOL, jet developed during the 1950s–1970s?

  • Harrier
  • Spitfire
  • Mosquito
  • Mirage

  • 6. 
    Which ballistic missile, fitted to submarines beginning in 1979, became the principal sea-based nuclear weapon of the United States?

  • Poseidon
  • Trident
  • Polaris
  • Harpoon

  • 7. 
    The launching of which naval vessel started a race to produce turbine-powered “all-big-gun” warships?

  • Missouri
  • Bismarck
  • Yamamoto
  • Dreadnought

  • 8. 
    What is the oldest still-floating commissioned warship in the world?

  • USS Constitution
  • USS Missouri
  • HMS Warrior
  • HMS Victory

  • 9. 
    What did Lieutenant Jan J. Wichers of the Dutch navy invent in 1933 when he advanced the idea of supplying air to submarine diesel engines through a tube?

  • the supercharger
  • fuel injection
  • the periscope
  • the snorkel

  • 10. 
    Which weapon, commonly employed by urban guerrilla fighters, is known in Russian as the Ruchnoy Protivotankovy Granatomet?

  • RPG
  • land mine
  • AK-47
  • surface-to-air missile

  • 11. 
    What was given the nickname “Stalin Organ”?

  • Katyusha rocket launcher
  • Myasishchev M-4
  • first Soviet hydrogen bomb
  • Red Army radio

  • 12. 
    What fighter plane of World War II came out of a design for a racing seaplane?

  • Spitfire
  • SBD Dauntless
  • F6F Hellcat
  • Zero

  • 13. 
    In 1937 Andrey Nikolayevich Tupolev was arrested by the Soviet secret police but was allowed to earn his freedom by designing what instruments of war?

  • tanks
  • machine guns
  • bombers
  • fighters
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