WWII HISTORY
This Allied operation launched on 6 June 1944 and is commonly known as D-Day.
What is Operation Overlord?
This Italian city lends its name to a meat sauce often served with pasta.
What is Bologna?
A fisherman hopes to catch one, while a boxer hopes to land one.
What is a Hook?
This force keeps planets in orbit around stars.
What is gravity?
After an unfortunate encounter with gravity, this wall-sitting character proved impossible to reassemble despite royal intervention.
Who is Humpty Dumpty?
This British Prime Minister promised "blood, toil, tears and sweat."
Who is Winston Churchill?
This Japanese dish literally means "grilled thing" and commonly features raw fish over rice.
What is sushi?
Used to lock up a criminal, this is also a place where mobile phones lose reception.
What is a cell?
Water consists of hydrogen and this other element.
What is oxygen?
Curds and whey were abandoned when this visitor approached a young woman seated on a tuffet.
What is a spider?
The surprise attack on this American naval base brought the United States into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This French pastry shares its name with a crescent moon shape.
What is a croissant?
Used to start a fire, this also signals the beginning of a tennis game.
What is a match?
This planet rotates so slowly that its day is longer than its year.
What is Venus?
After repeatedly ignoring warnings about weather conditions, this arachnid persisted in climbing a waterspout.
Who is Incy Wincy Spider?
This code-breaking centre, led in part by Alan Turing, helped crack the German Enigma code.
What is Bletchley Park?
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Named after a Russian aristocrat, this beef dish is served in a creamy mushroom sauce.
What is Beef Stroganoff?
A musical instrument and a type of fish share this four-letter word.
What is bass?
This scientist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
Miss Muffet's lunch was interrupted by this eight-legged visitor.
What is a spider?
This battle, fought largely in the ruins of a Soviet city, marked a major turning point on the Eastern Front.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This Spanish rice dish originated in Valencia.
What is paella?
This word can mean both a place to store valuables and the side of a river.
What is bank?
Travelling at approximately 18 million kilometres per minute, this is the speed in a vacuum
What is the speed of light?
A civil engineering project in London repeatedly suffered structural issues according to generations of children.
What is London Bridge?