Friday night Quiz - 13.11.2020

Here are the answers to last week's animal picture quiz.

How did you do? Was it easier? Do let us know how you got on.

This week picking up on Remembrance and Armistice here is a war time quiz.

1. What does the abbreviation VE stand for?

2. What time of the day, on May 8, 1945, was the news announced?

3. When did the Prime Minister first hear of the surrender?

4. When was VE Day originally planned to be?

5. When had the Second World War started?

6. Adolf Hitler had a nephew called William. Who did he fight for in the Second World War?

7. How many British prisoners of war were released after VE Day?

8. Which European countries stayed ‘neutral’ in the Second World War?

9. Where did the conflict continue after VE Day?

10. How old was our Queen Elizabeth II on VE Day?

11. How did the future queen help out during the Second World War?

12. Who was on the throne in 1945?

13. Who was Prime Minister at the time?

14. What were people allowed to purchase without rationing coupons, in celebration of VE Day?

15. In the US, a new name was give to hamburgers to make them sound less ‘German’. What were they called?

16. How much toilet paper per day were British soldiers allowed, under rationing?

17. How old was the youngest person in the US military?

18. What popular breakfast and dessert spread was invented because of rationing during WWII?

19. US President Harry Truman celebrated his birthday on VE Day in 1945 - what age did he turn?

20. Where was the German surrender signed?

21. What does the Netherlands send to Canada every year to say thank you for sheltering their Princess in the war?

22. When did food rationing end, following the end of the war?

Good luck!