Remembrance Day Quiz 1 (Questions only)

1. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed in a railway dining carriage. What happened with that same carriage in June 1940?

2. The graves of the first and the last British soldiers killed in action in the First World War face each other, by pure coincidence, in the same cemetery. Name both soldiers, and the Belgian town the cemetery is near.

3. George Lawrence Price, shot by a sniper at about 10:58 on 11 November 1918, is usually regarded as the last Commonwealth soldier killed in the war. What nationality was he?

4. Who is generally recognised as the last American soldier killed in the First World War, at 10:59 on Armistice Day?

5. Wilfred Owen was killed on 4 November 1918. What famously happened at his parents' home in Shrewsbury on 11 November, and along which canal was he killed?

6. John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields" in May 1915, the day after the death of a close friend. What was McCrae's nationality and profession, and what was his friend's name?

7. Which American teacher, nicknamed "The Poppy Lady", started the custom of wearing a red poppy in memory of the war dead?

8. How does a remembrance poppy sold in Scotland look different from one sold in England, and who designed it?

9. The Poppy Factory in Richmond, Surrey, was founded in 1922 to give jobs to disabled ex-servicemen. Which officer founded it?

10. Who designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall, and what does the word "cenotaph" literally mean in Greek?

11. The Unknown Warrior was chosen from several unidentified bodies in a chapel near Arras in November 1920. In which town was the chapel, and which British destroyer carried the coffin across the Channel?

12. The coffin of the Unknown Warrior was made from oak trees grown in the grounds of which royal palace?

13. Which foreign military decoration was presented to the Unknown Warrior in 1921, and by whom?

14. Which royal bride started the tradition of laying a wedding bouquet on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, and in which year?

15. The two-minute silence was first suggested by an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey. Which South African politician, best known as the author of the dog story "Jock of the Bushveld", then took the idea to King George V?

16. The Last Post has been played under the Menin Gate in Ypres every evening since 1928. While Ypres was under German occupation in the Second World War, where was the ceremony held instead?

17. Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, near Passchendaele, got its name because soldiers thought some local farm buildings looked like Tyneside cottages. Which regiment gave it the name?

18. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme bears the names of over 72,000 men with no known grave. Which architect designed it, and who also designed which other famous memorial in this round?

19. The phrase "Lest we forget" is used on many war memorials, but it comes from a poem written years before the First World War. Name the poem and its author.

20. Laurence Binyon wrote "For the Fallen", which contains the "Ode of Remembrance", in September 1914. In which English county was he sitting on a clifftop when he wrote it? And as a bonus: which flower is France's symbol of remembrance, instead of the poppy?