Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #16: "70th Anniversary of D-Day"
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Accordingly, we have some lesser known facts about D-Day for our 3 questions tonight.
Please give us your best answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each question.
++ "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #16: "70th Anniversary of D-Day" ++
Question #1: To this day, the D-Day operation (nicknamed "Overlord") is still the largest seaborne military operation the world has ever seen -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
Question #2: As part of several deception strategies to confuse the Germans where and when the D-Day operation was to happen, early on D-Day, dummies dressed in paratrooper uniforms were dropped in Normandy away from the actual landing sites. What were these dummies called?
A. Waldos, or
B. Adolphs, or
C. Ruperts
Question #3: The original day for the proposed D-Day invasion was actually planned for June 5th, not June 6th -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.
[SOURCE: LW's Super-Secret Treasure Trove of Trivia]
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++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- from Winston Churchill confided his fears to his wife the evening before the landings telling her:
“Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning 20,000 men may have been killed?”
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