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Friday, June 6, 2014

2014[23]Q -- Ins-Net Qs for Jun 06, 2014_Mixed Bag -- #16: "70th Anniversary of D-Day"

Insomniac-Net Questions -- Friday[23], Jun 06, 2014
Tonight's Topic: "Mixed Bag of 3 Trivia Questions -- #16: "70th Anniversary of D-Day"
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    On this day 70 years ago, the Allied forces launched an assault on mainland Europe -- now known as "D-Day"
    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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