Terms: |CBS| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS correspondent reporting from Europe during the Second World War, regularly ended his broadcasts with which now-iconic phrase?
Good night, and good luck
Terms: |France| |Germany| |Normandy| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Perhaps the most famous tank commander of the Second World War was a German officer highly decorated for destroying more than 100 tanks on the Eastern Front. He became especially famous in Normandy, where, according to German accounts, he destroyed 14 British tanks and 15 transport vehicles in a single action with his Tiger. What was his name?
Terms: |Russia| |Soviet Union| |Stalingrad| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
What was the codename of the late-1942 Soviet operation that encircled the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, a name it shared with a planet of the Solar System?
Operation Uranus
Terms: |Spitfire| |World War II|
Published: 31. 3. 2026.
Which British aircraft manufacturer produced the Spitfire, the celebrated single-seat fighter that became one of the defining combat aircraft of the Second World War?
Supermarine
Terms: |Ferdinand Marcos| |Philippines| |Politics|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
Which Filipino political leader succeeded Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and became the eleventh president of the Philippines?
Corazon Aquino
Terms: |Great Northern War|
Published: 27. 3. 2026.
The Great Northern War was fought between 1700 and 1721. Between which two European superpowers of the time?
Sweden and Russia
Terms: |Ancient Near East|
Published: 26. 3. 2026.
Which logo-syllabic script was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East? It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions that form its signs.
Cuneiform