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Quiz about All About the Band of Brothers

All About the "Band of Brothers" Quiz

This is only for the most intense "Band of Brothers" fans test your knowledge on the greatest movie of all time!

A multiple-choice quiz by ww2wiz. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
ww2wiz

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
291,127

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1751

Awards
Top 5% quiz!

Last 3 plays: Guest 73 (7/10), Guest 49 (7/10), Guest 49 (7/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. In what year did Easy Company, second Battalion of the 506th PIR, officially form? Hint

September of 1942

December 7th, 1941

August of 1942

June of 1944

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who was the first X.O. of Easy Company? Hint

Lt. Clarence Hester

Lt. Richard Winters

Lt. Herbert Sobel

Lt. Lewis Nixon

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Question 3 of 10

3. What is the name of the mountain the men had to run up and down constantly? Hint

Toccoa Mountain

Indian Hill

Mt. Easy

Currahee

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Question 4 of 10

4. In the first episode of the series, who does Sobel yell at for drinking water during a march? Hint

Pvt. Walter "Smokey" Gordon

Pvt. Ed Tipper

Pvt. Burt "Pat" Christenson

Pvt. David Kenyon Webster

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Question 5 of 10

5. Where did Easy reside prior to the D-Day jump? Hint

London, England

Normandy, France

Aldbourne, England

Toccoa, Georgia

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Question 6 of 10

6. What happened to Easy's Commanding Officer at D-Day, Lt. Thomas Meehan? Hint

His plane crashed during the jump

The Nazis captured him

He Quit

No one knows

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who told the epic story of "The Night of the Bayonet", in which Private Smith bayoneted Sergeant Talbert after the battle of Carentan? Hint

Colonel Sink

Lt. Winters

Private Smokey Gordon

Private Smith

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Question 8 of 10

8. While in the Ardennes after the Battle of the Bulge, what two lifelong friends lost their lives together? Hint

Sergeants Joe Toye and Bill Guarnere

Sergeants George Luz and C. Carwood Lipton

Captain Dick Winters and Lt. Lewis Nixon

Sergeant Skip Muck and Private Alex Penkala

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who was the soldier who translated for Major Winters when they liberated the Landsberg Concentration Camp in Germany? Hint

Private David Webster

Lt. Lewis Nixon

Lt. C. Carwood Lipton

Corporal Joe Liebgott

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Question 10 of 10

10. Here's the hard one: Which member of Easy Company went on to prosecute Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert Kennedy? Hint

Major Dick Winters

Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton

Lt. Lewis Nixon

Private David Webster

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In what year did Easy Company, second Battalion of the 506th PIR, officially form?

Answer: August of 1942

When Easy was officially formed at Camp Toccoa in Georgia, they were not yet attached to the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles.

2. Who was the first X.O. of Easy Company?

Answer: Lt. Clarence Hester

Herbert Sobel was the original C.O., or commanding officer. As X.O., Hester was Sobel's right-hand man.

3. What is the name of the mountain the men had to run up and down constantly?

Answer: Currahee

Currahee means "we stand alone" in Indian. Alas the 506th's motto.

4. In the first episode of the series, who does Sobel yell at for drinking water during a march?

Answer: Pvt. Burt "Pat" Christenson

Christenson ended up being one of the only Toccoa men to make it all the way through the war.

5. Where did Easy reside prior to the D-Day jump?

Answer: Aldbourne, England

Many of the men returned to Aldbourne after the war. Dick Winters stayed in contact with his host family until their deaths in the late 1960s.

6. What happened to Easy's Commanding Officer at D-Day, Lt. Thomas Meehan?

Answer: His plane crashed during the jump

It was not know until a while afterwards about what really happened to the Headquarter Company's stick.

7. Who told the epic story of "The Night of the Bayonet", in which Private Smith bayoneted Sergeant Talbert after the battle of Carentan?

Answer: Private Smokey Gordon

When Smokey returned from the hospital, he and Rogers wrote the poem (which was lost). At the end of the reciting of it, Gordon gave one of his three Purple Hearts earned to Talbert, who was not eligible for his own Purple Heart because he was not wounded by the enemy.

8. While in the Ardennes after the Battle of the Bulge, what two lifelong friends lost their lives together?

Answer: Sergeant Skip Muck and Private Alex Penkala

Muck and Penkala, who grew up together in Tonawanda, New York, received a direct hit by a German shell on January 9th, 1945.

9. Who was the soldier who translated for Major Winters when they liberated the Landsberg Concentration Camp in Germany?

Answer: Corporal Joe Liebgott

Liebgott had trouble telling his fellow Jews that they were not allowed to eat anything because it could kill them. Private David Webster also knew German, but it was Liebgott who Major Winters thought of when he was in need of a translator.

10. Here's the hard one: Which member of Easy Company went on to prosecute Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Robert Kennedy?

Answer: Lt. Lynn "Buck" Compton

Compton, who played baseball and football for UCLA before joining the army, went on to be part of the LAPD and eventually a prosecutor for Los Angeles County.

Source: Author ww2wiz

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