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Super quiz

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Subject: MILITARY MATTERS

(e.g., In the U.S. military, SAC stands for ____. Answer: Strategic Air Command.)

Freshman level

1. For what does NATO stand?

2. The invasion of this country began in 2003.

3. This academy is often simply called “The Point.”

Graduate level

4. The 1945 Yalta Conference was held on this peninsula.

5. This Libyan leader seized power in a military coup in 1969.

6. President Barack Obama’s red line concerned which country?

Ph.D. level

7. Who initially headed Germany’s Flying Circus during World War I?

8. In 2016 he said, “Recently I have said that NATO was obsolete.”

9. Who were the two main adversarie­s in the Peloponnes­ian War?

Answers:

1. North Atlantic Treaty Organizati­on.

2. Iraq.

3. The United States Military Academy (West Point).

4. Crimean Peninsula.

5. Moammar Gadhafi.

6. Syria.

7. Manfred von Richthofen.

8. Donald Trump.

9. Athens and Sparta.

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