Knights Without Parachutes — wwi

For homeschoolers, and others considering a unit on World War 1: 9. It's always fun comparing what happened 100 years ago today, and playing, "had they but known...." 8. More fun dressing up in a pickle helmet (Pickelhaube) than any helmet since. 7. Yes! The Red Baron was actually a baron! (Now find out what is a baron compared to a count, a duke, an earl, a knight, and Queen Victoria.) 6. How about studying Queen Victoria's family tree, and how it affected the war? (A gene for hemophilia results in a major power falling apart, which results in the...

A quiz about WWI, from AMAC (one would hope that however bad current education is, "mature citizens" at least would know something about history.) If you get 10 of 10 you can consider yourself a serious WWI buff! If not, you can consider that knowing the specific year something happened is not always important, but then you'd better make up for it by getting the question about root causes of the war right.