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Remembrance quiz for care home residents

Sixteen questions in two rounds, Remembrance and the Home Front, written for adults. Every question has easier choices in brackets, so everyone can join in. It’s free to print and use, with no sign-up.

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Running it

• Play one round in two teams and save the other for another day.
• Read each question twice. If someone’s stuck, offer the choices in brackets.
• If you meet on Wednesday 11 November, start at 10.55am and join the national two-minute silence at 11am.
• Remembrance can stir up grief. Let anyone sit out, and keep one member of staff free for one-to-one time. Take care with poppy pins.

Round 1 · Remembrance

1. When did the guns fall silent on 11 November 1918? (11am or 6pm?)
2. Which king asked for a two-minute silence in 1919? (George V or Edward VII?)
3. Who designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall? (Lutyens or Wren?)
4. What does the word “cenotaph” mean? (an empty tomb or a stone cross?)
5. Where was the Unknown Warrior buried in 1920? (Westminster Abbey or St Paul's?)
6. Which Canadian doctor wrote “In Flanders Fields”? (McCrae or Wilfred Owen?)
7. In what year did the British Legion hold its first Poppy Day? (1921 or 1951?)
8. Who wrote the line “We will remember them”? (Laurence Binyon or Rupert Brooke?)

Round 2 · The Home Front

1. When did food rationing begin in Britain? (January 1940 or 1945?)
2. What was the 1939 evacuation code-named? (Pied Piper or Overlord?)
3. What stopped light escaping in the blackout? (blackout curtains or nets?)
4. Which shelter was dug into the back garden? (Anderson or Morrison?)
5. What was the Home Guard first called in 1940? (the LDV or the ARP?)
6. Women's Land Army members were known as what? (Land Girls or Factory Girls?)
7. On what date was VE Day? (8 May 1945 or 6 June 1944?)
8. In what year did food rationing finally end? (1954 or 1947?)

Answers and sources

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