First World War.

[tonyav]

This year marks the centenary of WW1, test your knowledge on it with this quiz.
http://www.expressandstar.com/editors-picks/2014/02/12/the-first-world-war-how-much-do-you-know/

[sandyRoe]

You scored 75%!
Q.1 Who was the Austrian nobleman whose assassination sparked the outbreak of the conflict?
✓Archduke Franz Ferdinand
János Hadik
Not bad, I'd say.

[tonyav]

Well done, sandy. I scored 63 %.

[paddywak]

75% as well

[tonyav]

Well done to you also, paddywak.

[nungate]

Amazed! I scored 98% some of my First World War history must have stuck!

[ELVIS68]

50%, not bad I suppose

[Spoonboy]

93% 37/40

[tonyav]

Some very good scores.

[Prudie]

Crikey I was impressed with 55% :-(

[tiggerblue10]

78% I studied both WWs at college.

[Spoonboy]

Can't beat the History channels, nor quiz shows for the more obscure bits of info.

[Hopkirk]

70% , though many were educated guesses.

[humbersloop]

I still don't understand why it started.....

[tonyav]

See question one in the quiz, hippy chick.

[jno]

a rather poor 63%, though a couple of the answers seem not have been the ones I thought I'd clicked. If the emperor insisted that London be exempt from Zeppelin raids, why wasn't it? Did they just ignore him?

[Baldric]

88% OK with that.

[stewey]

73%

[humbersloop]

I know tony, but before that?

I always get muddled up abut the failure of the Ottoman empire, rising German imperial ambitions and the fact the Franz Ferdinand was so unpopular anybody would have shot him given half a chance

[tonyav]

I think it had been brewing for some years before the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, I think it was the spark that lit the fire, Sloopy.

[DaisyNonna]

92% but did guess a couple