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List of military operations in the Nordic countries during World War II - Quiz
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  • 1. What was the purpose of Operation Alphabet in 1940?
A) Destruction of a heavy water plant
B) Invasion of the Lofoten Islands
C) Bombing of the Gestapo headquarters
D) Evacuation of British troops from Norway
  • 2. What was the goal of Operation Apostle in 1945?
A) Enforce German surrender in Norway
B) Mine the Norwegian coast
C) Occupy the Faroe Islands
D) Evacuate British troops
  • 3. Operation Archery took place in 1941 at which location?
A) Vågsøy, Norway
B) Bornholm, Denmark
C) Copenhagen, Denmark
D) Reykjavik, Iceland
  • 4. Which operation involved the RAF bombing the Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen?
A) Carthage
B) Archery
C) Musketoon
D) Claymore
  • 5. What was the primary objective of Operation Fork in 1940?
A) Liberation of Denmark
B) Invasion of Iceland
C) Control of the Baltic Sea
D) Invasion of Norway
  • 6. Operation Catherine was a British plan intended for what region?
A) Vemork
B) Sognefjord
C) Spitzbergen
D) Baltic Sea
  • 7. Which operation was the second raid on the heavy water plant at Vemork?
A) Gunnerside
B) Sunshine
C) Freshman
D) Grouse
  • 8. Operation Grouse served what purpose in 1942?
A) Destruction of power stations
B) Mining the coast
C) Norwegian guide party for Freshman
D) Protecting power installations
  • 9. What was the alternative name for Operation Apostle?
A) Wilfred
B) Kitbag
C) Jupiter
D) Doomsday
  • 10. Operation Valentine in 1940 involved the British occupation of which place?
A) Faroe Islands
B) Lofoten Islands
C) Iceland
D) Zealand
  • 11. Operation Wilfred was a plan to do what to the Norwegian coast?
A) Evacuate troops from it
B) Mine it
C) Bomb shipping along it
D) Invade it
  • 12. What was the objective of the Swedish plan Rädda Bornholm?
A) Evacuation of British troops
B) Protection of power installations
C) Liberation of Norway
D) Planned landings on Bornholm
  • 13. Operation Sunshine was designed to protect what?
A) Heavy water plants
B) Essential power installations
C) Gestapo headquarters
D) German shipping lanes
  • 14. Operation Musketoon involved the destruction of what?
A) Gestapo headquarters
B) A heavy water plant
C) A power station in Norway
D) German U-boat pens
  • 15. Operation Leader targeted German shipping in which area?
A) Copenhagen
B) Bodø
C) Florø
D) Sognefjord
  • 16. Operation Anklet was a raid on which location?
A) Spitzbergen
B) Stord
C) Lofoten Islands
D) Vemork
  • 17. What was Operation Kitbag in 1941?
A) Mining operation
B) Invasion of Iceland
C) Successful raid on a power station
D) Aborted commando raid
  • 18. Operation Jupiter was a suggested invasion of which country?
A) Denmark
B) Sweden
C) Norway
D) Iceland
  • 19. The OSS supported which operation in Sweden in 1944?
A) Rädda Danmark
B) Operation Cartoon
C) The Sepals/Perianth Operation
D) Operation Brandy
  • 20. What was the Finnish Operation Hokki intended to achieve?
A) Evacuation of German troops
B) Destroy railroad tracks to deny Soviet supplies
C) Joint attack on Kandalaksha
D) Capture of the Åland islands
  • 21. Operation Holzauge in 1942 took place in which location?
A) Finland
B) Norway
C) Denmark
D) Greenland
  • 22. Lachsfang was a proposed combined attack against which two locations?
A) Narvik and Trondheim
B) Petsamo and Murmansk
C) Oslo and Bergen
D) Kandalaksha and Belomorsk
  • 23. Operation Nordlicht 2 involved a German withdrawal from where?
A) Greenland
B) Kola Peninsula
C) Åland islands
D) Suursaari
  • 24. Operation Blaufuchs 1 involved the staging of German forces from Germany to where?
A) Northern Finland
B) Trondheim
C) Petsamo
D) Greenland
  • 25. Operation Platinfuchs was a joint attack towards which city?
A) Murmansk
B) Kandalaksha
C) Narvik
D) Oslo
  • 26. Operation Renntier involved the German occupation of which location?
A) Suursaari
B) Petsamo
C) Svalbard
D) Åland islands
  • 27. Operation Safari in 1943 was conducted to do what?
A) Capture and disarm Danish forces
B) Secure railroad lines
C) Evacuate Norway
D) Invade Iceland
  • 28. Operation Sizilien was a raid upon which location?
A) The Åland islands
B) Northern Finland
C) Allied-occupied Spitzbergen
D) The Kola Peninsula
  • 29. What was the outcome of Tanne Ost?
A) Successful capture of Åland
B) Failed attempt to capture Suursaari
C) Successful occupation of Iceland
D) Successful evacuation of Narvik
  • 30. Operation Zitronella is an alternate name for which operation?
A) Nordlicht 2
B) Hokki
C) Büffel
D) Sizilien
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