In light of the D-Day commemoration, I decided to interview a few acquaintances and ask their knowledge of D-Day. The questions were asked verbally, and the subjects had to answer from memory. The quiz consisted of six questions:
1) What happened on D-Day?
2) During what war did D-Day occur?
3) When was D-Day? (day, month & year)
4) Name five nations that participated in the battle.
5) In what country did the battle take place?
6) Do you know what the term '
fubar' means?* (this question was added after I started the survey, so not all respondents have answers for this question)
*I didn't accept a simple 'yes' as an answer to get this one correct, the subject had to
spell out the term 'fubar' for me.
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These are some of the responses I received, I found some of them quite interesting, and some of them quite humorous:
Respondent #1 (male, mid 20's)
1) The start of US involvement in WWII
2) WWII
3) June 6, 1942
4) US, Germany, UK, France, (blank)
5) France
6) Yes
Respondent #2 (female, mid 30's)
1) Allies landed at Normandy
2) WWI
3) 1911
4) France, Germany, Russia, US, (blank)
5) France
6) Yes
Respondent #3 (male, late 30's)
1) Allied invasion of Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 6, 1943
4) Germany, France, US, UK, Canada
5) France
6) N/A
Respondent #4 (male, mid 30's)
1) Allies invaded Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 7, 1945
4) UK, Canada, US, Australia, Germany
5) France
6) Yes
Respondent #5 (male, late 30's)
1) Allied invasion of Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 6, 1944
4) UK, Canada, US, Poland, France, Germany
5) France
6) Yes
(This respondent offered the names of all five invasion beaches as well; Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno & Sword)
Respondent #6 (female, early 20's)
1) The end of WWII
2) WWII
3) June 8, 1945
4) Germany, Japan, US, France, (blank)
5) Austria
6) No
Respondent #7 (female, mid 20's)
1) The start of WWII
2) WWII
3) 1954
4) A bunch of white people
5) unknown
6) No
Respondent #8 (female, early 30's)
1) unknown
2) WWII
3) 19__
4) unknown
5) unknown
6) No
Respondent #9 (male, 50+)
1) The invasion of Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 6, 1943
4) US, Canada, Britain, Germany, Poland, France, Denmark
5) France
6) N/A
(This respondent offered the names of the invasion beaches: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah & Ohio)
Respondent #10 (male, mid 20's)
1) The beggining of WWII
2) WWII
3) June, 1941
4) US, UK, Canada, Poland, Russia, Germany
5) Northern Germany
6) No
Respondent #11 (male, early 30's)
1) Allied troops invading Normandy
2) WWII
3) 1950's
4) France, Germany, US, (blank), (blank)
5) France
6) Yes
Respondent #12 (male, early 40's)
1) Allied invasion of Europe/Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 6, 1944
4) Germany, Canada, US, UK, France
5) France
6) No
Respondent #13 (female, mid 20's)
1) Allied invasion of Normandy
2) WWII
3) June 5, 1944
4) Poland, Germany, UK, France, US, UK, Italy
5) France
6) Yes
more are on the way...
[ 10. June 2004, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Otto ]
