40 World War 2 Trivia Questions for Kids

1. Which year is usually given as the start of World War 2 in Europe?

2. In what year did World War 2 end?

3. What do the letters VE in VE Day stand for?

4. Which British World War 2 campaign encouraged people to grow vegetables in their gardens?

5. Which international organisation began in 1945 to help countries work together for peace?

6. In which US city was the United Nations Charter signed in 1945?

7. Which of these countries belonged to the Axis group in World War 2?

8. Which pair of countries were both Allies in World War 2?

9. What was the main purpose of food rationing during World War 2?

10. In the United States, what did shoppers need as well as money to buy rationed food?

11. Which sweet ingredient was the first food rationed in the United States during World War 2?

12. During World War 2, in which year did food rationing begin in Britain?

13. What did families grow in victory gardens?

14. Why did families put garden produce into sealed jars during wartime canning drives?

15. What did wartime scrap-metal drives ask people to collect?

16. Why did wartime posters encourage people to share car rides?

17. Where were many children from British cities evacuated during World War 2?

18. Why did British evacuee children wear labels on their coats?

19. What work did Britain's Women's Land Army mainly do during World War 2?

20. What resource did the women nicknamed Lumberjills help supply?

21. What did Britain's Make Do and Mend campaign encourage families to do?

22. In what year did Britain introduce clothes rationing during World War 2?

23. What did wartime factory workers called riveters use rivets to do?

24. What service did wartime childcare centres offer to help working parents?

25. Which English country estate became a major centre for wartime codebreaking?

26. What was Enigma, whose messages were studied by wartime codebreakers?

27. Which mathematician led important work on naval Enigma messages at Bletchley Park?

28. The Navajo Code Talkers built their wartime code using which language?

29. How did the Navajo Code Talkers learn their special code vocabulary for use without a written list?

30. What did the wartime V-mail system use to make letters tiny for transport?

31. Which birds carried small written messages during World War 2?

32. The Dickin Medal, introduced in 1943, honoured the service of whom?

33. What was the name of the early electronic codebreaking computer used at Bletchley Park?

34. Which engineer led the design and construction of Colossus?

35. What carried information into Colossus as a moving strip?

36. Which electronic parts did Colossus use thousands of?

37. What kind of waves did wartime radar use to locate distant objects?

38. Frank Whittle helped develop which type of aircraft engine used in the 1940s?

39. Penicillin, mass-produced during World War 2, originally came from what?

40. Wartime chemists expanded production of synthetic rubber to help make which vehicle parts?