These are the ten questions from War Dossier daily challenge #7, of 29 September 2026, with the correct answer and an explanation for each. Today's challenge is a different one and it is free to play.
First known as Oscar aboard the German battleship Bismarck, this cat was rescued after the ship sank in May 1941 and went on to serve aboard the British destroyer HMS Cossack, which also sank months later. Picked up alive again, he ended up aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, sunk in November 1941, from which he was rescued a third time before spending the rest of the war on land.
Challenge answers
1 / 10
Which cat does this portrait depict, said —according to naval legend— to have survived the sinking of three different ships in 1941?
Unsinkable Sam
Blackie, Churchill's cat
Simon, the cat of the Yangtze
Trim, the exploring cat
The portrait shows the cat known as Unsinkable Sam; according to naval legend, he survived the sinking of three ships in 1941.
2 / 10
The Polish TKS tankette was notable for its very small size and weight compared with conventional tanks of its era. What crew did it normally carry?
Two men: driver and gunner/commander
Five men, including a specialized gunner
A single crewman who performed all functions
Four men, the same as a medium tank
The TKS carried a minimal crew of only two men, driver and gunner, reflecting its small size as a reconnaissance tankette.
3 / 10
In what year did the Jagdpanzer IV enter service?
1944
1942
1943
1945
The Jagdpanzer IV began reaching units in 1944.
4 / 10
What November 1940 naval action, devised by Admiral Cunningham, severely damaged the Italian fleet at its own base?
The Taranto air raid
The Battle of Cape Matapan
The attack on Mers-el-Kébir
The Battle of Calabria
Cunningham ordered the torpedo-bomber strike against the Italian fleet at anchor in Taranto.
5 / 10
In which region of the South Pacific did Nishizawa fight most?
Around Rabaul and New Guinea
In the Aleutian Islands
Over the Bay of Bengal
Around Pearl Harbor
His fiercest fighting took place over Rabaul and the vicinity of New Guinea.
6 / 10
With how many Marine infantry regiments did the 1st Marine Division land in the first wave at Peleliu?
Three (1st, 5th and 7th)
Two (1st and 5th)
Four
Just one, reinforced
The 1st, 5th and 7th Marine regiments landed abreast on the first day, each in a different beach sector.
7 / 10
Whom did Hitler replace in that command post on 19 December 1941?
Walther von Brauchitsch
Fedor von Bock
Wilhelm Keitel
Franz Halder
Hitler took the post left vacant by Walther von Brauchitsch, who was dismissed that same day.
8 / 10
Unlike the systematic, prolonged Ustasha persecution in Croatian territory, the German reprisal at Kragujevac was a single, concentrated episode of mass repression; what triggered it immediately?
Fighting against partisans and Chetniks caused German casualties
An assassination attempt against Ante Pavelic
The proclamation of the Uzice Republic
Tito's escape from his headquarters
The reprisal was triggered by nearby fighting against partisans and Chetniks in which German soldiers died, with the reprisal quota against civilians applied at once.
9 / 10
Why was the foundation of dragon's teeth sunk one or two metres into the ground?
To prevent tunnelling to place explosive charges
To store ammunition under each block
To serve as an air-raid shelter
To make it easier to drain rainwater
The concrete foundation was sunk one to two metres into the ground precisely to prevent the enemy from tunnelling underneath and placing explosive charges to blow up the obstacle.
10 / 10
Unlike the photographer who landed with the troops in Normandy in 1944, what did Margaret Bourke-White become for the first time in 1943?
The first woman in a US Army Air Forces combat mission
Co-founder of a photographers' agency
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for correspondence
Illustrator of a cartoon in Stars and Stripes
In 1943 she was the first woman to fly on a US Army Air Forces combat mission.
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