Expedition of the Thousand
Military Daily Trivia Challenge
1. What legendary Italian soldier led the Expedition of the Thousand, the 1860 invasion of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies that paved the way for the unification of Italy?
Victor Emmanuel I
Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Camilio Benso di Cavour
Sigismondo Malatesta
2. What North African city -- then part of the fading Ottoman Empire -- did the Italian government invade on October 3, 1911 in an effort to counter France's presence in the region?
Cairo
Tunis
Algiers
Tripoli
Rabat
3. What Italian general -- at one point the Army Chief of Staff -- replaced Mussolini as the head of government and signed Italy's unconditional surrender to the Allies on September 23, 1943?
Sebastiano Visconti Prasca
Pietro Badoglio
Ivanoe Bonomi
Vittorio Ambrosio
Ugo Cavallero

