I got 50 per cent! 
Some interesting questions there. I did not realize that "besser tot als rot" dated back to the Nazis. It is useful to know that.
The English, though. They just always have to get in the dig at the Irish, eh? That question was such a cheap giveaway.
And "the Lost Division": I'd never heard that expression before, and it is news to me that so many went AWOL, although, when you think about France, young Americans being set loose in France for the first time, it makes sense. 
I avoided the right answer because I thought it sounded so like a parody of the description of the previous generation of Americans who had fallen in love with France right after the First WW -- the "lost generation." Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Callaghan, and the boys. And some grils, too. Actually, it was a gril who named them, Gertrude Stein -- "You are all a lost generation."
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