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The Attack on Pearl Harbor: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge about the historical event of the Attack on Pearl Harbor with this engaging quiz. Explore questions about casualties, combatants, and significant details surrounding the attack.

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1 How many casualties were there in the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

2 Which of the following was a combatant in the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

3 Another four scout planes patrolled the area between the Kido Butai and ________, in order to prevent the task force from being caught by a surprise counterattack.

4 ________

5 Where did the Attack on Pearl Harbor take place?

6 ________, Tragic Deception: FDR and America's Involvement in World War II (Devin-Adair Pub, 1983) ISBN 0-8159-6917-1

7 Which of the following titles did Attack on Pearl Harbor have?

8 Which of the following was a combatant in the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

9 What format does Attack on Pearl Harbor follow?

10 When was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Automobile Manufacturers Association began a cooperative effort of 654 U.S. auto industry companies that accounted for a quarter of U.S. war output.
  • eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel.
  • as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film.
  • in 2002, the submersible Pisces V (pictured) and her sister vessel discovered a Japanese midget submarine in Pearl Harbor, the first vessel to be sunk during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • secret bombing priorities drawn up by the Air War Plans Division were compromised by Senator Burton K. Wheeler three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • the Abukuma, a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid, was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room.
  • the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943.
  • the crematory at the Oahu Cemetery in Hawaii was used to burn $200 million in U.S. bank notes after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
  • after being saved from the scrapyard by a U.S. delegation, two Japanese warships of the Amagi and Tosa classes, Akagi and Kaga, were converted to aircraft carriers and took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress, which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack.
  • George Fielding Eliot's military analysis was part of the ten-hour CBS TV news coverage of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, which was the first extended television coverage of a major breaking news event.
  • Battleship Row bore the brunt of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Spec Keene's Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Togo Tanaka publicly called Japan's government "stupid" the day after Pearl Harbor for starting an unwinnable war but was one of 10,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to the Manzanar camp.
  • Major Alan Shapley, survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station.
  • American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Japanese admiral Mitsumi Shimizu authorized the midget submarine operation during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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