| Question |
Answer |
Wrong Answers |
| Who was the Harvard-educated Imperial Japanese Navy officer that was the main individual behind the decision to attack Pearl Harbor? |
Isoroku Yamamoto | | 82% |
| Ryunosuke Kusaka | | 3.4% |
| Minoru Genda | | 2.8% |
| Kameto Kuroshima | | 9.6% |
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| From Final Jeopardy: 'Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of US involvement in World War II.' What is the Pearl Harbor related memorial? |
USS Arizona | | 77.1% |
| USS Missouri | | 13.1% |
| Mauna Loa | | 2.9% |
| Navy Pier | | 2.7% |
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| Pearl Harbor is located on which island? |
Oʻahu | | 73.5% |
| Maui | | 6.7% |
| Hawaiʻi | | 16.9% |
| Kauaʻi | | 2.9% |
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| Which day of the week was December 7, 1941? |
Sunday | | 73% |
| Saturday | | 6.2% |
| Thursday | | 9.2% |
| Monday | | 8.5% |
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| A famous quote about the attack on Pearl Harbor is, 'I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.' The first known use of this quote was in reality from the script of which movie? |
Tora! Tora! Tora! | | 58.3% |
| 1941 | | 6.3% |
| Pearl Harbor | | 15.3% |
| From Here to Eternity | | 13.3% |
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| As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Commander-in-chief of the US Pacific Fleet, Husband Kimmel, was relieved of his command. Who replaced him? |
Chester W. Nimitz | | 57.3% |
| Douglas MacArthur | | 29% |
| Walter Short | | 3.1% |
| Scott H. Swift | | 3.4% |
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| Which of these four battleships that were hit by torpedoes did not return to service during WWII? |
USS Oklahoma | | 47.7% |
| USS West Virginia | | 16.1% |
| USS California | | 13.1% |
| USS Nevada | | 17.4% |
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| Which US Territory was not attacked in the hours following the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor? |
American Samoa | | 42% |
| Philippines | | 19.3% |
| Wake Island | | 16.3% |
| Guam | | 16.4% |
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| Which US Army Air Force Base was not attacked December 7, 1941? |
March Field | | 37.5% |
| Bellows Field | | 21.1% |
| Wheeler Field | | 18% |
| Hickam Field | | 22.2% |
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| In which WWII movie was a Nazi infiltrator identified when he said he was eating dinner in Cleveland during the attack on Pearl Harbor? The attack happened at dinner time in Berlin, lunch time in Cleveland. |
Stalag 17 | | 32.3% |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | | 31.2% |
| The Longest Day | | 20.5% |
| Patton | | 10.9% |
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| How many Japanese aircraft carriers were involved in the attack on Pearl Harbor? |
6 | | 30.7% |
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| Which was not one of the three Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, all at sea, during the attack on Pearl Harbor? |
USS Yorktown | | 23% |
| USS Enterprise | | 32.4% |
| USS Lexington | | 14.9% |
| USS Saratoga | | 23.2% |
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