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Question of the Day: Pearl Harbor Quiz

Seventy years ago today, the Japanese launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Test your knowledge of Pearl Harbor with this quiz. Display your answers in the comment box below and Patch will get back to you later with the correct answers. And you better not look up the answers online — that’s cheating!

1. After the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that Dec. 7, 1941, was "a date which will live in..."? 

2. The Pearl Harbor attack took place on what day of the week?  

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3. About how long did the attack take? 

4. Pearl Harbor is on which Hawaiian island?  

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5. The Japanese emperor during World War II was...?    

6. This word was repeated three times by attacking Japanese pilots at 7:53 a.m. to announce that they had succeeded in the surprise attack...? 

7. The number of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor...?

8. The number of Japanese fighters and bombers involved in the attack...? 

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