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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, which god orders Pandora’s creation as punishment for Prometheus’s theft?

Answer

Zeus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora story, what remained inside the jar after everything else escaped?

Answer

Hope

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Pandora's Box

In the Pandora myth, which deity is credited with creating humans before giving them fire?

Answer

Prometheus

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

Which Japanese military official signed the surrender for Imperial General Headquarters in 1945?

Answer

Yoshijiro Umezu

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

Which Soviet official delivered the 1945 declaration of war against Japan to Japan’s ambassador?

Answer

Vyacheslav Molotov

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

Where was the official Japanese surrender ceremony in China held on 9 September 1945?

Answer

Nanjing

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

What was Emperor Hirohito’s 15 August 1945 radio broadcast announcing Japan’s acceptance commonly called?

Answer

Gyokuon-hōsō

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

What was the planned Allied operation to invade the Kanto Plain near Tokyo in 1946 called?

Answer

Operation Coronet

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

In the United States, what date marked the initial announcement of Japan's surrender in 1945?

Answer

14 August 1945

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

Which city was the first target of an atomic bomb used in warfare during World War II?

Answer

Hiroshima

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which country's stock-market bubble burst in 1990 after extraordinary property and equity-price speculation?

Answer

Japan

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• World's Stock Market Crashes

Which market did the 1914 outbreak of World War I force to close for nearly four months?

Answer

New York Stock Exchange

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