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On what date did the Potsdam Declaration announce the Allied terms for Japan's surrender?
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July 26, 1945
Who signed Japan's formal surrender document as its foreign minister aboard USS Missouri?
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Mamoru Shigemitsu
On what date did Emperor Hirohito's recorded surrender broadcast air in Japan during World War II?
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August 15, 1945
In Operation Downfall, which Japanese island was targeted by the planned Allied invasion Operation Olympic?
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Kyūshū
In Hesiod’s Pandora story, which brother ignored Prometheus’s warning about Zeus’s gift?
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Epimetheus
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Who signed Japan's formal surrender document as its foreign minister aboard USS Missouri?
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Mamoru Shigemitsu
What modern idiom describes an action that creates many new problems, like opening Pandora’s box?
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Open a can of worms
In Greek mythology’s Pandora story, which god made the woman from clay?
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Hephaestus
Which Greek goddess clothed Pandora in Hesiod’s account?
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Athena