Midway/Coral Sea
Guadalcanal/New Guinea
Civilian Experiences
A-Bomb
Common Knowledge
100

The operation to intercept and decode Japanese naval codes

What is Operation Magic?

100

The capital of New Guinea

What is Port Moresby?

100

THREE countries under Imperial Japanese occupation throught the course of the war

What is China, the Philippines, Korea, French Indochina, Thailand, Malaya, Burma, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Solomon Islands, and New Guinea?

100

The codename for the United States nuclear development program

What is the Manhattan Project?

100

The full name of DNA

What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

200

Naval Fleet Commanders for both sides of the Battle of Midway

Who is Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Admiral Chester Nimitz?

200

The strategy used by the Allies to advance across the 

Pacific

What is island hopping/leapfrogging?

200

The nickname of the girls used to by Japanese soldier's to 'satisfy pleasures'

What is comfort women?

200

The names of both of the A-bombs used against Japan

What is Little Boy and Fat Man?

200

The cost of 1 gram of antimatter (answer can be ±10%)

What is 62.5 trillion dollars?

300

Any ONE of the four Japanese Carriers at the Battle of Midway

What is the Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, or Soryu?

300

The name of the mountain range fought through in the New Guinea campaign

What is the Owen-Stanley Range?

300

TWO of the ways the Japanese suppressed civilians in occupied territories

What is execution, starvation, forced labour, torture, collective punishment, + any other valid answer?

300

The estimated combined death toll of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the end of 1945 (answer can be ±10%)

What is 210 000 deaths?

300

ONE doubly-landlocked country

What is Liechtenstein or Uzbekistan?

400

The United States' carrier lost during the Battle of Coral Sea

What is USS Lexington?

400

The time period that the Guadalcanal spanned (In months and years)

e.g. January 2025 - December 2026

BONUS DOUBLE POINTS for time to EXACT days

What is August 7, 1942 - February 9, 1943?

400

THREE types of diseases/illnesses civilians were subject to in occupied territories

What is smallpox, cholera, bubonic plague, malaria, dysentery, beriberi?

400

The name of the two B-29 Superfortresses that dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What is Enola Gay and Bockscar?

400

Mac's middle name

What is Ablegmia?

500

Approximate death toll of either battle (answer can be ±10%)

What is 3420 (Midway) or 1620 (Coral Sea)?

500

The name of the Operation to retake Guadalcanal

What is Operation Watchtower?

500

The nickname given during World War II to female English-speaking broadcasters of Japanese Propaganda

What is Tokyo Rose?

500
The director/leader of the A-bomb development program

Who is Leslie Groves?

500

Heads or tails

What is tails?
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