Hiroshima Day Special Quiz

Hiroshima Day Special Quiz

Hiroshima Day is observed on August 6 every year. It aims to promote peace politics against the war. This day is a reminder of the bombing attack on Hiroshima by the United States during World War II. Here is a quiz based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

Hiroshima Day Special Quiz

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1. Who among the following played a major role in the development of the nuclear bomb?

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Otto Hahn

2. What was the name of the research and development project to develop the nuclear bomb?

The Hiroshima Project
The Manhattan Project
The Falcom Project
The Chicago Project

3. What does the Japanese word "Hibakusha" mean?

People died in nuclear attacks
Nuclear attack
Sruvivors of atomic bombs
Antinuclear movement

4. What was the code name for the nuclear bomb that was dropped in the city of Nagasaki?

Fat Man
Thin Man
Little Boy
Fat Man

5. What was the code name for the nuclear bomb that was dropped in the city of Hiroshima?

Fat Man
Thin Man
Little Boy
Fat Man

6. Do you know the name of the pilot who flew the bomber that dropped the first atomic bombs in Hiroshima?

Paul Dirac
Enrish Hartmann
Gunther Rall
Paul Tibbets

7. What was the name of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber that was used to drop the nuclear bomb I Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Enola Gay
Jabit III
Big Stink
Necessary Evil

8. Who was the President of the United States at the time of the Hiroshima nuclear attack?

Franklin D Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. On which date the first nuclear bomb was dropped in Hiroshima?

August 8
August 7
August 6
August 1

10. Which one of the following was used to make the nuclear bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima?

Uranium 235
Plutonium 239
Polonium 239
Thorium 233

11. One thousand origami cranes, the ancient Japanese legend, was popularised by the story of a two-year-old Japanese girl, who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Do you know her name?

Anne Frank
Fumiko Shizuka
Sadako Sasaki
Hiroko Sasaki

12. What was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear device conducted in 1945 by the United States?

Castle Bravo
Opeation Crossroads
Ivy Mike
Trinity

13. 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'. Who said this well-known line from Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in Hiroshima?

Harry S Truman
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Feynman
Dwight D. Eisenhower

14. Who was the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1?

J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Feynman
Enrico Fermi
James Chadwick

15. Where was the atomic bomb successfully tested on 16 July 1945?

Nevada Test Site
Amchitka Island, Alaska
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Green Valley, Colarado

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