Pearl Harbor trivia
Pearl Harbor Mini Quiz
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Question 1
What substance does the sunken battleship USS Arizona still leak into Pearl Harbor today?
Survivors often call this daily leakage the "black tears" of the USS Arizona. The ship sank with over a million gallons of Bunker C oil still aboard.
Question 2
US radar operators detected the incoming Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor but mistook them for what?
Radar operators at Opana Point assumed the massive blips were a scheduled delivery of American B-17 bombers arriving from mainland California that morning.
Question 3
Why did Japanese forces fail to completely paralyze the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor?
The attack targeted the fleet's primary strike power, but the aircraft carriers USS Enterprise, Lexington, and Saratoga were safely away on delivery missions.