Q 01/05

Which magazine gave the whole editorial space of one August 1946 issue to John Hersey's Hiroshima?

A) Harper's Magazine

B) The New Yorker

C) The Atlantic Monthly

D) Collier's Weekly

Answer · why

B) The New Yorker

The New Yorker had planned to run the piece over four issues, then printed it all at once. The issue sold out at newsstands within hours.

Q 02/05

Which famous physicist tried to order 1,000 copies of the magazine issue carrying John Hersey's Hiroshima?

A) Robert Oppenheimer

B) Enrico Fermi

C) Niels Bohr

D) Albert Einstein

Answer · why

D) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein wanted the copies to send to fellow scientists, but the issue had sold out and he had to settle for facsimiles.

Q 03/05

What did the cover illustration show on the magazine issue that first carried John Hersey's Hiroshima?

A) A crowded Manhattan jazz club

B) A summer day outdoors

C) A ruined city skyline

D) A rising mushroom cloud

Answer · why

B) A summer day outdoors

The cover showed a summer day outdoors, a playful, carefree drawing that gave no hint of the report inside. The editors had kept the contents secret e...

Q 04/05

What crushed the leg of the clerk Miss Toshiko Sasaki when the bomb struck in John Hersey's Hiroshima?

A) A steel filing cabinet

B) Falling bookcases

C) A collapsing staircase

D) A heavy printing press

Answer · why

B) Falling bookcases

Falling bookcases pinned her beneath the factory's library, breaking her left leg. She lay unconscious in the wreckage for about three hours.

Q 05/05

On which American TV show did the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Hersey's Hiroshima meet a member of the bomber crew?

A) The Ed Sullivan Show

B) Person to Person

C) This Is Your Life

D) I've Got a Secret

Answer · why

C) This Is Your Life

This Is Your Life brought on Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay, to shake the pastor's hand in 1955. Tanimoto had been told he was coming for an ...