Summer Hiatus Challenge 2017--TOC Day 5

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Summer Hiatus Challenge 2017--TOC Day 5

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We're almost at the end. One more day to go after this one.

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20th CENTURY JAPAN
2: This emperor surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, but his sovereignty was maintained.

4: The U.S. took over this Japanese island in 1945 and ceded it to Japan in 1972.

6: This index closed at a record high of 38916 on Dec. 29, 1989; it still hasn't returned to that peak.

8: Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating this treaty ending the Russo-Japanese war.

10: The attack on Pearl Harbor was conceived by this admiral, the commander-in-chief of Japan's combined fleet.

THE BEATLES

3: It's where you'll find "a barber showing photographs", "a banker with a motorcar", and a "fireman with an hourglass".

6: In "Let It Be", this is the name of the mother who provides the title "words of wisdom".

9: I tell you something, the Beatles topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time on Feb. 1, 1964 with this song.

12: Paul McCartney said that Martin Amis may have been the inspiration for this song, released as a single with "Rain" on the B-side.

15: The only musician not in the Fab Four to be credited on a Beatles recording was this pianist who played keyboard on "Get Back".
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2017--TOC Day 5

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Answers will go here.

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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Tokyo Stock Exchange
8: CLAM
10: Yamamoto

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: CLAM
15: CLAM
Edited to put the first spoiler bracket.
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Spoiler
20TH CENTURY JAPAN
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Nikkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10: Yamamoto

THE BEATLES
3: Penny Lane?
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer?
15: Billy Preston?
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Nikkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10:

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: Please Please Me
12:
15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Iwo Jima
6: Nikkei
8: Portsmouth
10: Tojo

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
20th CENTURY JAPAN
2: Hirohito

4: Okinawa

6: Nikkei

8: Treaty of CLAM

10: Yamamoto

THE BEATLES

3: Penny Lane

6: Mary

9: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

12: Paperback writer? (Sure that it wasn't his father Kingsley?)

15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Iwo Jima
6: Nikkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10: Yamamoto

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: NIkkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10: Yamamoto

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15:
"And has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky"
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Nikkei
8: Portsmouth
10: Tojo

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15: Billy Preston
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge 2017--TOC Day 5

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20th CENTURY JAPAN

2: Who is Hirohito?

4: What is Okinawa?

6: What is the Nikkei?

8: What is the Treaty of CLAM?

10: Who is Yamamoto?

THE BEATLES

3: Where is Penny Lane?

6: Who is Mary?

9: What is I Want to Hold Your Hand?

12: What is Paperback Writer?

15: Who is Billy Preston?
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Spoiler
20th CENTURY JAPAN
2: Hirohito

4: Okinawa

6: Nikkei

8: Treaty of Portsmouth

10: Yamamoto

THE BEATLES

3: Penny Lane

6: Mother Mary

9: I Want To Hold Your Hand

12: Paperback Writer

15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
20th CENTURY JAPAN
2. Hirohito
4. Okinawa
6. Nikkei
8. CLAM
10. Yamamoto

THE BEATLES
3. Penny Lane
6. Mother Mary
9. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. Paperback Writer
15. Billy Preston
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Spoiler
20th CENTURY JAPAN
2: Hirohito

4: Okinawa

6: Nikkei

8: Treaty of Portsmouth

10: Yamamoto

THE BEATLES

3: Penny Lane

6: Mary

9: I Want To Hold Your Hand

12: Paperback Writer

15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Nikkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10: Yamamoto

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15: Billy Preston
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Spoiler
2. Hirohito
4. Okinawa
6. Nikkei
8. Treaty of Portsmouth
10. Yamamoto

3. the U.S.S.R.
6. Julia
9. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. Paperback Writer
15.
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rjaguar3 wrote: Mon Sep 18, 2017 8:44 am Answer template:
Spoiler
2: Hirohito
4: Okinawa
6: Nikkei
8: Treaty of Portsmouth
10: Yamamoto

3: Penny Lane
6: Mary
9: I Want to Hold Your Hand
12: Paperback Writer
15: Billy Preston
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