| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Wall built in 1961 | {Berlin} Wall | 97%
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| The H in H-Bomb | Hydrogen | 92%
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| Theoretical line dividing Europe | Iron {Curtain} | 90%
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| 1962 nuclear stand-off | {Cuban} Missile Crisis | 89%
|
| Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War | Joseph Stalin | 89%
|
| Communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro | 88%
|
| American spy agency | CIA | 86%
|
| Treaty between the USSR and allies | {Warsaw} Pact | 84%
|
| Western military alliance | NATO | 80%
|
| Soviet spy agency | KGB | 79%
|
| Author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | George Orwell | 75%
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| Famous crossing in the above | Checkpoint {Charlie} | 69%
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| What was "mutually assured" in the event of a nuclear war | Destruction | 66%
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| U.S. plan to rebuild Europe after WWII | {Marshall} Plan | 65%
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| British spy agency | MI6 | 65%
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| Communist leader of Cambodia | Pol Pot | 61%
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| Theory of "toppling" countries that led to American intervention in Vietnam | {Domino} Theory | 53%
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| Russian reform of "openness" introduced in 1985 | Glasnost | 41%
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| Czechoslovakian revolt of 1968 | {Prague} Spring | 40%
|
| U.S. Secretary of State (1973-77) | Henry Kissinger | 39%
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