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Cold War Personalities - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 61 times
- The average score is 53 of 130
Answer Stats
| Country | Activity | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
 | President of the U. S. (1963-1969) | Lyndon Johnson | 86%
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 | General Secretary of China (1949-1979) | Mao Zedong | 84%
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 | Dictator of Uganda (1971-1979) | Idi Amin | 80%
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 | Dictator of North Korea (1948-1994) | Kim Il Sung | 78%
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 | President of North Vietnam (1945-1973) | Ho Chi Minh | 76%
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| President of the U. S. (1977-1981) | Jimmy Carter | 76%
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 | General Secretary (1985-1989) and President (1989-1991) of USSR | Mikhail Gorbachev | 76%
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| President of the U. S. (1969-1974) | Richard Nixon | 76%
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| President of the U. S. (1977-1989) | Ronald Reagan | 76%
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 | Dictator of Cuba (1959-2008); Revolutionary | Fidel Castro | 73%
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| President of the U. S. (1974-1977) | Gerald Ford | 73%
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| President of the U. S. (1945-1953) | Harry Truman | 73%
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| First Lady of the U. S. (1961-1963); Wife of U. S. President and Greek billionaire | Jacqueline Kennedy | 73%
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| Social activist, fighter for the rights; read "I Have a Dream'' speech | Martin Luther King Jr. | 73%
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| Astronaut; one of two first men on the Moon | Neil Armstrong | 73%
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| General Secretary of USSR (1924-1953) | Joseph Stalin | 71%
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 | Anti-Apartheid activist; first black president of South Africa (1994-1999) | Nelson Mandela | 71%
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 | Revolutionary, military; communist idol | Che Guevara | 69%
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 | Queen of the U. K. (1952-2022) | Elizabeth II | 69%
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 | Prime Minister of India (1966-1977; 1980-1984); daughter of the first Prime Minister of India | Indira Gandhi | 69%
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| President of the U. S. (1961-1963) | John Kennedy | 69%
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 | President and leader of Yugoslavia (1945-1980); founder of Non-aligned movement | Josip Broz Tito | 69%
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| Leader of Independence movement of India, supporter of nonviolent resistance | Mahatma Gandhi | 69%
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 | Leader of Libya (1967-2011); Military personnel | Muammar Gaddafi | 67%
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| Prime Minister of the U. K. (1940-1945; 1951-1955) | Winston Churchill | 67%
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 | Emperor of Japan (1926-1989) | Hirohito | 65%
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| Musician; The Beatles soloist | John Lennon | 63%
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| President of the U. S. (1953-1961) | Dwight Eisenhower | 61%
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 | Caudillo of Spain (1936-1975) | Francisco Franco | 61%
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| President of the U. S. (1989-1993) | George H. W. Bush | 59%
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| General Secretary of USSR (1953-1964) | Nikita Khrushchev | 59%
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 | Dictator of Iraq (1979-2003); untied the Iran-Iraq War and Gulf War | Saddam Hussein | 59%
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| Leader of China (1976-1989) | Deng Xiaoping | 57%
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  | President of Egypt and United Arab Republic (1956-1970) | Gamal Nasser | 57%
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  | Pope (1978-2005) | John Paul II | 57%
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| Republican senator, anti-communist, the McCarthyism ideologue | Joseph McCarthy | 57%
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| General Secretary of USSR (1964-1982) | Leonid Brezhnev | 57%
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| Cosmonaut; First man in space | Yuri Gagarin | 57%
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| Physicist, emigrant; created the theory of relativity, warned against the nuclear war | Albert Einstein | 55%
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 | Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1984) | Pierre Trudeau | 55%
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 | President of Egypt (1970-1981) | Anwar Sadat | 53%
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 | Military, Dictator of Chile (1973-1990) | Augusto Pinochet | 53%
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 | Military; President of France (1959-1969) | Charles de Gaulle | 53%
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 | Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-1974) | Haile Selassie I | 53%
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 | Dictator of Panama (1983-1989) | Manuel Noriega | 51%
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| Prime Minister of the U. K (1979-1990) | Margaret Thatcher | 51%
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 | Prime Minister of Kampuchea (1976-1979); perpetrator of genocide in Kampuchea | Pol Pot | 51%
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| President of Russian SFSR (1990-1991) | Boris Yeltsin | 49%
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 | Dictator of China (1928-1975); Leader of Kuomintang Party | Chiang Kai-Shek | 49%
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| King of the U. K. (1936-1952) | George VI | 49%
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| Syrian dictator (1970-2000) | Hafez Assad | 49%
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 | Military; Dictator of South Korea (1962-1979) | Park Chung Hee | 49%
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| Royalty, goodwill ambassador, "Queen of Hearts"; ex-wife of Charles III | Princess Diana | 49%
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 | Chairman of Palestinian Liberation Organization (1969-2004) | Yasser Arafat | 49%
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 | President of the Philippines (1965-1986); dictator | Ferdinand Marcos | 47%
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 | Leader of the Islamic Revolution; Ayatollah of Iran (1979-1989) | Ruhollah Khomeini | 47%
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| President of France (1981-1995) | François Mitterrand | 45%
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 | Only Prime Minister-woman of Israel (1960-1974) | Golda Meir | 45%
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| Social activist, fighter for rights; she refused to give up the seat in the bus | Rosa Parks | 45%
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| Diplomat, SecState of U. S.; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Henry Kissinger | 43%
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| Social activist, dissident, leader of Solidarity movement | Lech Walęsa | 43%
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| "Virtuous" nun, social and religious figure | Mother Teresa | 43%
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 | Drug lord, criminal, head of the Medellin cocain cartel | Pablo Escobar | 43%
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| President of Chile (1970-1973); socialist | Salvador Allende | 43%
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 | President of Indonesia (1967-1998); dictator | Suharto | 43%
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 | Chancellor of FRG (1969-1974) | Willy Brandt | 41%
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| Anti-Apartheid activist; archbishop; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | Desmond Tutu | 39%
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| Dictator of Cuba (1940-1944; 1952-1959) | Fulgensio Batista | 39%
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| Prime Minister of India (1947-1964); "father" of independent India | Jawaharlal Nehru | 39%
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| President of Indonesia (1945-1966); Leader of Indonesian Independence Movement | Sukarno | 39%
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| Prime Minister of Israel (1974-1977; 1992-1995) | Yitzhak Rabin | 39%
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| General Secretary of USSR (1983-1984) | Yuri Andropov | 39%
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 | Dictator of Albania (1944-1985) | Enver Hoxha | 37%
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| Chancellor of FRG (1982-1998) | Helmut Kohl | 37%
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| Astronaut; one of two first men on the Moon | Buzz Aldrin | 35%
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 | Social activist, dissident, anti-communist; President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1993) | Václav Havel | 35%
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 | President of Argentina (1946-1955; 1973-1974) | Juan Peron | 33%
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 | Shah of Iran (1941-1979) | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | 33%
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| Prime Minister of the U. K (1955-1957) | Anthony Eden | 31%
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 | Prime Minister of Portugal (1932-1968) | Antonio Salazar | 31%
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 | Dictator of Nicaragua (1979-1990; 2007-) | Daniel Ortega | 31%
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| Chancellor of FRG (1949-1963) | Konrad Adenauer | 31%
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 | Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-1990) | Lee Kuan Yew | 31%
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 | Dictator of Romania (1965-1989) | Nicolae Ceausescu | 31%
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 | Dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930-1961) | Rafael Trujillo | 31%
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| | German and American scientist; constructor of rockets and bombs, Father of American space program | Wernher von Braun | 29%
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| American communist; convicted of spying for USSR | Ethel Rosenberg | 27%
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 | First President of Kenya (1964-1978) | Jomo Kenyatta | 27%
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| American communist; convicted of spying for USSR | Julius Rosenberg | 27%
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| General Secretary of USSR (1984-1985) | Konstantin Chernenko | 27%
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs (1939-1949), Permanent Representative to the IAEA (1960-1963) | Vyacheslav Molotov | 27%
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 | First Secretary of GDR (1950-1971) | Walter Ulbricht | 27%
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| First Secretary of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969); opportunist | Alexander Dubček | 24%
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| First Secretary of GDR (1971-1989) | Erich Honecker | 24%
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 | President of Ghana (1960-1966) | Kwame Nkrumah | 24%
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 | First Prime Minister of Congo (1960) | Patrice Lumumba | 24%
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 | President of Burkina Faso (1983-1987) | Thomas Sankara | 24%
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 | Prime Minister of Dominica; "Iron Lady of the Caribbean" | Eugenia Charles | 22%
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| Prime Minister of the U. K (1957-1963 | Harold Macmillan | 22%
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| Prime Minister of the U. K. (1964-1970; 1974-1976) | Harold Wilson | 22%
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| First President of South Korea (1948-1960) | Syngman Rhee | 22%
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 | Dictator of Ethiopia (1974-1991); head of the Derg, communist | Mengistu Haile Mariam | 20%
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| Military; leader and dictator of Poland (1981-1990) | Wojcech Jaruzelski | 20%
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| American pilot; CIA spy who was shot down by USSR | Francis Powers | 18%
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| President of France (1974-1981) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | 18%
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| Political and human rights activist; the Communist Party member | Angela Davis | 14%
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| Christian leader, evangelist; Southern Baptist Minister | Billy Graham | 14%
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| Revolutionary, communist; co-founder of Black Panthers Movement | Huey Newton | 14%
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 | General Secretary of Bulgaria (1954-1991) | Todor Zhivkov | 14%
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| Dissident, writer of 'GULAG Archipelago' | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | 12%
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957-1985) | Andrei Gromyko | 12%
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| Soviet dissident; invented the hydrogen bomb | Andrei Sakharov | 12%
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 | General Secretary of Hungary (1956-1989) | János Kádár | 12%
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 | Prime Minister (1950-1956) and President (1956-1982) of Finland; OSCE | Urho Kekkonen | 12%
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 | President of Angola (1975-1979); fighter for independence of Angola | Agostinho Neto | 10%
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 | Prime Minister of Australia (1983-1991) | Bob Hawke | 10%
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| Schoolgirl, goodwill ambassador, visited USSR and met General Secretary | Samantha Smith | 10%
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| President of Czechoslovakia (1975-1989) | Gustáv Husák | 8%
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| Soviet politician; Head of the Soviet atomic program | Lavrentiy Beria | 8%
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| President of GDR (1949-1960) | Wilhelm Pieck | 8%
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR (1985-1990) | Eduard Shevardnadze | 6%
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 | Dictator of Hungary (1949-1956) | Mátyás Rákosi | 6%
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 | President of Afghanistan (1987-1992) | Mohammad Najibullah | 6%
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| Prime Minister of France (1947-1948), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1948-1952) | Robert Schuman | 6%
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| Rocket scientist; head constructor of OKB-1 | Sergei Korolev | 4%
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| Prime Minister of Japan (1946-1947; 1948-1954) | Shigeru Yoshida | 4%
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| Soviet Spy, was known "Gordon Lonsdale" | Konon Molody | 2%
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 | Minister of Foreign affairs of Ireland (1949-1951); Nobel laureate, member of Amnesty International | Sean McBride | 2%
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary (1989-1990); Raised the Iron Curtain | Gyula Horn | 0%
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| Military; co-founder of CIA; Chief of Staff of U. S. Forces in South Korea | John Singlaub | 0%
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