| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Kennedy announces goal of putting man here by end of decade | The moon | 100%
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| Construction starts on this divisive German edifice | Berlin Wall | 92%
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| This man is globally feted for venturing into space | Yuri Gagarin | 81%
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| A CIA invasion plot goes very badly wrong on this landing spot | The Bay of Pigs | 68%
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| Stalin's eradication from Soviet public life continues with this new city name | Volgograd | 58%
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| Police kill Algerian protesters and fling their bodies into the river in this city | Paris | 55%
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| The Swedish head of this international organisation is killed in a Zambia plane crash | The United Nations | 42%
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| This ballet great defects to the West | Rudolf Nureyev | 36%
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| This indomitable Gaul first gets a book | Asterix | 34%
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| Belgium and the US stand accused in murder of this leftist African leader | Patrice Lumumba | 23%
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