| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. President at the time | John F. Kennedy | 91%
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| Cuba was seen as a base for missiles for which superpower? | Soviet Union | 88%
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| Site of the failed American invasion in April 1961 | Bay of Pigs | 84%
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| Name of the beret-wearing doctor who joined Castro's cause in Mexico | Ché Guevara | 71%
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| U.S. city which thousands of wealthier Cubans fled to in the wake of the revolution | Miami | 71%
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| Country from which America agreed to remove their missiles in return for the removal of missiles from Cuba | Turkey | 68%
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| Name of Fidel's brother who succeeded him in 2008 | Raúl Castro | 67%
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| Birth country of the above | Argentina | 66%
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| Name of the former army sergeant who seized power during an election in which he was running for president | Fulgencio Batista | 66%
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| Number of days the Missile Crisis lasted | 13 | 62%
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| Name of his attorney general brother | Robert | 62%
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| And the year in which he did it | 1952 | 61%
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| And country of death | Bolivia | 61%
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| Name of U.S. President's counterpart who agreed to this deal | Nikita Khrushchev | 50%
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| According to Castro in his trial following this attack, what will absolve him? | History | 45%
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| Name of the boat which carried the rebels back to Cuba from Mexico | Granma | 29%
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| Name of the army barracks Fidel Castro attacked in 1953 | Moncada Barracks | 25%
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| Number of people aboard said boat | 82 | 21%
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| City in which the 'beret-wearing doctor' from Q5-7 famously defeated a much larger force in December 1958 | Santa Clara | 16%
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| Name of Soviet ambassador who the aforementioned attorney general covertly negotiated with | Anatoly Dobrynin | 6%
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