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The Dictator Files: Fidel Castro - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 12,290 times
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- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What U.S. sponsored invasion was launched to try to overthrow Castro in 1961? | Bay of {Pigs} | 94%
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| What 1962 event nearly triggered WWIII? | Cuban {Missile} Crisis | 94%
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| What party did Castro lead? | Communist Party of Cuba | 93%
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| What country propped up Cuba's finances until 1991? | Soviet Union | 91%
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| What famous Argentian revolutionary fought alongside Castro? | Che Guevara | 90%
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| What Canadian leader effusively praised Castro upon his death in 2016? | Justin Trudeau | 74%
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| What sport did Castro play? | Baseball | 71%
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| Supposedly, the CIA once discussed killing Castro using an exploding ____. | Cigar | 69%
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| What is the name of Fidel Castro's brother? | {Raúl} Castro | 67%
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| To what former Portuguese colony in Africa did Cuba send 18,000 troops in 1975? | Angola | 66%
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| What disease did Cuba contain by putting people testing positive in camps? | AIDS | 65%
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| Who was Castro's favorite writer? (Hint: an American who spent time in Cuba) | Ernest Hemingway | 62%
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| With what Venezuelan leader did Castro develop a close friendship? | Hugo Chávez | 58%
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| What dictator did Castro overthrow in 1959? | Fulgencio Batista | 52%
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| Ruling for 50 years, Castro had the longest reign of any non-_____ head of state in world history. | Royal | 50%
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| What rum company fled Cuba after their property was nationalized in 1960? | Bacardi | 37%
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| What movement did Cuba join, and even chair, despite its close alliance with the above country? | Non-{Aligned} Movement | 32%
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| During what event did Cuba ship 125,000 refugees, dissidents, criminals, asylum patients, and homosexuals to the U.S. in 1980? | Mariel {boat}lift | 23%
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| What city's Moncada Barracks did Castro attack in 1953? | Santiago de Cuba | 18%
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| What speech did Castro give in court to defend his actions in the above attack? | History Will {Absolve} Me | 17%
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