| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| In what country did he position nuclear weapons - which triggered a crisis in 1962? | Cuba | 95%
|
| In what war did he fight as a lieutenant general? | World War II | 94%
|
| With what other communist country did he break relations between 1956–1966? | China | 83%
|
| Who was the first human ever in the space? | Yuri Gagarin | 82%
|
| What did he rename the city of Stalingrad to? | Volgograd | 81%
|
| What country revolted against the Soviet Union in 1956 - but was brutally suppressed? | Hungary | 80%
|
| What magazine named him the "Person of the Year" in 1957? | Time Magazine | 78%
|
| Which of Soviet Union's republics was he the leader of? | Ukraine | 78%
|
| Who succeeded him after he was forced to resign as the Soviet Union's leader? | Leonid Brezhnev | 75%
|
| What series of political reforms did he implement after the death of Joseph Stalin? | {De}-{Stalinization} | 69%
|
| In what 1960 incident was an American spy plane shot down by Soviet Union? | {U}-{2} incident | 50%
|
| What did he famously bang on the delegate-desk in his speech at the UN General Assembly in 1960? | His Shoe | 48%
|
| Who did he organize an ouster of in 1955 - the supposedly successor of Stalin? | {Georgi} Malenkov | 47%
|
| What symbolic structure did he approve to be constructed in 1961? | Berlin Wall | 40%
|
| What actor in "Boardwalk Empire" portrayed him in the comedy "The Death of Stalin"? | Steve {Buscemi} | 37%
|
| What was the name of the report he made about criticising the reign of Stalin? | {Secret} Speech | 36%
|
| What medical condition did he die of in 1971? | Heart Attack | 27%
|
| In what period during his reign were repression and censorship relaxed? | Khrushchev {Thaw} | 26%
|
| What phrase did he use while addressing Western ambassadors in Moscow in 1956? | We will {bury} you | 24%
|
| What was his 1953 plan to boost Soviet Union's agricultural production? | {Virgin} Lands | 18%
|