The Dictator Files: Nikita Khrushchev - Statistics

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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%
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