Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Wall built in 1961 | {Berlin} Wall | 97%
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The H in H-Bomb | Hydrogen | 92%
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Theoretical line dividing Europe | Iron {Curtain} | 91%
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1962 nuclear stand-off | {Cuban} Missile Crisis | 89%
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Communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro | 89%
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Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War | Joseph Stalin | 89%
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American spy agency | CIA | 86%
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Treaty between the USSR and allies | {Warsaw} Pact | 84%
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Western military alliance | NATO | 80%
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Soviet spy agency | KGB | 79%
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Author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" | George Orwell | 75%
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Famous crossing in the above | Checkpoint {Charlie} | 70%
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What was "mutually assured" in the event of a nuclear war | Destruction | 66%
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British spy agency | MI6 | 66%
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U.S. plan to rebuild Europe after WWII | {Marshall} Plan | 65%
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Communist leader of Cambodia | Pol Pot | 62%
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Theory of "toppling" countries that led to American intervention in Vietnam | {Domino} Theory | 54%
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Russian reform of "openness" introduced in 1985 | Glasnost | 41%
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U.S. Secretary of State (1973-77) | Henry Kissinger | 40%
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Czechoslovakian revolt of 1968 | {Prague} Spring | 40%
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