Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution? | {Fidel} Castro | 98%
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What ocean inlet was site of a failed invasion planned by the United States? | Bay of {Pigs} | 91%
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What was abolished in 1886? | Slavery | 91%
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Who was the first European to visit Cuba? | Christopher Columbus | 89%
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Who left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured and executed? | Che Guevara | 84%
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What style of music, whose name means "sauce" in Spanish, is based on Cuban traditions? | Salsa | 79%
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Who succeeded him in 2011 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party? | {Raúl} Castro | 78%
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What plant was mainly grown in Cuba during the Spanish rule? | Sugar | 78%
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What dictator was overthrown in 1959? | Fulgencio Batista | 69%
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What was placed in Cuba in 1962, sparking a crisis? | Nuclear Missiles | 69%
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What U.S. navy ship was sunk in the Havana Harbour in 1889, sparking that war?
(hint: namesake of a New England state) | USS {Maine} | 68%
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After what war was the Spanish rule in Cuba put to an end? | Spanish–American War | 66%
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To what former Portuguese colony in Africa did Cuba send 18,000 troops in 1975? | Angola | 65%
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In what game was José Capablanca the world champion of between 1921-27? | Chess | 43%
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Who where the pre-Columbian indigenous ethnic group of Cuba? hint: starts with T | The Taíno | 35%
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What Miami Sound Machine singer's family fled Cuba in 1959? | Gloria Estefan | 33%
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What Cuban-American bandleader married Lucille Ball in 1940? | Desi Arnaz | 29%
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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 | 28%
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What type of dance popularised by Pérez Prado in the 1950s? | Mambo | 25%
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