Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What U.S. sponsored invasion was launched to try to overthrow Castro in 1961? | Bay of {Pigs} | 95%
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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 | 92%
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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 | 75%
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What sport did Castro play? | Baseball | 73%
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Supposedly, the CIA once discussed killing Castro using an exploding ____. | Cigar | 71%
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What is the name of Fidel Castro's brother? | {Raúl} Castro | 71%
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What disease did Cuba contain by putting people testing positive in camps? | AIDS | 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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Who was Castro's favorite writer? (Hint: an American who spent time in Cuba) | Ernest Hemingway | 65%
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With what Venezuelan leader did Castro develop a close friendship? | Hugo Chávez | 61%
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What dictator did Castro overthrow in 1959? | Fulgencio Batista | 53%
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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 | 39%
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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 | 25%
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What city's Moncada Barracks did Castro attack in 1953? | Santiago de Cuba | 20%
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What speech did Castro give in court to defend his actions in the above attack? | History Will {Absolve} Me | 18%
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