Statistics for The Dictator Files: Joseph Stalin

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who preceded Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union?	V. I. Lenin	95%
Who were the other two leaders of the "Big 3" allied leaders of WWII?	Winston Churchill	94%
What term referred to the division between free and Communist Europe after WWII?	The {Iron} Curtain	93%
Who were the other two leaders of the "Big 3" allied leaders of WWII?	Franklin D. Roosevelt	91%
With what country did the USSR sign a non-aggression pact in 1939?	Germany	84%
What does the name Stalin mean?	Man of {Steel}	81%
What prize was Stalin nominated for in 1945 and 1948?	Nobel Peace Prize	81%
What country (then part of the Russian Empire) was Stalin born in?	Georgia	79%
What "archipelago" of forced-labor prisons was greatly expanded by Stalin?	The Gulag	72%
What region of the Soviet Union suffered millions of the deaths during the "Holodomor" famine of 1932–1933?	Ukraine	69%
What Soviet leader of the 1950s and 1960s "de-Stalinized" the country?	Nikita Khrushchev	68%
What book features a pig named Napoleon who is remarkably similar to Stalin?	Animal Farm	67%
What rival communist leader was assassinated in Mexico City on Stalin's orders?	Leon Trotsky	67%
What was the name of Stalin's killing of at least 600,000 political enemies - including almost every high ranking military officer in the late 1930s?	The Great {Purge}	59%
What city was known as Stalingrad from 1925–1961?	Volgograd	52%
Fill the blank in this quote that is mis-attributed to Stalin: The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a _________	Statistic	49%
By what friendly nickname was Stalin known in the U.S. during WWII?	{Uncle} Joe	48%
What disease scarred his face as a boy?	Smallpox	45%
What American western film star did Stalin supposedly try to kill?	John Wayne	37%
What job did Stalin originally train for?	Priest	23%