Statistics for 1961 year quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Kennedy announces goal of putting man here by end of decade	The moon	100%
Construction starts on this divisive German edifice	Berlin Wall	95%
This man is globally feted for venturing into space	Yuri Gagarin	80%
A CIA invasion plot goes very badly wrong on this landing spot	The Bay of Pigs	75%
Police kill Algerian protesters and fling their bodies into the river in this city	Paris	60%
Stalin's eradication from Soviet public life continues with this new city name	Volgograd	58%
This ballet great defects to the West	Rudolf Nureyev	40%
The Swedish head of this international organisation is killed in a Zambia plane crash	The United Nations	40%
This indomitable Gaul first gets a book	Asterix	38%
Belgium and the US stand accused in murder of this leftist African leader	Patrice Lumumba	20%