Statistics for Cuban Revolution/ Missile Crisis Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
U.S. President at the time	John F. Kennedy	92%
Cuba was seen as a base for missiles for which superpower?	Soviet Union	88%
Site of the failed American invasion in April 1961	Bay of Pigs	85%
Name of the beret-wearing doctor who joined Castro's cause in Mexico	Ché Guevara	71%
U.S. city which thousands of wealthier Cubans fled to in the wake of the revolution	Miami	71%
Name of Fidel's brother who succeeded him in 2008	Raúl Castro	68%
Country from which America agreed to remove their missiles in return for the removal of missiles from Cuba	Turkey	68%
Birth country of the above	Argentina	64%
Name of the former army sergeant who seized power during an election in which he was running for president	Fulgencio Batista	64%
Name of his attorney general brother	Robert	64%
Number of days the Missile Crisis lasted	13	62%
And the year in which he did it	1952	60%
And country of death	Bolivia	60%
Name of U.S. President's counterpart who agreed to this deal	Nikita Khrushchev	51%
According to Castro in his trial following this attack, what will absolve him?	History	44%
Name of the boat which carried the rebels back to Cuba from Mexico	Granma	29%
Name of the army barracks Fidel Castro attacked in 1953	Moncada Barracks	23%
Number of people aboard said boat	82	22%
City in which the 'beret-wearing doctor' from Q5-7 famously defeated a much larger force in December 1958	Santa Clara	17%
Name of Soviet ambassador who the aforementioned attorney general covertly negotiated with	Anatoly Dobrynin	6%