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  • This quiz has been taken 565 times
    (365 since last reset)
  • The average score is 12 of 19

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution?{Fidel} Castro
98%
What ocean inlet was site of a failed invasion planned by the United States?Bay of {Pigs}
91%
What was abolished in 1886?Slavery
91%
Who was the first European to visit Cuba?Christopher Columbus
89%
Who left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia,
where he was captured and executed?		Che Guevara
84%
What style of music, whose name means "sauce" in Spanish,
is based on Cuban traditions?		Salsa
79%
What plant was mainly grown in Cuba during the Spanish rule?Sugar
78%
Who succeeded him in 2011 as the First Secretary of the Communist Party?{Raúl} Castro
77%
What dictator was overthrown in 1959?Fulgencio Batista
69%
What was placed in Cuba in 1962, sparking a crisis?Nuclear Missiles
69%
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%
After what war was the Spanish rule in Cuba put to an end?Spanish–American War
66%
To what former Portuguese colony in Africa did Cuba send 18,000 troops in 1975?Angola
64%
In what game was José Capablanca the world champion of between 1921-27?Chess
42%
Who where the pre-Columbian indigenous ethnic group of Cuba? hint: starts with TThe Taíno
35%
What Miami Sound Machine singer's family fled Cuba in 1959?Gloria Estefan
33%
What Cuban-American bandleader married Lucille Ball in 1940?Desi Arnaz
29%
During what event did Cuba ship 125,000 refugees, dissidents, criminals,
asylum patients, and homosexuals to the U.S. in 1980?		Mariel {Boat}lift
27%
What type of dance popularised by Pérez Prado in the 1950s?Mambo
25%

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