Statistics for The Dictator Files: Nikita Khrushchev

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Question	Answer	% Correct
In what country did he position nuclear weapons - which triggered a crisis in 1962?	Cuba	96%
In what war did he fight as a lieutenant general?	World War II	93%
With what other communist country did he break relations between 1956–1966?	China	84%
Who was the first human ever in the space?	Yuri Gagarin	83%
What country revolted against the Soviet Union in 1956 - but was brutally suppressed?	Hungary	82%
What did he rename the city of Stalingrad to?	Volgograd	82%
What magazine named him the "Person of the Year" in 1957?	Time Magazine	78%
Which of Soviet Union's republics was he the leader of?	Ukraine	78%
Who succeeded him after he was forced to resign as the Soviet Union's leader?	Leonid Brezhnev	74%
What series of political reforms did he implement after the death of Joseph Stalin?	{De}-{Stalinization}	69%
In what 1960 incident was an American spy plane shot down by Soviet Union?	{U}-{2} incident	52%
What did he famously bang on the delegate-desk in his speech at the UN General Assembly in 1960?	His Shoe	50%
Who did he organize an ouster of in 1955 - the supposedly successor of Stalin?	{Georgi} Malenkov	49%
What symbolic structure did he approve to be constructed in 1961?	Berlin Wall	41%
What actor in "Boardwalk Empire" portrayed him in the comedy "The Death of Stalin"?	Steve {Buscemi}	38%
What was the name of the report he made about criticising the reign of Stalin?	{Secret} Speech	37%
What medical condition did he die of in 1971?	Heart Attack	30%
In what period during his reign were repression and censorship relaxed?	Khrushchev {Thaw}	29%
What phrase did he use while addressing Western ambassadors in Moscow in 1956?	We will {bury} you	28%
What was his 1953 plan to boost Soviet Union's agricultural production?	{Virgin} Lands	20%