Q 01/05

Which Canadian city hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?

A) Vancouver

B) Montreal

C) Edmonton

D) Calgary

Answer · why

D) Calgary

Host nation Canada failed to win a single official gold medal, just as it had at Montreal in 1976.

Q 02/05

Which city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics?

A) Seoul

B) Barcelona

C) Tokyo

D) Sydney

Answer · why

A) Seoul

They were the last Games for the Soviet Union and East Germany, which topped the medal table in first and second.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the Soviet economic restructuring program formally launched on January 1, 1988?

A) Glasnost

B) Détente

C) Perestroika

D) Kosygin reform

Answer · why

C) Perestroika

In July the party also voted to end its own monopoly on economic power.

Q 04/05

In February 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh voted to leave which Soviet republic and join Armenia?

A) Georgia

B) Azerbaijan

C) Turkmenistan

D) Dagestan

Answer · why

B) Azerbaijan

The vote triggered the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and, within days, the Sumgait pogrom.

Q 05/05

In which city did the first McDonald's in a Communist-run country open on March 24, 1988?

A) Budapest

B) Moscow

C) Belgrade

D) Warsaw

Answer · why

C) Belgrade

Budapest followed, and Moscow and Shenzhen opened in 1990.