Q 01/05

In the famous 1960 Korda photograph, what is Che Guevara wearing on his head?

A) A steel helmet

B) A black beret

C) A peaked army cap

D) A straw hat

Answer · why

B) A black beret

A black beret. Korda never earned royalties from the picture, but when a vodka brand put it in an advert in 2000 he sued, then gave his $50,000 settle...

Q 02/05

Which chronic condition afflicted Guevara throughout his life?

A) Diabetes

B) Asthma

C) Haemophilia

D) Epilepsy

Answer · why

B) Asthma

Asthma. His first attack came at the age of two, and on doctors' advice his parents moved the whole family to the dry hill town of Alta Gracia, where ...

Q 03/05

Which sport earned the young Guevara the nickname 'Fuser', for his aggressive play?

A) Rugby union

B) Boxing

C) Football

D) Water polo

Answer · why

A) Rugby union

Rugby union. 'Fuser' squeezed together Furibundo, 'furious', and Serna, his mother's surname, and he liked the game enough to found and edit a rugby m...

Q 04/05

Which poet, whose love poems the teenage Guevara recited to a girlfriend, remained his favourite?

A) Federico García Lorca

B) Walt Whitman

C) Antonio Machado

D) Pablo Neruda

Answer · why

D) Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda. The habit lasted to the end: as a guerrilla in Bolivia in 1967 he was still copying Neruda's verse into a notebook and quoting it in his...

Q 05/05

Which agency's 1958 personality report called Guevara 'fairly intellectual for a Latino'?

A) MI6

B) The FBI

C) The KGB

D) The CIA

Answer · why

D) The CIA

The CIA. Its file also allowed that he was 'quite well read': as a teenager he had filled notebooks with his own summaries of Freud, Aristotle and Nie...