Q 01/05

Which Kevin Costner film dramatises the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A) JFK

B) Thirteen Days

C) No Way Out

D) Seven Days in May

Answer · why

B) Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days. The title counts the crisis's length and matches Robert Kennedy's memoir, but the makers bought the rights to The Kennedy Tapes, transc...

Q 02/05

What do Russians call the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A) The Caribbean Crisis

B) The Havana Crisis

C) The Kennedy Crisis

D) The Atlantic Crisis

Answer · why

A) The Caribbean Crisis

The Caribbean Crisis. Cubans know it as the October Crisis and remember its ending bitterly: Khrushchev settled with Kennedy without consulting Castro...

Q 03/05

Which American nuclear missiles stood in Italy and Turkey, within range of Moscow, during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

A) Minuteman

B) Polaris

C) Jupiter

D) Atlas

Answer · why

C) Jupiter

Jupiter. Washington already thought them obsolete and meant to retire them, which let Robert Kennedy quietly promise their removal so long as it staye...

Q 04/05

Which code name, borrowed from a river in Russia's far east, hid the Soviet missile shipments to Cuba?

A) Maskirovka

B) Zapata

C) Danube

D) Anadyr

Answer · why

D) Anadyr

Anadyr. Secrecy ran so deep that the whole plan was written out by hand, so that not even a secretary would see it; Khrushchev approved the handwritte...

Q 05/05

What were Soviet troops sailing for Cuba in 1962 issued, to disguise where they were headed?

A) Sun helmets and desert kit

B) Oilskins and fishing nets

C) Parkas and other winter kit

D) Mosquito nets and quinine

Answer · why

C) Parkas and other winter kit

Parkas and other winter kit. The men were told only that they were bound for a cold region, while the missile specialists flew in posing as farm exper...