Q 01/05

Which US president was in office when Castro's forces crushed the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961?

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) John F. Kennedy

C) Lyndon B. Johnson

D) Harry S. Truman

Answer · why

B) John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy: his new administration approved an invasion the CIA had planned since 1960, and Castro's troops defeated it within three days.

Q 02/05

From which region of Spain had Castro's father Ángel emigrated to Cuba?

A) Catalonia

B) The Basque Country

C) Galicia

D) Andalusia

Answer · why

C) Galicia

Galicia: Ángel Castro first came to Cuba as a Spanish army conscript fighting Cuban independence, went home with the defeated army in 1898, then retur...

Q 03/05

Which religious order ran the Dolores School and El Colegio de Belén, where Castro was educated?

A) The Franciscans

B) The Jesuits

C) The Dominicans

D) The Salesians

Answer · why

B) The Jesuits

The Jesuits: at Belén, their Havana school, Castro devoted much of his time to sport, starring at baseball, basketball and track.

Q 04/05

What did Castro study at the University of Havana from 1945?

A) Economics

B) Engineering

C) Medicine

D) Law

Answer · why

D) Law

Law: he later put that training to use by conducting his own defence at his 1953 trial.

Q 05/05

In 1947 Castro joined an invasion force assembled in Cuba to overthrow which dictator?

A) Juan Perón

B) François Duvalier

C) Anastasio Somoza

D) Rafael Trujillo

Answer · why

D) Rafael Trujillo

Rafael Trujillo: under US pressure, Cuba's own government arrested the force before it reached the Dominican Republic.