Q 01/05

Where is the CIA headquartered?

A) Washington D.C.

B) Quantico, Virginia

C) Langley, Virginia

D) Fort Meade, Maryland

Answer · why

C) Langley, Virginia

Langley, Virginia: the CIA has worked from the wooded campus since 1961, and in 1999 it was renamed the George Bush Center for Intelligence after the ...

Q 02/05

Since 1994, which building at Albert Embankment in London has housed the UK's foreign spy service?

A) Thames House

B) Vauxhall Cross

C) Century House

D) Broadway Buildings

Answer · why

B) Vauxhall Cross

Vauxhall Cross: in September 2000 a rocket blamed on dissident Irish republicans struck the riverside building, but the foreign secretary said it had ...

Q 03/05

Israeli agents spent years hunting the militants behind the massacre of Israel's athletes at which Olympic Games?

A) Rome

B) Munich

C) Montreal

D) Mexico City

Answer · why

B) Munich

Munich: Black September gunmen killed eleven members of Israel's team at the 1972 Games, and the hunt for the plotters was suspended in 1973 after the...

Q 04/05

Inter-Services Intelligence, the military spy agency better known as the ISI, belongs to which country?

A) Iran

B) Pakistan

C) Saudi Arabia

D) Egypt

Answer · why

B) Pakistan

Pakistan: after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 the ISI teamed up with the CIA to arm and train the mujahideen, and in the 1990s it backed ...

Q 05/05

Which longtime KGB chairman went on to lead the Soviet Union in 1982?

A) Leonid Brezhnev

B) Yuri Andropov

C) Konstantin Chernenko

D) Nikita Khrushchev

Answer · why

B) Yuri Andropov

Yuri Andropov: he ran the KGB for fifteen years from 1967, a tenure known for its crackdown on dissidents, then succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet le...