No Prayer for the Dead Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hungary

The suppression of the revolution was bloody. More than 3,000 Hungarian civilians were killed by the Soviet invaders and more than 13,000 were wounded, with more than 2,500 military deaths reported. The Soviets lost just over 700 killed and just under 1,300 wounded. After the fall of Communism, Hungary decided to commemorate October 23 as a national holiday.

Answer: Egypt

The incident mentioned in the question was the Suez Crisis. Israel's invasion of the Egyptian Sinai, which Israel wanted to occupy, as well as Britain's and France's desire to regain control over the Suez Canal are held to be responsible for the incident.

It is said by some that, after the Suez Crisis, Britain eventually ceased to be a world power, while others would place the start of Britain's decline as a world power from an earlier date, usually 1945.

Answer: Alexander Dubcek

Dubcek's reforms are known as the "Prague Spring". The Soviet leader Brezhnev feared that the events in Czechoslovakia might influence the status quo of Poland or East Germany, whilst nationalism had awakened in what know are the Baltic Republics. It is estimated that, during the Soviet invasion, more than 100 Czechs and Slovaks were killed and more than 500 wounded.

Answer: Mujahideen

After ten years of warfare, the Soviets abandoned Afghanistan. The land of Afghanistan was devastated, with more than 1 million Afghans killed or executed and more than two million Afghans seeking refuge in neighboring countries. More than 75,000 Mujahideen were killed, with a similar number of wounded.

The Soviet casualties were also high, but the most compelling reason for them to leave Afghanistan were the new policies adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Answer: Aksai Chin

Not only were the Indian troops numerically inferior to the Chinese, they also suffered more casualties in the war. Just over 8,000 Indians out of 10,000-12,000 became casualties, a percentage rate of around 80, in contrast to just under 2,500 Chinese out of 80,000.

Answer: Konrad Adenauer

The Wall remained in place till the early 1990s, but following huge demonstrations by East Germans it was opened up on 9 November 1989, when spontaneous demolition began. US Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave speeches in Berlin, near the location of the Wall. Several quotes are associated with it, such as "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Answer: Gerald Ford

The world was bitterly split when it came to taking sides over the situation in Vietnam. Most Americans viewed their intervention as an effort to prevent the fall of Vietnam to Communism, whilst pacifists declared that the Americans had no authority to intervene in a country so far from their own. The cost of the war was very cruel to Vietnam, as well as the neighboring countries.

Answer: The 38th parallel

The North Korean invasion was repelled by the South Koreans, and the United Nations counterattacked, penetrating into North Korea before being stopped. Afterwards, South Korea was again invaded by its northern neighbor, with the war becoming gradually one of attrition. An armistice was signed in mid-1953, but no treaty officially terminated the war.

Answer: Italy

After the Crisis, a direct telephone hotline between the US and the USSR was established. The United States continued their embargo on Cuba, but agreed with the Soviet Union not to invade Cuba, unless they were provoked into doing so.

Answer: Wojciech Jaruzelski

Popieluszko was beaten to death by a group of Security Police officers and his lifeless body was thrown into the Vistula Water Reservoir. The priest's murder caused turmoil in Poland and the Communist regime was soon terminated. Jerzy Popieluszko has been recognized to be a martyr for the Christian faith and the Roman Catholic Church, being beatified in 2010.