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Exploring Cuba: Culture, History, and Television

This quiz explores various aspects of Cuba, including its culture, history, government, and notable television representations.

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1 What role did María Elena Jiménez play in the TV series Cuba?

2 Its people, culture, and customs draw from diverse sources, including the aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples; the period of Spanish colonialism; the introduction of African slaves; and its proximity to the ________.

3 What role did Danny De La Paz play in the TV series Cuba?

4 What type of government does Cuba have?

5 What is the leader of Cuba called?

6 Which of the following lead to the establishment of Cuba?

7 Who played Therese Mederos in the TV series Cuba?

8 What role did Manuel Cortez play in the TV series Cuba?

9 The most important mineral resource is ________, of which Cuba has the world's second largest reserves after Russia.

10 Who played Maj. Robert Dapes in the TV series Cuba?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1998, English writer Joyce Dunbar cycled across Cuba to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, on behalf of a people with hearing impairment.
  • in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired.
  • in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba.
  • in 1901, two former political adversaries in Cuba, the Cuban National Party and the Republican Party of Havana, united behind the presidential candidature of Tomás Estrada Palma.
  • due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba.
  • after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships.
  • as part of Cuba-Venezuela relations, 50,000 Venezuelans went to Cuba for free eye treatment.
  • competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial (pictured) in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition.
  • in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba.
  • photographer Burt Glinn was at a New Year's Party when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, and he arrived at the scene before dawn.
  • the Tugboat Spence and its barge Guantanamo Bay Express deliver cargo twice-monthly from Naval Station Mayport near Jacksonville, Florida to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
  • the motif of "La Paloma," written by Sebastián Iradier in Cuba around 1863, can be traced back to an episode during the Greco-Persian Wars in 492 BCE.
  • visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl.
  • the Ten Years' War, which began in 1868, was the first attempt by Cuba to secure its independence from Spain.
  • the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (pictured), built to defend the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba from pirate attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by pirates while it was being constructed.
  • the Cuban People's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours.
  • the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba, with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg).
  • the Afro hairstyle (pictured) was once banned in Tanzania and Cuba.
  • after a recent re-analysis, a hurricane in 1924 was found to be the earliest known Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, as well as the strongest hurricane on record to strike Cuba.
  • Raul Macias, a Cuban-Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas.
  • Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina was dubbed the "Godfather of Cuban tobacco".
  • Cuban poet Cintio Vitier published his first book of poetry in 1938, at the age of seventeen.
  • Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
  • Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida.
  • Cuban economist Felipe Pazos was ordered to be executed by Raúl Castro in 1959, but was ultimately spared and allowed to leave the country.
  • Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton said the Brampton Jail in Brampton, Ontario was "worse than any jail in Cuba".
  • Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez.
  • Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico.
  • Hurricane Michelle (pictured), a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
  • Iran and Cuba have been seeking to strengthen their relationship in recent years.
  • Enriqueta Favez (pictured), a Swiss woman, studied medicine and served as an army surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars disguised as a man, went to Cuba in the 1820s and married a local woman.
  • Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae), a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world.
  • Paul Boucherot and his partner Georges Claude built an ocean thermal energy conversion plant in Cuba as long ago as 1926.
  • Cuba-Pakistan relations were strengthened due to Cuba's assistance after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.
  • Bill Paparian, who visited Cuba while mayor of Pasadena, California, was reported to admire both Che Guevara and the U.S. Marine Corps.
  • John Singleton Copley's painting, Watson and the Shark (pictured), was based on a real-life shark attack that occured in Havana, Cuba in 1749.
  • national service in Cuba's law enforcement agencies is regarded as more dangerous than serving in the country's armed forces.
  • anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement.
  • 85 percent of the tobacco grown in Cuba is produced by members of the National Association of Small Farmers.
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