Revolutions of 1989 by JCEurovision

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Quiz Description

Answer these questions on the people, places, things, and events about the defining moments that ended Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Questions:

The Revolutions of 1989 is sometimes called what three-word phrase, a play on the term used to describe the Revolutions of 1848?

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Autumn of Nations

The events of the full-blown revolution began in what country, when a wave of strikes hit there on April and May 1988?

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Poland

What event began on February 6, 1989 at 2:23 pm CET, which included Lech Wałęsa and Minister of Internal Affairs Czesław Kiszczak?

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Round Table Agreement

Lech Wałęsa went on to win the presidential election against the Independent candidate Stanisław Tymiński. Within 7 days high or low, when did the second round held?

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December 9, 1990

On November 17, 1989, the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka and symbol of Communist oppression, was torn down in Bank Square, Warsaw. What is the Cheka?

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Soviet secret police

On May 2, 1989, the first visible cracks in the Iron Curtain appeared when Hungary began dismantling its long border fence with Austria. Within 10 miles high or low, how long was the border fence?

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150 miles

On June 1, 1989, the Communist Party admitted that what former Hungarian Prime Minister was executed illegally after a show trial, a key figure in the 1956 uprising?

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Imre Nagy

Triggered by the erratic words of regime spokesman Günter Schabowski in a TV press conference, stating that the planned changes were in effect "immediately, without delay," this ultimately lead to what iconic event?

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

What key figure became Prime Minister of East Germany on April 4, 1990 on a platform of speedy reunification with the West?

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Lothar de Maizière

If the answer to Question 9 was the last leader of East Germany, then what other key figure, who died in 2017, became the last leader of West Germany?

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Helmut Kohl

The Velvet Revolution happened in Czechoslovakia from November 17 to December 29, 1989. If this name referred to the Czech part, what other name referred to the Slovak part?

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Gentle Revolution

Two key figures emerged in Czechoslovakia on the closing days of 1989. Václav Havel became President of Czechoslovakia on December 29. Who was the other, as speaker of the federal parliament on the day before?

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Alexander Dubček

What place, named after its national patron saint, became the setting for a five-day protest against the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia?

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Wenceslas Square

On November 10, 1989, its long-serving leader, Todor Zhivkov, was ousted by what country's Politburo?

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Bulgaria

On December 16, 1989, what Romanian city, with a Hungarian minority, held a public protest in response to an attempt by the government to evict Hungarian Reformed Church Pastor László Tőkés?

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Timișoara

The slogans, "Jos dictatorul!", "Moarte criminalului!", and "Noi suntem poporul, jos cu dictatorul!", are all referred against whom, the only one that was executed after its violent overthrow?

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Nicolae Ceaușescu