February 18, 2008
President's Day Quiz
I came up with some questions about United States Presidents and presidential candidates as they relate to Cuba. See what you know (or don't).
The Mariel Boat lift took place during this President's administration.
This U.S. President requested authorization from the U.S. Congress to intervene in Cuba during the Spanish-American war.
The first president who tried to normalize relations with castro's Cuba but stopped when castro sent troops to Angola.
This administration banned travel by Cuban officials to United States.
United States began broadcasting to Cuba over Radio Marti under this president.
This president lifted the ban on travel to Cuba.
When castro came to Washington in 1959, this then vice president had to meet with him when the president refused to.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was PLANNED under this president's administration but carried out by the next administration.
When this president was in office, Congress tightened sanctions and prohibited foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies from trading with Cuba, travel to Cuba by U.S. citizens and family remittances to Cuba.
This former 2008 Presidential candidate barred castro from attending the 50th anniversary of the United Nations and special events related to it.
Under this president, 6 year old refugee Elian Gonzalez was forcibly removed from his relatives' home in Miami on Easter Sunday to be returned to his father in Cuba.
The Helms-Burton act was passed during this president's administration.
Addressing members of the Cuban Invasion Brigade from the Bay of Pigs invasion and thousands of Cuban exiles at the Orange Bowl, this president, upon receiving the brigade's flag, told the exiles: "I can assure you that this flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana."
Cuban political prisoner, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, was awarded the presidential medal of freedom by this president. The award was accepted by his family since Dr. Biscet is still in jail.
This 2008 presidential candidate was called a liar by castro for stating that POWs in Hanoi were tortured by Cubans in Vietnam.
One of the volunteers in this 2008 presidential candidate's campaign displayed a giant Cuban flag with che guevara's face on it at a local campaign headquarters in Texas.
The Cuban Adjustment Act was passed under this president.
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Cross posted at Claudia4Libertad
Posted by Claudia4Libertad at February 18, 2008 03:49 PM
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17 for 17. I'm such a nerd. Very good quiz.
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at February 18, 2008 06:57 PM
No you're not, you're a good student of history!
Posted by: Claudia4Libertad at February 18, 2008 07:20 PM
Claudia,
very original and instructive post! I missed 3 of them though . . .
Posted by: Ms. Calabaza at February 18, 2008 07:37 PM
Excellent, Claudia. Here are a few tougher quiz questions:
The first U.S. president who visited Cuba in an official function (Calvin Coolidge).
The first U.S. president to receive in Washington a visiting Cuban president (Franklin Roosevelt).
The first U.S. president who received Cuban visitors in the White House (James K. Polk).
The first U.S. president who sought military advise from a Cuban officer in the U.S. Army (Abraham Lincoln).
The U.S. Vice-President who was formally sworn into office while being in Havana, Cuba, instead of Washington, D.C. (William Rufus King).
Jefferson Davis, Confederate president, afterward vacationed in Cuba in 1868.
Posted by: delacova at February 18, 2008 10:37 PM
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