Spanish Civil War quiz
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What city planned a People's Olympiad for July 1936?
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Which British novelist was wounded by a sniper in Spain?
Answer: George Orwell
Why: He fought in the militia of the small POUM party, not in the International Brigades.
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Which river did the Republic's army cross in July 1938?
Answer: Ebro
Why: Fought from July to November 1938, it became the largest battle of the Spanish Civil War.
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What fortress did Franco's army rescue from a siege in 1936?
Answer: Alcázar of Toledo
Why: Many of Franco's advisers thought he should have kept advancing on Madrid instead.
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Which Latin American country took in the most Republican exiles?
Answer: Mexico
Why: Mexico funded La Casa de España for exiled scholars, the institute that became El Colegio de México.
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Where did Picasso's Guernica hang until 1981?
Answer: New York
Why: Picasso wanted it kept out of Spain until liberty and democracy returned there.
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Which movement did Spain's first woman minister come from?
Answer: anarchism
Why: She was one of four anarchists who joined the Republic's cabinet in November 1936.
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