November 2026 edition

The Cold War quiz

Q14 / 50Easy15.0s
During the Cold War, which city was divided by a wall?
ABerlin
BVienna
CWarsaw
DPrague
104 pts+10

How much do you really know about the Cold War? Put it to the test with Zip Blitz, the quick-fire trivia game - fifty free questions, covering everything from the Space Race to proxy wars and spy swaps.

Cold War · November 2026 edition

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Q6 / 50Opener
Which country launched Sputnik, the first satellite?
AUnited States
BSoviet Union
CGermany
DChina

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Five rounds, climbing10 questions each
1OpenerSpace Race, Cuba and the Iron Curtain
2EasyNATO, Korea and the arms race
3TrickyMarshall Plan, Vietnam and the Hungarian uprising
4HardDétente, Solidarity and the Sino-Soviet split
5BrutalCominform, the Rapacki Plan and NSC 68
Cold War titlesout of 500
Wall comes down50 / 50
Secretary of State350+
Ambassador275+
Envoy200+
Attaché100+
Embassy intern1+
Stalemate0

44 of 50 right · six short of Wall comes down

You vs Katie BCold War · Easy
412 pts
78%
You
389 pts
72%
Katie
Who became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev✓GBKB
Boris Yeltsin

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Quick on the draw, comrade.

Twenty seconds a question, and the faster you answer, the more you score. Which country launched Sputnik, the first satellite?

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Tensions rise with every round.

Five rounds of ten. Each standoff gets trickier.

Titles

Rise through the embassy ranks.

When you finish, your score earns a title: Stalemate if you score nothing, Wall comes down if you get every question right.

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