Espionage & Intelligence
Instructions: Delve into the shadowy world of spies, intelligence agencies, and covert operations throughout history
- 1.
The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was established in which year?
A1960B1947C1942D1952 - 2.
MI6, the foreign intelligence service of which country, is featured prominently in James Bond novels?
AUnited KingdomBGermanyCUnited StatesDFrance - 3.
The KGB was the main security and intelligence agency of which country?
ACubaBChinaCEast GermanyDSoviet Union - 4.
During World War II, the Enigma machine was a cipher device used by which country's military?
AGermanyBItalyCJapanDUnited States - 5.
Which British mathematician led the team at Bletchley Park that cracked the Enigma code?
ACharles BabbageBAlan TuringCStephen HawkingDIsaac Newton - 6.
The Mossad is the national intelligence agency of which country?
ATurkeyBEgyptCIsraelDSaudi Arabia - 7.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for passing secrets about what to the Soviet Union?
AJet engine designsBRadar systemsCNuclear weaponsDSubmarine technology - 8.
The Stasi was the feared secret police of which country during the Cold War?
AEast GermanyBSoviet UnionCCzechoslovakiaDRomania - 9.
Which famous Dutch exotic dancer was executed in 1917 as a spy during World War I?
AMata HariBVirginia HallCViolette SzaboDJosephine Baker - 10.
The U-2 incident of 1960 involved a spy plane from which country being shot down over the Soviet Union?
AUnited KingdomBFranceCWest GermanyDUnited States - 11.
The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) was the predecessor to which intelligence agency?
ACIABNSACDIADFBI - 12.
The Cambridge Five were a ring of spies who passed British secrets to which country?
AChinaBSoviet UnionCGermanyDJapan - 13.
Which organization was revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 to be conducting mass surveillance programs?
ANSABFBICCIADDHS - 14.
During the American Revolution, Nathan Hale is remembered for which famous last words before being executed as a spy?
AThese are the times that try men's soulsBI only regret that I have but one life to lose for my countryCGive me liberty or give me deathDDon't fire until you see the whites of their eyes - 15.
Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. program to recruit scientists from which country after World War II?
AJapanBItalyCGermanyDSoviet Union