Question 1

True or false: Che Guevara was born in Argentina, not Cuba.

Accepted Answer

True. Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928. He became a Cuban revolutionary after meeting Fidel Castro in Mexico.

Question 2

True or false: Che Guevara served as Cuba's Minister of Finance and ran the central bank.

Accepted Answer

True. He was appointed president of the National Bank of Cuba and later Minister of Industries, despite having no formal economics training.

Question 3

True or false: Che Guevara’s remains were secretly buried in an unmarked grave in Bolivia.

Accepted Answer

False. His body was secretly buried, but in 1997 his remains were exhumed and returned to Cuba for burial in Santa Clara.

Question 4

True or false: Che Guevara was a trained medical doctor who abandoned his practice to fight.

Accepted Answer

False. He did graduate from medical school, but he never practiced medicine; he became a revolutionary almost immediately after.

Question 5

True or false: Che Guevara fought alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution from the very first attack.

Accepted Answer

False. Guevara joined Castro’s movement in Mexico in 1955, after the failed Moncada Barracks attack in 1953.

Question 6

True or false: Che Guevara’s famous photo 'Guerrillero Heroico' was taken at a funeral.

Accepted Answer

True. Alberto Korda captured the image in 1960 at a memorial for victims of the La Coubre explosion, not during a battle.

Question 7

True or false: Che Guevara was executed by a CIA-trained Bolivian soldier named Mario Terán.

Accepted Answer

True. Terán, a Bolivian sergeant, shot Guevara on October 9, 1967, after a CIA agent ordered his death over capture.

Question 8

True or false: Che Guevara personally ordered the execution of thousands of political prisoners in Cuba.

Accepted Answer

False. While he oversaw executions as a revolutionary tribunal judge, the number is debated and far lower than the myth of 'thousands.'

Che Guevara Trivia Questions