Gang of Four Trivia Questions

They were sentenced to prison terms, not executed. Jiang Qing received a death sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and she later died in 1991.

The Gang of Four consisted of Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, all powerful figures during the Cultural Revolution.

Deng Xiaoping was purged during the Cultural Revolution and later led the campaign against the Gang of Four, playing a key role in their arrest.

They were arrested on October 6, 1976, only 27 days after Mao died on September 9, 1976, in a swift coup led by Hua Guofeng.

The term 'Cultural Revolution' was officially launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, years before the Gang of Four rose to prominence as his allies.

Their arrest in October 1976 was a top-down coup by Hua Guofeng, not a popular uprising. The Tiananmen protests of April 1976 were against them but did not overthrow them.

Wang Hongwen, the youngest member, was born in 1935. He was 40 years old when the Gang of Four was arrested in October 1976, placing him in his 40s.

Jiang Qing, a member of the Gang of Four, was an actress in Shanghai before marrying Mao Zedong and becoming a political figure.