Che Guevara Trivia Questions

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

Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army in 1967. His death was a deliberate killing, not an accident.

Che Guevara was captured on October 8, 1967, in Bolivia and executed the next day. His death ended his campaign to spread revolution in South America.

Che Guevara was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. He was not Cuban by birth but became a key figure in the Cuban Revolution.

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

Che Guevara enrolled in medical school at the University of Buenos Aires in 1948 and graduated as a doctor in 1953. His medical background influenced his revolutionary ideals.

Che Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina, not Cuba. Many mistakenly assume he was Cuban because of his role in the Cuban Revolution.

Che Guevara studied medicine and became a doctor, not a lawyer. He never attended law school or practiced law.

Che Guevara never held the presidency. The first post-revolution president was Manuel Urrutia Lleó, briefly in 1959, then Osvaldo Dorticós.

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

After his execution in 1967, Che Guevara's body was secretly buried in an unmarked grave near Vallegrande, Bolivia. The remains were exhumed in 1997 and returned to Cuba, but the original interment was indeed secret and unmarked.

Che Guevara was president of the National Bank of Cuba (central bank) but never served as Minister of Finance; Che Guevara's ministerial post was Minister of Industries.

He oversaw executions as a revolutionary tribunal judge, but credible estimates place the number in the hundreds, not thousands, making the claim false.

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

After the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara held the post of Minister of Industries from 1961 to 1965, overseeing economic policy and industrialization efforts.

Mario Terán, a Bolivian army sergeant, shot Guevara on October 9, 1967, after his capture in Bolivia.