History
Which President founded the CIA in 1947?
President Harry S. Truman
The iconic movie series Spy Kids starred two kids who had to save their kidnapped parents. What are the names of the two characters (not actors)?
Juni and Carmen Cortez
Name the six branches of the US Military.
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines (under Dept. of Navy), Space Force (under Dept. of Air Force), and Coast Guard
Nuclear physicist and mastermind behind the Manhattan Project.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
ODNI
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Chinese military strategist and philosopher who lived in the 5th century BC. He is best known for his book “The Art of War”.
Sun Tzu
Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of this British mathematician who decrypted the German intelligence code during WWII.
Alan Turing
Which country has the largest military by personnel numbers?
China
Engineer Arthur Scherbius created this machine in 1918 which he sought to sell for commercial, rather than military, purposes. The machine played a pivotal role in encrypting messages in WWII.
Enigma
GEOINT
geospatial intelligence
The CIA was created as a successor to this intelligence agency which was created for the purpose of WWII operations.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Who originated the role of James Bond in 1962?
Sean Connery
Which branch of the U.S. military is not under the Department of Defense but rather the DHS?
Coast Guard
King of Macedonia who lived in the 4th century BC. He was known for his strategic brilliance and boldness on the battlefield, as well as his ruthless and power-hungry conquests. He died at age 32, leaving behind a legacy as one of history’s most successful and influential military leaders.
Alexander the Great
PLA
People’s Liberation Army – China
Created by Joseph Stalin in 1942, it was the Soviet military intelligence organization.
GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie)
This actor plays the main role in a four-movie series which originally began with a man with amnesia rescued from near death by the sea, who discovers that he’s at the center of a massive CIA conspiracy.
Matt Damon (Jason Bourne)
Not including Russia, which European nation has the strongest military?
England
This infamous British spy actively gave intelligence to the Soviet Union for more than 30 years, nearly rising to the top of MI6 before retiring to Moscow where he trained Soviet spies.
Kim Philby
INR
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department
Of the 45 U.S. presidents, how many have served in the military?
31
Ben Affleck plays the role of an exfiltration specialist who masquerades as a Hollywood producer in order to rescue six Americans who are held captive in Tehran during the US hostage crisis in Iran. What was the actual name of this CIA operative?
Tony Mendez
The largest U.S. military combatant command.
INDOPACOM (Indo-pacific Command)
Considered to be the most damaging spy in Bureau history, this FBI operative worked for the Soviet Union for 22 years, giving up many identities of Soviets and Russians spying for the US. He was arrested in 2001. His espionage was described by the Department of Justice as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history".
Robert Hanssen
CISA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency