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Final/bonus point about students' cultural literacy. I did not expect them to know "Battleship Potemkin" and the like: it's my job to introduce them to it.

But I thought I'd try something more recent, if still before when they were born:

Mikhail Gorbachev, (a) a major historical figure (b) who died only last August (so that should in some sense mitigate the before-you-were-born factor)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/world/europe/mikhail-gorbachev-dead.html

Nothing. A few had heard the name, none could attach anything specific to it

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