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Quiz about Tyrants Dictators and Despots
Quiz about Tyrants Dictators and Despots

Tyrants, Dictators and Despots Quiz


The world has seen many tyrants, dictators and other people who have used their position to kill and hurt thousands or millions. The ones I have chosen have been among the worst but are also known by most people.

A multiple-choice quiz by Babilonia. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Babilonia
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
361,802
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
1405
Last 3 plays: Guest 65 (7/10), Guest 2 (10/10), Guest 86 (9/10).
Question 1 of 10
1. He was born in Palestine in 73 B.C. but became a Roman citizen after his father helped the Romans in a civil war. The Bible tells us that he ordered the massacre of all male babies in Bethlehem because it was predicted that one of them would be the "King of the Jews". Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. This Roman Emperor started his reign as a popular Emperor but soonafter, he showed his cruelty by killing his own legion gathering the soldiers without their weapons and having them murdered. He killed friends and helpers in the presence of their parents or children, invented "treason trials" so he could confiscate the possessions of the people on trial, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and killed his brother. He allegedly made his horse Roman consul. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. This ambitious and cruel king of the Huns, known as the "scourge of God" inherited a huge empire with his brother, but wanted more and fought for control of the Balkans, Constantinople, Persia and also Western Europe, invading Gaul and Italy. He murdered his brother and in the course of his trail through Europe, ransacked towns, violated women, made slaves of those he did not kill and returned home with his booty. He is said to have died while sleeping, drowning in his own blood. Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. This Count of Wallachia was responsible for the death of over 50,000 people. He was raised in Turkey as the prisoner of the Turkish sultan who had taken him and his brother hostage to guarantee that the boys' father would not attack the Turks. Eventually, upon his father's death, he was allowed to return and rule over his territory in Wallachia where he took revenge of his father's enemies by impaling them, his favorite method of killing.
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. This Russian Tsar came to the throne when he was 17 years old. When his father died he was only three years old and was neglected by relatives and saw murder and treason among the people surrounding him. He became very disturbed, enjoying rape and murder. After he married Anastasia, a Romanov princess, he changed and became a good ruler. Unfortunately, after his wife died in childbirth, he went back to his old ways. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This king was handsome, educated, fond of hunting and gifted in many ways but eventually, he became a tyrant who killed even his own friends, among them his childhood friend, Sir Thomas More. He married six times and had two of his wives decapitated. He broke away from Roman Catholicism and made himself Head of the Church of England. He left a son who died at a young age and two daughters, who both became queens. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. This ruler was born Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashhvili. He joined the Bolshevik faction in 1903 and even robbed banks to obtain money for the party. He was exiled to Siberia in 1913 right after he changed his name. He came back to Russia in 1917 and played a key role as a member of the Communist Party. In 1924, he became the ruler of Russia. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Hitler was responsible for the murder of six million Jews and millions of others, making him one of the very worst tyrants in history. He wanted to purge the world of Jews and to create a race that would control the world, the Aryan race. In 1924 he had been imprisoned for treason with a sentence of five years although he only served nine months. During his time in Landsberg Prison, he wrote a book explaining his ideas on racial purity and other philosophical themes. What was the book's name? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq since 1968, becoming president in 1979 until 2003. He murdered hundreds of rivals in his ascent to the presidency and later, through very strong repression, was able to eliminate all his enemies. He invaded Iran, gassed the Kurds, invaded Kuwait, drained the homeland of Marsh Arabs and killed and tortured thousand of people. In what place was he born?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Who is the Latin America dictator came to power in 1959? He is responsible for the death of thousands of people and for the massive exodus of his citizens into neighboring countries. He has turned his homeland, which was quite advanced in comparison to other countries in Latin America, into a poor country where there is a lack of everything and where tourists are kept from talking to the natives and don't see the misery these are suffering. Hint



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1. He was born in Palestine in 73 B.C. but became a Roman citizen after his father helped the Romans in a civil war. The Bible tells us that he ordered the massacre of all male babies in Bethlehem because it was predicted that one of them would be the "King of the Jews".

Answer: Herod the Great

Herod the Great had his own son, his second wife, her two sons and all her family killed. Emperor Augustus said that it was better to be Herod's pig than his own son.
2. This Roman Emperor started his reign as a popular Emperor but soonafter, he showed his cruelty by killing his own legion gathering the soldiers without their weapons and having them murdered. He killed friends and helpers in the presence of their parents or children, invented "treason trials" so he could confiscate the possessions of the people on trial, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and killed his brother. He allegedly made his horse Roman consul.

Answer: Emperor Caligula

Emperor Caligula ordered decapitations as entertainment during his dinners and other feasts, and sometimes a guest would be the victim. The people of Rome feared him very much and the Praetorian guard eventually killed him. He was emperor for only four years.
3. This ambitious and cruel king of the Huns, known as the "scourge of God" inherited a huge empire with his brother, but wanted more and fought for control of the Balkans, Constantinople, Persia and also Western Europe, invading Gaul and Italy. He murdered his brother and in the course of his trail through Europe, ransacked towns, violated women, made slaves of those he did not kill and returned home with his booty. He is said to have died while sleeping, drowning in his own blood.

Answer: Attila

Little is known about Attila's early life but it is known that Attila, in his way back to his land, he married a young woman named Ildico and died on his wedding night, after drinking excessively, never woke up and was found dead after suffering a hemorrhage of the nose.
4. This Count of Wallachia was responsible for the death of over 50,000 people. He was raised in Turkey as the prisoner of the Turkish sultan who had taken him and his brother hostage to guarantee that the boys' father would not attack the Turks. Eventually, upon his father's death, he was allowed to return and rule over his territory in Wallachia where he took revenge of his father's enemies by impaling them, his favorite method of killing.

Answer: Vlad Tepes

Vlad Tepes' father was decorated with the "Order of the Dragon". In Wallachian, dragon translates dracul, so Vlad, son of Dracul became 'Dracul'a. His life served as inspiration for the character Dracula, the vampire of Transylvania. It is said that Vlad wanted to get rid of all homeless, sick and poor people in his land, so he invited them to a feast and after they ate, he asked the poor if they wanted to be free of problems and when they agreed, he burned the dinner hall killing everyone.
5. This Russian Tsar came to the throne when he was 17 years old. When his father died he was only three years old and was neglected by relatives and saw murder and treason among the people surrounding him. He became very disturbed, enjoying rape and murder. After he married Anastasia, a Romanov princess, he changed and became a good ruler. Unfortunately, after his wife died in childbirth, he went back to his old ways.

Answer: Ivan the Terrible

Ivan the Terrible ransacked and burned the city of Novgorod and impaled, boiled or roasted around 60,000 of his people. He married eight(!) times and eliminated his wives when tired of them by sending the lucky ones to a convent and killing the others. He even killed his 19 year old son by hitting his head with a metal staff during a heated argument. He died in 1584.
6. This king was handsome, educated, fond of hunting and gifted in many ways but eventually, he became a tyrant who killed even his own friends, among them his childhood friend, Sir Thomas More. He married six times and had two of his wives decapitated. He broke away from Roman Catholicism and made himself Head of the Church of England. He left a son who died at a young age and two daughters, who both became queens.

Answer: Henry VIII

After Henry became the head of the Church of England, he started persecuting all those who would not recognize his new position. He dissolved convents and monasteries and took their land as well as their gold and art treasures, as he wanted the money. Uprisings against him in Lincolnshire and the north of England were brutally suppressed.
7. This ruler was born Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashhvili. He joined the Bolshevik faction in 1903 and even robbed banks to obtain money for the party. He was exiled to Siberia in 1913 right after he changed his name. He came back to Russia in 1917 and played a key role as a member of the Communist Party. In 1924, he became the ruler of Russia.

Answer: Josef Stalin

From the mid 1930s on Stalin "purged" the government, the army and the Communist Party by frequently declaring to have discovered a plot against the country. Then he would have all those involved executed. The more important of the accused were given "show trials", where they were only allowed to confess and not to defend themselves.

When the Second World War started, Stalin did not have armed forces strong enough to fight Hitler's invasion but he sent masses of untrained soldiers who died in the front and eventually they were able to contain the attacks.

After the war, Stalin took advantage of all those countries the Soviet Union had "liberated" and imposed Communism on all them, adding them to the Soviet Union's empire.
8. Hitler was responsible for the murder of six million Jews and millions of others, making him one of the very worst tyrants in history. He wanted to purge the world of Jews and to create a race that would control the world, the Aryan race. In 1924 he had been imprisoned for treason with a sentence of five years although he only served nine months. During his time in Landsberg Prison, he wrote a book explaining his ideas on racial purity and other philosophical themes. What was the book's name?

Answer: Mein Kampf

"Mein Kampf" ("My Strugle") was written in 1924. Hitler outlines his opposition to Communists, Jews and Liberals, explains the reasons behind the need for racial purity and predicts that Germany will rule the world, expanding its borders far into other Eastern European countries.
9. Saddam Hussein controlled Iraq since 1968, becoming president in 1979 until 2003. He murdered hundreds of rivals in his ascent to the presidency and later, through very strong repression, was able to eliminate all his enemies. He invaded Iran, gassed the Kurds, invaded Kuwait, drained the homeland of Marsh Arabs and killed and tortured thousand of people. In what place was he born?

Answer: Al Awja

Al Awja is a village located just outside Tikrit, which is around 100 miles from Baghdad.
10. Who is the Latin America dictator came to power in 1959? He is responsible for the death of thousands of people and for the massive exodus of his citizens into neighboring countries. He has turned his homeland, which was quite advanced in comparison to other countries in Latin America, into a poor country where there is a lack of everything and where tourists are kept from talking to the natives and don't see the misery these are suffering.

Answer: Fidel Castro

Although not hvisibly "in charge" Fidel Castro is using his brother Raul, who does not have Fidel's talents, to be apparently in control of the government. Fidel in unable to speak clearly and he does not do so in publc, so he is using his brother, but this one is only acting under Fidel' orders. Castro and other members of Cuba's Communist government live in luxury while the rest of the people cannot even buy elementary products like medications, meat, vegetables, oil, toilet paper and other necessities.
Source: Author Babilonia

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