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Worst Popes of All Time - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 459 times
- The average score is 5 of 10
Answer Stats
| Hint | Years in power | Answer | % Correct |
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| Aged only 18 when elected pope, he raped female pilgrims, consecrated a 10-year-old boy as bishop, invoked pagan gods, gave land to a mistress, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife. | 955-964 | John XII | 77%
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| Split the church's finances among his relatives | 985-966 | John XV | 77%
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| Took Italy by force, fathered at least seven, and possibly as many as ten illegitimate children, and threw large parties, bordering on orgies | 1492-1503 | Alexander VI | 64%
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| Sold indulgences to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and had cardinals assassinated | 1513-21 | Leo X | 60%
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| Gave up his papacy twice in exchange for a large sum of money | 1032-1044 and 1047-48 | Benedict IX | 59%
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| Approved the use of torture to extract confessions of heresy | 1243-54 | Innocent IV | 56%
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| Complained he not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured | 1378-89 | Urban VI | 54%
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| Also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked. | 1523-34 | Clement VII | 49%
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| Had his predecessor exhumed, tried, de-fingered, and thrown to the river | 896-897 | Stephen VI | 40%
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| Ordered the murder of another pope and the only known to have fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope | 897-911 | Sergius III | 14%
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