Famous Dictators Quiz #1

Dictator of Germany, not necessarily born in Germany.

You just made my day, bro :)

I got Mobuto quickly. But I had the advantage of visiting Zaire whilst he was dictator there. The extent of his evil grip on power amazed me.

I sort of agree, in that if the question said Stalin, nobody would complain about calling him a dictator.

That's pretty bad not gonna lie.

For a 12 year old? I'd say it's pretty good actually.

The average score is 14 so yes, I would say that is good for a 12 yo. Definitely not bad. Most of the people on this site are older than that, and could have heard of several from the news. Only some are covered in history classes.

So anyone saying getting 11 is bad for a 12 yo, has got some issues. (inferiority or superiority.. always hard to tell..)

even it it was bad, no need to rub it in someone's face.

I doubt I would have done that well on a similar quiz when I was 12. Mubarak and Gaddafi would have still been in power but I doubt I could have named them.

He's in the next one

In modern English, "dictator" pretty much is a synonym of "authoritarian leader".

Now DR Congo ofc

Since when is Italy a country? 'Rome' or 'Roman Empire' are the most appropriate answers for Sulla.

Italy didn't exist as a country at the time. Sulla was the dictator of Rome. The quiz is correct.

Arguably, Rome has been a country longer than Italy has. You had the Roman Kingdom (752-509 BC), Roman Republic (509-27 BC), Roman Empire (27 BC - 285 AD), Western Roman Empire (285-476), and the Papal States (754-1870). The Kingdom of Italy incorporated Rome in 1871 and in 1946 became the Italian Republic. Rome was a country for either 2,344 years or 1,228 years if you don't want to count the Papal States as Rome. Italy has been a country for 160 years.

Russia and DRC work for the Soviet Union and Zaire, respectively.

Why would the quiz need to define "dictator"? It's a common word. I teach political studies, though, so I'll go over what I know. Dictatorships are typically ruled by a single authoritarian leader, but in some cases they can be oligarchical. Most dictatorships today control the political process and media to the point that there is no challenge to their power. Dictators today also often have a cult of personality. The term dictator has historically been used simply to mean a single person who has achieved power in non-democratic or monarchical ways (i.e., no vote and no longstanding tradition to explain their power). There can be bad dictators, despots, and good leaders, commonly called benevolent dictators. Lee Kuan Yew is probably the best example of a benevolent dictator. Also, keep in mind that there are different forms of dictatorship. Totalitarianism is an extreme type of dictatorship that more or less tries to control the lives and beliefs of its citizens.

Brezhnev is more fun to spell? Stalin appears in a lot of quizzes already so Quizmaster decided to spread the love around a little?

In that case Merkel would also be a fine addition.

Poe's law

He was installed democratically and can be removed democratically.