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The Dictator Files: Benito Mussolini

Can you guess these factos about the infamous Italian dictator?
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Political party that he led
Fascist
Title, meaning "leader", that was applied to Mussolini by that party
Duce
Nickname of the paramilitary wing of that party
The Blackshirts
Mexican leader who Mussolini was named after
Benito Juarez
Party he expelled from in 1914
Italian Socialist Party
War he fought in as a soldier
World War I
Demonstration which led to Mussolini being named Prime Minister
March on Rome
African country that Italy "pacified" between 1923–1932?
Libya
Country with which Italy signed the Lateran Treaty in 1929
Vatican City
African country Italy invaded in 1935
Ethiopia
Four-letter term that Mussolini coined in 1936 after an agreement
between Italy and Germany
Axis
Future world leader who once said "Unfortunately, I am no superman like Mussolini"
Mahatma Gandhi
Alliance that Italy formed with Germany in 1939
Pact of Steel
King of Italy during Mussolini's dictatorial reign
Victor Emmanuel III
Method of execution used on Mussolini and his mistress in 1945
Firing squad
He was executed near this lake in northern Italy
Lake Como
Complete this popular cliché: "Say what you like about Mussolini,
he made the trains ___ __ _____"
Run on time
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44 Comments
Nathaniel
+7
Level 75
Nov 1, 2020
please accept "Il Duce" because that is what they actually called him.
Aaron197
+4
Level 75
Nov 1, 2020
Accepted.
Nathaniel
+12
Level 75
Nov 1, 2020
Ghandi was never a world leader. He was an influencial person in Indian and Pakistani indpendence, but he never ruled either.
pctjunkie
+22
Level 90
Nov 24, 2020
A leader doesn't have to be an elected or appointed official that is in charge of a country. Anyone who garners influence and gains a following can be considered a leader. Gandhi works.
MarcellDAvis
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Level 78
Apr 28, 2025
Gandhi was certainly an important leader within his country and an important figure in world history, but I think the term world leader usually implies the head of state or head of government of a major power, which he never was.
KingEureka
+5
Level 62
Dec 27, 2020
Why do people misspell Gandhi as Ghandi so often?
flzubuduuz
+21
Level 68
Dec 27, 2020
Because the H doesn't serve any phonetic purpose (at least with how it's pronounced in English) but people know it has an H, so they associate it with words like "ghost" and put the H after the G. There are no words (that I can think of) with the H after a D, except for Indian words like "dhoti" which are not that well known.
KingEureka
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Level 62
Dec 27, 2020
Good Explanation, thanks. I saw Gandhi being misspelt all over the internet and couldn't figure out why.
Xtrordinary
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Level 70
Jan 1, 2025
Adhere has a dh, although both make sounds and are in different syllables.
MarcellDAvis
+1
Level 78
Apr 28, 2025
Interesting. I thought of Bodhi and Dharma, both of which are of Indian origin.
Nebuer
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Level 35
Apr 29, 2025
I'm not Indian but I believe speakers of Indian English would make a phonetic distinction between 'Gandhi' and 'Ghandi'. The H indicates aspiration of the preceding consonant, an audible puff of air on release. I agree with your explanation otherwise and would be tempted to misspell it myself for the reason you gave.
Nathaniel
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Level 75
Nov 1, 2020
Appart from these little things, GREAT QUIZ!
Nathaniel
+1
Level 75
Nov 1, 2020
NOMINATED!!!
Froststar101
+7
Level 73
Nov 11, 2020
Definitely should not accept just "Victor", his name is "Victor Emmanuel", and the answer should arguably require the "III" as well.
Froststar101
+1
Level 73
Feb 3, 2021
Somehow this quiz got reset and I still think this is an issue. It's the same as Juan Carlos of Spain.
JackBeNimble
+5
Level 82
Nov 24, 2020
I enjoyed that! Would you consider accepting Abyssinia, though?
cpgatbyu
+2
Level 86
Nov 24, 2020
Can you coin a term that's been in wide use for centuries?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Nov 24, 2020
He certainly gave the word a new meaning.
Corrode
+1
Level 60
Dec 27, 2020
"To coin a phrase" can mean to invent something new but is often more widely used ironically to mean "to say something very commonplace"
stefb72
+2
Level 84
Nov 24, 2020
Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, not 37.

good quiz, btw!

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Nov 24, 2020
Fixed
stefb72
+6
Level 84
Nov 24, 2020
and, would you accept "shooting" for "firing squad"?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Nov 24, 2020
Okay
PolPetrol
+1
Level 58
Apr 29, 2025
or "shot"
boiadellago
+1
Level 76
Nov 24, 2020
Italy invaded and conquered Ethiopia in 1935-1936.
Ears
+15
Level 91
Nov 24, 2020
Given that he was Italian, please accept Vittorio Emmanuele as well as Victor
JonOfKent
+5
Level 58
Dec 3, 2020
Seconded. For what it's worth, when I was at school we were actually taught that that was his name, rather than Victor Emmanuel
dsaved
+2
Level 69
Dec 29, 2020
I was writing the same thing
JohnnyYeet
+2
Level 61
Dec 3, 2020
Nice quiz! Try my Vladimir Lenin one at

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1277141/the-dictator-files-vladimir-lenin

kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Dec 27, 2020
I tried Cuomo for Como... I'll blame the governor of New York for being on the news so much.
loganite
+1
Level 91
Dec 27, 2020
I tried that too, but I can't blame Andrew. It seems like I've seen the lake (or maybe some other lake?) spelled that way before...
JWatson24
+13
Level 71
Dec 27, 2020
Is it accurate to call Gandhi a "future" world leader? The peak of his influence chronologically coincides with much of Mussolini's regime... and he only survived a few years longer than Mussolini. Wouldn't "contemporary" be more accurate?
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Dec 27, 2020
Nice quiz! Also, for anyone who enjoys these, please check out my Dictator Files quiz as well!
nigelgillen
+4
Level 43
Jan 4, 2022
I believe "Vittorio Emanuele III" should also be accepted along with its English translation.
AbiA
+1
Level 86
Mar 7, 2022
I tried shot and gun without success. Insufficiently precise unfortunately.
Jabroni
+1
Level 72
Nov 20, 2022
Couldn’t ‘socialist’ be accepted?
Andreick2000
+5
Level 63
Mar 18, 2023
Great quiz! Can you also accept "Vittorio Emanuele" (Italian name) for king Victor Emmanuel III?
lexxie
+2
Level 79
Dec 17, 2023
+1
candelabre
+1
Level 55
May 13, 2024
Great quiz ! 🙃
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 73
Jun 26, 2024
Lmao I tried 10 different iterations of "run on time" before I finally got it
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 75
Apr 28, 2025
My father collected autographs in the 1920s, when all you needed to do was write famous people to ask for one, enclosing a SASE. He got Mussolini's, Edison's, Toscanini's and others' that way.

Mussolini's signature was a series of violent vertical strokes. I'll give you one guess which current political figure's signature resembles Mussolini's.

As an aside, the trains did not run on time any more often under Mussolini.

RobsPubQuiz
+1
Level 52
Apr 28, 2025
Great quiz, but Gandhi was not a world leader in the proper political sense, so that question is a wee bit misleading.
OvenBobat
+2
Level 59
Apr 28, 2025
*Party he was expelled from
Mikipedia
+1
Level 76
Apr 30, 2025
Answering to the popular cliché: "Say what you like about Mussolini, he made the trains run on time" Massimo Troisi, a late Italian actor, said: "Wasn't it enough to make him a stationmaster?"
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