Every day in "Historically yours", the presenter Stéphane Bern and the historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach compete in a historical and unusual quiz.

Would you be able to face them?

To find out, we have concocted thematic quizzes based on the questions asked every day to our two specialists.

The war in history in ten questions.

Questionable military strategies, battles with strange names ... Answer the questions that made our presenter Stéphane Bern and our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach question and laugh in the sequence "Bern to be alive", every day in 

Historically yours

, between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Europe 1.

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Can you do as well as them? 

  • Philippe Padbol died on April 6, 1945, a few months before Germany surrendered during World War II.

    His name, necessarily a little humorous, has passed to posterity because he was one of the last 100 soldiers who died for France.

    True or false ?

  •  If I tell you Verdun, you think of the murderous battle of the First World War.

    But Verdun, historically, is also:

  • The Hiroshima Bomb was the deadliest bomb in human history.

    But the Tsar bomba that the USSR detonated in 1961 in the Arctic Ocean was the most powerful: it was 300 times the power of Hiroshima.

    True or false ?

  • Chantal Goya's real last name is Bataille.

    True or false ?

  • During World War II, the Ile d'Oléron was freed from the yoke of Nazi Germany after Berlin.

    True or false ?

  • To designate a bullet fired by a firearm, we sometimes speak of "bastos".

    This expression comes from "bastard" ("bastard"), because in the south of France people insulted each other at the same time as they shot each other.

    True or false ?

  • Sometimes military operations have strange names.

    In 1979, helicopters and planes were used by the French army to cause the fall of Bokassa in the Central African Republic.

    The operation is called "Veil sur les filles".

    True or false ?

  • In the 19th century, in France, military service was done under a rank that was drawn by lot.

    We could be simple troufion or aspirant depending on how lucky we were or not.

    True or false ?

  •  Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lébron was President of Mexico in 1833. He was nicknamed "the Napoleon of the West", but he also had another nickname.

    Which ?

  •  It's not funny, but it's always good to remember the horror and silliness of war.

    In 14-18, which army had the most shot in its own ranks?

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