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 history of dictators in ten questions.

First job, childhood anecdotes and notable idiotic facts… Answer the questions that made our presenter question and laugh at our presenter Stéphane Bern and our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 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? 

  • Before blossoming into a brilliant career as a dictator, Benito Mussolini was a hairdresser in his early days.

    True or false ?

  • In 1938, Time Magazine's Man of the Year was Adolf Hitler.

    True or false ?

  • Fidel Castro had a passion for milkshakes.

    Knowing this cute sin, the CIA attempted to assassinate him by poisoning a chocolate milkshake.

    True or false ?

  • In 1973 Salvador Dali painted an oil painting depicting Hitler masturbating in a field.

    True or false ?

  •  What did the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu forbid in the early 1980s?

    - - - Or scrabble

  • Before leading a brilliant career as a revolutionary, Argentinian Che Guevara was a butcher.

    True or false ?

  • At the age of 4, little Adolf Hitler almost choked on a piece of meat.

    He was saved by the Heimlich method, named after a Jewish doctor of Hungarian origin, which involves doing abdominal compressions.

    True or false ?

  • The KCNA (namely the official government news agency of North Korea) issued an authentic statement claiming that Kim-Jong-Il had the physical ability to control the growth of his beard.

    True or false ?

  • Just because you're a dictator doesn't mean you don't want to convince.

    In 2002?

    Saddam Hussein produced an election campaign clip which was broadcast on TV with Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" as the background music.

    True or false ?

  •  In 1978, the President of Equatorial Guinea Macias Nguema changed the country's currency.

    What was this new currency?

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