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. 

Sport in history in ten questions.

Great feats, ancient sports and cricket… Answer the questions that made our presenter rack up and laugh 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? 

  • The first person Mohamed Ali knocked out was his mother.

    He was then 2 years old.

    True or false ?

  • In 2000 BC, the Mayans played a ball game on an H-shaped field. This game is called the game of Popol.

    True or false ?

  • You may know the tomb of Victor Noir, at Père Lachaise.

    Ladies are encouraged to rub on his statue to combat infertility.

    In Brazil, the tomb of Marta Vieira da Silva, a poet from the beginning of the 20th century, invites men to rub together to combat erection problems.

    True or false ?

  • When you reach a score of 111 in cricket, you call it "making a Nelson", which is a tribute not to Nelson Montfort, but to Admiral Nelson.

    True or false ?

  • Question on the life of our historian Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach: in her family, they found her a nice nickname, that of a massacre that left 20,000 dead.

    True or false ?

  • If we compare the skeleton of prehistoric women and the skeleton of today's high-level female athletes, they are the most well-rounded women of prehistory.

    True or false ?

  • In 1942, France was occupied by Germany.

    The Nazis organize a bicycle race during the summer to replace the Tour de France.

    It will be called the “Circuit de France. True or false?

  •  Dick Williams was an American tennis champion, he won the US Open in 1914 and 1916. What was his particularity?

  • We know the French football club en avant Guingamp, created in 1912. Well, funny coincidence, the motto of the Republic of Singapore is "En avant Singapore".

    True or false ?

  • In Russia in the 16th century, toboggan races were raced on wooden structures covered with ice.

    It inspired the roller coaster.

    And today, in Russia, they are called "American mountains".

    True or false ?

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