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.

Animals in history in ten questions.

Napoleon's dog, torture to bees and sodomite sheep… Answer the questions that made our presenter grow 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 last mammoth died out 15,000 years ago.

    To withstand extremely cold temperatures, it was provided with a kind of anal valve.

    True or false ?

  • In the 1960s, the CIA tried to train pigeons to register people on the streets.

    True or false ?

  • In "Historically your", we offer you stories, but let's give back to César what belongs to Christophe Hondelatte, who is the master of the narration on our antenna.

    Moreover, on europe1.fr, one can find an account dated August 25 entitled "Excommunicated sows and sodomite sheep".

    True or false ?

  • Bonaparte had a pug.

    His name was Snowy.

    True or false ?

  • In the 4th century BC, in Southeast Asia, bees were used for certain death sentences: a sort of funnel was put in the mouth of the unfortunate man and a swarm of bees was put into it.

    True or false ?

  • In Brussels, you can find a monument to the dead dedicated to the sheep that were used to demine during the Second World War.

    True or false ?

  •  What prehistoric animal, named after a star, really existed?

  • In the middle of summer 1702, Louis 14 canceled all his appointments for several days because, Filou, his favorite miniature poodle, died.

    True or false ?

  • Not only Jonathan, the oldest tortoise recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, was born the same year as Jules Ferry, namely 1832, but in addition, she breathes through the anus.

    True or false ?

  • Ming is the name of a prestigious dynasty that ruled China from 1368 to 1644. But it is also the name of the oldest animal in the world, a clam that we called Ming because it was born at that time.

    True or false ?

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