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 the world in ten questions.

From Belgium to China, answer the questions that made our brain racket 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? 

  • On December 12, 1963, Kenya gained independence.

    There is Mount Kenya, whose name comes from the first 2 Bantu kings, who reigned together, "Ken y A", or "Ken and a", which gave the country its name.

    True or false ?

  • Shan Jahan had the Taj Mahal erected in honor of his beloved and regretted divine wife.

    The reputation of this building is also due to the fact that Shah Jahan had only one wife, an extremely rare fact for the time.

    True or false ?

  • Who is the British Ella Slack?

  • Benedict 16 is the oldest pope in history.

    True or false ?

  • Who is the American Barbara Millicent Roberts? 3 propositions - The woman who climbed Everest the first time without breathing assistance - the real name of Barbie

  • Assuming that Ernesto Guevara ended his life in France, did Che live long enough to see the program "Numbers and Letters" on television?

  • The national symbols of Belgium have been fixed since February 7, 1831. However, if we read the constitution of Belgium and if we look at the flag, we see an error.

    True or false ?

  • In the 15th and 16th centuries, the conquest of South America cooled the earth by 0.15 degrees Celsius.

    True or false ?

  • The pyramid of Kukulcan is one of the most famous pre-Columbian Mexican monuments.

    Hergé was inspired by it to draw the pyramid for the album "Tintin et les Picaros".

    If you clap your hands at the bottom of the stairs, it mimics the cry of a sacred bird, the quetzal.

    True or false ?

  • It is thanks to Mao that the siesta is written into the Chinese constitution.

    True or false ?

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