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Friday, January 09, 2009

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference - this week: Dictators and Tyrants. Answers here.

1. Which tyrannical Roman emperor, who ruled from AD54 to 68, was said to have been responsible for two-thirds of Rome being destroyed by fire?
2. Who was the nationalist dictator of Spain until he died in 1975?
3. Which Italian dictator (1883-1945) was called "Duce" (leader) by his followers?
4. Which country did Fulgencio Batista rule as dictator from 1933 and again from 1952 to 1959?
5. Name the President of Uganda who gained power by a military coup in 1971 and established a dictatorship marked by atrocities.
6. Who wrote "The Tyrant's Novel", published in 2003, which concerned the autocratic regime of a country like Iraq?
7. In which country was Kim Il Sung a virtual dictator between 1948 and his death in 1994?
8. In his film comedy "The Great Dictator", what name did Charles Chaplin give the dictator he played, who looked like Adolf Hitler?
9. Who wrote the poem "Epitaph on a Tyrant", which included the lines "When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets"?
10. Which Romanian dictator was executed in 1989 to end his two-decade dictatorship?

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