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Dictators Trivia

From Führers to Papa Docs, test your knowledge of history’s strongmen—no coup required.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Which U.S. president asked Congress to declare war on Japan on December 8, 1941, one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which U.S. president challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” in a 1987 Berlin speech?

Ronald Reagan

Which Soviet cosmonaut became the first human to orbit Earth during the 1961 Vostok 1 mission?

Yuri Gagarin

What was the name of the coalition military operation that began with air strikes in January 1991 and liberated Kuwait the following month?

Operation Desert Storm

What Paris prison-fortress was stormed by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789?

The Bastille