I guess it depends on your age. Aside from the obvious Hitler, Napoleon and Mussolini, I can remember all of these being in power except for Sulla (obviously). I also couldn't place Trujillo for the life of me, though I knew his name. The rest were easy only because the news was full of them in their heydays.
It would be a good quiz to see the "retirement" plan for each of these dictators. How many besides Sulla stepped away from power voluntarily and how many were carried out feet first?
Only Castro stepped down voluntarily (to be succeeded by his own brother), Mugabe is still power. Mao, Tito, Duvalier, Kim, Franco and Brezhnev all governed until they died of more or less natural causes. The rest (except Sulla) were all either kicked out or assassinated.
Pinochet was actually the only one who called for elections and gave the power in a peaceful way. Castro instead died like a simple banana-country dictator
Okay. So how random is Sulla. There isn't a person on the list, except for Napoleon, who is pre-20th century. Then all of a sudden Sulla, a guy who was born before Christ.
The quiz doesn't claim to have all the dictators, just a selection. Besides, seeing as it already contains Brezhnev it would be silly to also include Stalin and Lenin as they were from the same regime in the same country, just at different times
He was elected "mostly" fairly (lots of documented evidence of democrats committing voter fraud), but once he was in power he overstepped his authority. That's what happened with many dictators on this list. They're well-liked when they come to power, but the power gets to them and they take it to the extreme
Okay, hardy har, y'all can make jokes about not liking certain presidents but none of them are dictators because they were all elected fairly by the electoral college.
Sacrebleu! You put Napoleon on zis list, zis is an outrage, Monsieur!
Sulla and Napoleon are indeed dictators but more in the old Roman way: all powers to one person so he can end the internal troubles of a country. No genocide, no mass-killing of own citizens, or at least not more than any French king at least...
Alongside several other people, this comment defends someone from the calumny of being a dictator, associated with repression, imprisnoment without trial, murder and genocide. Yet the quiz doesn't do anything of the sort. It doesn't say "these people were evil monsters" it simply describes them as dictators, which they all were, and asks you to name the country they ruled, which they all did. Lucassar actually says "Yes, he was a dictator, but of the good sort". Nobody said any different. The quiz isn't making any judgements, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
When Hitler was born Germany has only been around for about 20 years. Just because Austria didn't happen to be one of the countries that unified into Germany right at the beginning, that doesn't mean Hitler wasn't German. Nationality is not something that is fixed, and when Germany annexed Austria Hitler was also leader of Austria. "Germany" and "Austria" we're not at that time fixed concepts like "the USA" or "Canada" are today. But anyway the quiz does ask for the country they ruled, not their nationality, and Hitler ruled Germany.
I thought putting Sulla was really cool. His title was officially Dictator (said in a Latin accent, of course). It would also have been appropriate to put Julius Caesar, whom everybody thinks was the first Roman Emperor, which he wasn't.
I have a problem referring to the USSR leaders (except Stalin) as dictators as they had to answer to the central committee and dictators answer to no one.
The average score is 14 so yes, I would say that is good for a 12 yo. Definitely not bad. Most of the people on this site are older than that, and could have heard of several from the news. Only some are covered in history classes.
So anyone saying getting 11 is bad for a 12 yo, has got some issues. (inferiority or superiority.. always hard to tell..)
even it it was bad, no need to rub it in someone's face.
I doubt I would have done that well on a similar quiz when I was 12. Mubarak and Gaddafi would have still been in power but I doubt I could have named them.
You may want to give your definition of a dictator, you clearly mix many different ages and it is historically wrong to put aside Hitler or Mussolini with older leaders like Napoleon or Sulla or with more recent ones like Saddam Hussein.
This list does not make any sense, if you just take the fact that power was in the hands of a unique person you could put in there any king in history like Henry VIII or king Richard and I'm quite sure you wouldn't describe them as dictators though.
Sulla and Napoleon are indeed dictators but more in the old Roman way: all powers to one person so he can end the internal troubles of a country. No genocide, no mass-killing of own citizens, or at least not more than any French king at least...
Great quiz though!
So anyone saying getting 11 is bad for a 12 yo, has got some issues. (inferiority or superiority.. always hard to tell..)
even it it was bad, no need to rub it in someone's face.
Also is there any reason why Stalin was omitted from this quiz?
Rome was a country, arguably.
2. Yugoslavia - Serbia
3. Zaire - DRC
4. Rome - Italy
This list does not make any sense, if you just take the fact that power was in the hands of a unique person you could put in there any king in history like Henry VIII or king Richard and I'm quite sure you wouldn't describe them as dictators though.