Statistics for 20th Century Dictators

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Italy, 1922-45	Benito Mussolini	99%
Germany, 1933-45	Adolf Hitler	98%
Soviet Union, 1924-53	Josef Stalin	98%
China, 1949-76	Mao Zedong	95%
Spain, 1939-75	Francisco Franco	93%
Cuba, 1959-2008	Fidel Castro	90%
Yugoslavia, 1944-80	Josip Broz Tito	90%
Chile, 1973-90	Augusto Pinochet	79%
Iraq, 1979-2003	Saddam Hussein	79%
Cambodia, 1975-79	Pol Pot	77%
North Korea, 1948-94	Kim Il-sung	75%
North Korea, 1994-2011	Kim Jong-il	72%
Zimbabwe, 1980-2017	Robert Mugabe	72%
Libya, 1969-2011	Muammar Gaddafi	70%
Uganda, 1971-79	Idi Amin	68%
Indonesia, 1965-98	Suharto	65%
Haiti, 1957-71	Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier	61%
Iran, 1953-79	Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	59%
Iran, 1979-89	Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini	57%
Taiwan, 1949-75	Chiang Kai-shek	55%
Philippines, 1965-86	Ferdinand Marcos	55%
Egypt, 1954-70	Gamal Abdel Nasser	55%
Syria, 1970-2000	Hafez al-Assad	55%
Panama, 1983-89	Manuel Noriega	55%
Serbia, 1991-2000	Slobodan Milosevic	50%
Albania, 1944-85	Enver Hoxha	49%
Romania, 1965-89	Nicolae Ceausescu	49%
Portugal, 1932-68	Antonio de Oliveira Salazar	44%
South Korea, 1961-79	Park Chung-hee	39%
Zaire (Congo), 1965-97	Mobutu Sese Seko	38%
Sudan, 1989-2019	Omar al-Bashir	30%
Nicaragua, 1967-79	Anastasio Somoza Debayle	21%
South Vietnam, 1955-63	Ngo Dinh Diem	19%
Ethiopia, 1977-91	Mengistu Haile Mariam	15%
Pakistan, 1977-88	Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq	13%

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