Statistics for Worst Popes of All Time

Click here to take the quiz!

Hint	Years in power	Answer	% Correct
Aged only 18 when elected pope, he raped female pilgrims, consecrated a 10-year-old boy as bishop, invoked pagan gods, gave land to a mistress, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.	955-964	John XII	77%
Split the church's finances among his relatives	985-966	John XV	77%
Took Italy by force, fathered at least seven, and possibly as many as ten illegitimate children, and threw large parties, bordering on orgies	1492-1503	Alexander VI	64%
Sold indulgences to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and had cardinals assassinated	1513-21	Leo X	59%
Gave up his papacy twice in exchange for a large sum of money	1032-1044 and 1047-48	Benedict IX	57%
Approved the use of torture to extract confessions of heresy	1243-54	Innocent IV	56%
Complained he not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured	1378-89	Urban VI	53%
Also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.	1523-34	Clement VII	49%
Had his predecessor exhumed, tried, de-fingered, and thrown to the river	896-897	Stephen VI	39%
Ordered the murder of another pope and the only known to have fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope	897-911	Sergius III	14%