A Little Mystery About Their History Quiz

Answer: Suleiman

Suleiman the Magnificent was responsible for the reconstruction of the walls in Old Jerusalem that are still visible today. This action occurred during the time when Jerusalem was a part of the Ottoman Empire. He decided to rebuild the city walls completely, partly on the remains of the ancient walls.

Answer: Pol Pot

Saloth Sâr, who later adopted the name Pol Pot, was one of the few elite of Cambodia to have been educated in Paris. Years later he became a Marxist revolutionary and politician and ruled with an utterly horrible "iron hand"; destroying many of his fellow countrymen in the process.

From 1975 to 1979 the brutal Khmer Rouge of Cambodia, led by despotic dictator Pol Pot, managed to kill roughly between 1.7 to 3.4 million people (estimates vary widely) out of a total population of 8 million.

Answer: Cleopatra

Caesarion was the oldest son of Cleopatra and was rumored to possibly be the only biological son of Julius Caesar, after whom he was named by his mother. Some, like Gaius Oppius and Octavian, had a real problem with that claim and denied the fact that he was son of Julius Caesar.
While some proclaimed him to be "King of Kings" and son of a god, Marc Antony even stated that he was the offspring of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Others in the Roman Empire, however, disagreed with those proclamations.

Answer: Hirohito

Hirohito had been emperor of Japan during WWII and had finally capitulated to U.S. forces in an effort to save his island nation from more suffering due to nuclear attacks such as had been inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His birth name was Michinomiya Hirohito and after his death in 1989 he became known as Shōwa.
He was the longest-reigning monarch in Japan's history. His son, who later became emperor after his death, was named Akihito, while Hirohito's father's name was Meiji.

Answer: Tsar Alexander I

Queen Alexandrina Victoria, born in 1819, reigned over the United Kingdom and Ireland between 1837 until her death in 1901. She was sometimes known by the nickname that she often preferred, "Drina", as well as being known by her middle name of Victoria.

The man for whom she was named, Tsar Alexander I, had been the Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland until his assassination in 1881.

Answer: Imelda Romualdez Marcos - Philippines

Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos became President and First Lady of the Philippines in 1965 and it didn't take them long to become absurdly corrupt. Besides their massive amounts of corruption, one interesting event occurred in 1965 when the British band, The Beatles, were in the country.

They were invited to a private event at the Palace, which they declined. As a result, the Manila International Airport was ordered locked down by the Marcos and angry mobs stormed their hotel rooms in an effort to prevent them from leaving the country!

Answer: Idi Amin Dada

Idi Amin Dada Oumee was a former Ugandan military officer who became the President of Uganda, providing a reign of terror that lasted from 1971 to 1979. He declared himself president on 2 February 1971 after a week-long military coup. U.S. ambassador, Thomas Patrick Melady, described Amin as a "racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic" type person.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt is generally ranked in polls of historians and political scientists as one of the five best presidents. Having groomed his friend, William Howard Taft, for the presidency, his eventual frustration with his successor prompted him to begin a new political entity, the Bull Moose Party.

Answer: LBJ (Johnson)

The Australian government expanded Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War during Holt's tenure and that certainly did not sit well with his fellow countrymen. Since his body was never found after he drowned this caused a number of conspiracy theories to spring up.

Answer: Paul

Paul's native province of Cilicia, a region in southern Turkey, was well known for producing and exporting a goat hair cloth that was used for making tents. The cloth was woven from the hair of a peculiar breed of black goats native to the area.

Paul wrote many of the books of the New Testament while imprisoned for his beliefs and preaching of Jesus Christ. He had been converted on his way to persecute Christians in Damascus, Syria, and turned his life completely around to follow Christian tenets.