You Should Meet My Dad Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jazz Pianist

The elder Mussolini is remembered for founding the National Fascist Party in Italy, and inspiring leaders such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Francisco Franco in Spain. Under his dictatorship, Italy, with its "Blackshirts" occupied Ethiopia as the start of Mussolini's dream of returning the country to the global domination it had displayed during the reign of the Romans. His son Romano showed no interest in politics and after studying music as a child, became a proficient jazz pianist.

He released his first album in 1956 and by the 1960s had formed the Romano Mussolini All Stars, who released the award winning album "Jazz Allo Studio" in 1962. Romano released many albums over his career, right up until his death In 2006, and played with jazz greats such as Tony Scott, Chet Baker and Dizzy Gillespie.He was married to Maria Scicolone, the younger sister of actress Sophia Loren and his eldest daughter Alessandra founded the Italian neofascist party, "Alternativa Sociale" in 2003.

Answer: Hermann Goering

Hermann Goering was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi party, and spent six years as Adolf Hitler's deputy. Towards the end of the WWII, he became a fanatical collector of artworks, the majority of which was stolen from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He was captured after the war and sentenced to death by hanging, but committed suicide hours before this could be carried out.

Edda Goering was born in 1938 and at her baptism received several works of art, many given as a result of her father's influence. One such was a painting of the "Madonna and Child" by Lucas Cranach the Elder, which she received from the City of Cologne. Following a lengthy legal battle, she had to return the painting to the city in 1968 as it was ruled that Hermann had placed pressure on the city to gift it. This was not her only legal battle as there were more regarding works of art, and in 2015 she petitioned the Bavarian State Parliament for compensation with respect to the expropriation of her father's legacy, although this was unanimously turned down.

Edda always maintained that she was proud to be a Goring and said of her father, "My father was not a fanatic. You could see the peacefulness in his eyes...I loved him very much, and you could see he loved me", following this with, "My only memories of him are such loving ones, I cannot see him any other way. I actually expect that most everybody has a favourable opinion of my father". Edda died in 2018, and although she spoke of her father, she never spoke publicly on his role in WWII or the Holocaust.

Answer: Nuclear Physics

Ceausescu had three children, physicist Valentin, mathematician Zoia and Nicu. Nicu was very much the opposite of his siblings, failing school and then using his position to enter university before being groomed as his father's successor. Tales of him drinking heavily since high school as well of him being a serial rapist, heavy gambler and renowned car thief were commonplace in the country and he was arrested in 1989 shortly before his parents were executed. In 1990, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for misuse of funds while his father was in power, but was released on health grounds in 1992, before dying due to cirrhosis in 1996.
Sister Zoia specialised in functional analysis mathematics and was head of the Bucharest Institute of Mathematics. She was arrested at the same time as Nicu and released after eight months. Unable to return to her previous employment, she devoted herself to a life of wild partying, before dying from lung cancer in 2006 aged 57.
Valentin was never involved in politics and after completing his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Bucharest, moved to UK to study further at at Imperial College London. Upon completing his education, he returned to Romania, to begin work at the Institute of Atomic Physics. He was arrested when his parents were deposed, but released without charge. While in prison, his collection of engravings by Francisco Goya, and hundreds of rare books were confiscated, requiring him to take the new government to court for their return. The courts found in his favour and the works were returned to him, as was his good name.

Answer: Idi Amin

Idi Amin was President of Uganda between 1971 and 1979 and in just eight years managed to go down in history as one of the most brutal dictators ever seen, with humans rights groups estimating that as many as 500,000 people were killed under his regime. Additionally ethnic persecution and political repression were widespread as were corruption, and gross economic mismanagement.

Despite all the evidence though, Jaffar Amin, after seeing his father portrayed by Forrest Whitaker in the hit "The Last King Of Scotland" (2006), felt he had to speak out and say that his father was being judged unfairly.
He maintains that his father was neither an abuser of human rights, nor an incompetent economist who almost drove the country to financial ruin and attempts to clear his father's name in his book, "Idi Amin: Hero or Villain?" (2010)

Answer: Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann was private secretary to Adolf Hitler, a man he idolised so much that he named his son Adolf Martin Bormann and asked Hitler to be his godfather. By all accounts Bormann junior had a rough childhood at the hands of his father, and although he was a devoted Nazi party member, when at the age of 15, his father disappeared, Bormann junior fled to Austria. Here he was taken in by a priest and converted to Catholicism, becoming ordained as a priest in 1958. He worked for three years as a missionary in Congo before returning back to Austria, where in 1969 he was involved in a near fatal car accident.

He was nursed back to health by a Catholic nun and during the healing, they fell in love. Both renounced their vows and were married in 1971 and Bormann became a theology teacher, touring Germany and Austria, speaking about the Third Reich. He also travelled to Israel and spoke with Holocaust survivors, although he always refused to publicly condemn his father, insisting that only God can judge a man. Bormann died in 2013, aged 82 in Germany.

Answer: Marko Milosevic

Marko Milosevic began his rally career in 1993, driving a Suzuki Swift in the Pan Rally of Yugoslavia and made his European Rally Championship debut the following year in a Lancia Delta. In 1995, he raced in three ERC events, driving a Peugeot 106 and an Opel Astra. He also raced the Astra in a two litre World Rally Championship event in the Acropolis Rally in Greece, but failed to finish in any of these events. There are many rumours of Marko's involvement in organised crime in Serbia and following his father' s removal from power in 2000, he fled the country and is believed to have taken refuge in Russia.

Slobodan Milosevic was the first president of Serbia, serving between 1991 and 1997, when he became president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, until 2000. Following the presidential elections of that year, he was forced to step down and initially arrested on suspicion of corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement. He was then extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War, the Croatian War of Independence, and the Kosovo War. The trial lasted five years and came to a sudden halt, when he died in March 2006, in his prison cell of a heart attack.

Answer: Fidelito Castro

Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, more commonly known as Fidelito was the oldest son of the former Cuban leader and his wife Mirta Diaz-Balart. Fidelito graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University and worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia before going on to lead Cuba's nuclear power program. During his career, he authored many publications on the topic of nuclear energy. In the 2010s, he became vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences, a position he still held in 2018, when he took his own life during a period of depression.

Fidel Castro Ruz, father of Fidelito and better known as just Fidel Castro, was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president between 1976 and 2008. During his long reign, Castro did some good, such as increasing literacy rates in the country and giving Cubans greater access to healthcare and housing, but his detractors will point to the country's dismal human rights record, with thousands of 'prisoners of conscience' imprisoned by the government for exercising their right to freedom of expression, association and assembly.

Answer: Amon Goeth

Goeth, (also spelled Göth) was commandant of the Krakow-P³aszow concentration camp for most of WWII, where it is estimated that between 8,000 and 12,000 people were murdered. He was known for his strict regime, which involved punishments such as killing every second member of a working party if one member committed a minor infraction, and shooting people who walked too slowly as they passed his window. He owned two dogs which had been trained to tear prisoners apart on his command and once even shot a Jewish cook to death, because the soup that she had served him was too hot. In the 1993 movie, "Schindler's List", he was memorably played by Ralph Fiennes.

While still married, Goeth began an affair with beautician Ruth Irene Kalder, who described her initial meeting with Goeth as love at first sight. This affair resulted in the birth of Monika in November 1945, who never got to know her father as he was executed for war crimes in September 1946.
Monika's only memories of her father came from her mother, Ruth who described him as a good man and a war hero, something Monika believed up until early adulthood. Even though Ruth had witnessed Goeth hunting humans, she stuck up for him and attempted to defend his name, until a 1983 interview with the BBC, when she was shown transcripts of his trial. This was the first time that Monika, now aged 37 had heard anything but praise for her father, and Ruth committed suicide the day after the interview, leaving Monika to uncover the true story alone.

Following "Schindler's List" (1993), Monika developed an intense hatred for director Steven Spielberg for the way in which he had depicted her father, but came to realise that he was truly a monster and her story is told in the 2006 documentary, "Inheritance*. An interesting read, concerning Goeth is "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me", a 2015 book by Jennifer Teege, daughter to Monika and an unnamed Nigerian man.

Answer: Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein controlled a repressive dictatorship in Iraq, as president of the country between 1979 and 2003. Under his rule, Iraq invaded both Iran and Kuwait, leading to the Iran - Iraq war between 1980 and 1988 and the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991. During his rule, a programme of genocide was carried out against the Kurdish population, with the number of deaths being estimated as high as 182,000 by some groups. He was also responsible for the disappearance of over 5,000 Barzani men, the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys from a single village and at least 250 mass grave sites.

His son Uday was installed as chairman of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and the Iraq Football Association in 1984, and soon became feared for his motivational techniques, with Uday's body double, Latif Yahia saying "The word that defines him is sadistic. I think Saddam Hussein was more human than Uday."
Uday had a private prison installed in the Olympic committee building, where he would torture athletes that he felt weren't training hard enough with one former athlete claiming that his colleagues had been dragged through a gravel pit and then immersed in a sewage tank to induce infection in their wounds. Following a loss to Japan in the AFC Asian Cup of 2000, the three members of the football team blamed for the defeat were flogged for three days by Uday's staff.

Answer: Guatemala

Efraín Ríos Montt was the dictator in charge of Guatemala between March 1982 and August 1983 and in that short time he waged a ferocious war against indigenous Mayas in the country. He oversaw many deliberate acts of genocide, including the killings of 1,771 Maya Ixil Indians, including children, for which he was sentenced to 80 years imprisonment, becoming the first former head of state to have been convicted of genocide by a court in his own country.
This ruling was overturned though and a retrial began in 2016, which was never completed due to the death of Rios Montt in 2018 of a heart attack.

His daughter, Zury Rios, served four terms as a Member of the Congress of Guatemala between 1996 and 2012, the last eight years, while she resided primarily in USA after marrying Republican U.S. Congressman Jerry Weller.
In 2019, Rios declared her intention to run for the presidency of Guatemala, but this resulted in a court case, which went against her when the court decided that Guatemala's constitution bars close relatives of coup leaders from serving as president.