[friday 13th quiz] know your leader

1] He claimed the middle S had no meaning, had been a haberdasher and loved to say, "If you can't stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen."

2] In all, she had four children but the unions with her brothers produced no children. She took her own life, allegedly by means of an asp.

3] He was beaten as a child, his family called him Soso and his political repression and other moves are estimated to have cost the lives of up to 20 million people.

4] The achievements were by some very great subjects, ruled forty-five years, creating only nine peerage dignities, one earldom and seven baronies.

5] Acceded a few months before his fifth birthday, his principal means of taxation included the aides, the douanes, the gabelle, and the taille.

6] Gambling is not so Graceful, openly lived with the French film star Gisèle Pascal at one stage, nation bankrupt after WW1.

7] Joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, killed maybe 400 000 citizens, called himself "His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor[3], VC,[4] DSO, MC, CBE.

8] Her two daughters were raped and she rebelled against the oppressors; she wore a long, full skirt with a plaid or checked belted tunic over it.

9] The Governor-General sparked a constitutional crisis in 1975, toppling this tall, witty man from office and giving leadership to an ex-grazier.

10] Known for his flamboyance, he dated celebrities, sometimes wore sandals in the Commons, was accused of using an obscenity, and once did a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.

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