Question: In 1780, Tipu's father attacked Carnatic and routed a British army. He was defeated and died in _______.
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Correct Answer Tipu was made the Sultan (king) of Mysore in a simple ceremony. He vowed to continue his father's war against the British and not sleep on a bed until he had driven the British off Indian soil.
Question: In 1767, Tipu's father was at war with the British, who were allied by the Nizam of Hyderabad and the _______________.
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Correct Answer The war continued until 1969, when the British, deserted by their allies, surrendered. This was Tipu's first participation in a real conflict. He showed bravery and high strategic skills, even though he was only eighteen years old.
Question: What was the name of Tipu Sultan's father?
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Correct Answer Hayder Ali rose to the post of commander-in-chief of the Mysorean army. In 1761, he launched a coup, ousting the previous ruler, and naming himself the undisputed ruler.
Correct Answer Tipu was born in Mysore, one of the few independent states of India free of British control. His real name is supposed to be Fateh Ali Tipu, after the great saint Tipu Mastan. His father, Hayder Ali, was a soldier in the Mysorean king's army.
Question: Which of the following brutal dictators did Saddam like comparing himself to and saw as an idol?
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Correct Answer Saddam loved Stalin as he based his own evil regime on the Soviet Union's government during the time when Stalin ruled. The two men never met, but oddly enough they look very similar, particularly with the moustache.
Question: In 1980 Saddam launched the Iran-Iraq War which was to last eight years and cost the lives of 400,000 Iraqis. (mainly soldiers). How many Iranians were killed in this conflict?
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Correct Answer When Saddam launched this war for the territory, he thought it would be quick and easy as he thought the Iranians were weak. Soon things got so bad for the Iraqi invasion that Saddam decided to start gassing thousands of Iranian soldiers.
Question: In which of these towns did Saddam's cousin, 'Chemical Ali,' gas thousands of Kurds?
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Correct Answer The most famous incident was Halabja but there were other gassings. There were gassings in the Balisan valley, there were gassings along the Iranian border in the area of the Balak valley, there were gassings along the Turkish border where over 100,000 Iraqi Kurds fled to Turkey even prior to the Gulf War where they lived in terrible conditions and camps where they weren't in fact recognise as refugees.
Question: Saddam Hussein was head of the Ba'ath Party who ran Iraq. The official full name of his party was the Arab Ba'ath ____ Party. Which word has been replaced by the blank?
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Correct Answer Although Saddam's tyranical regime would not be described by many as socialist (fascist would be a better description), the Ba'ath Party did in the past initiate pseudo-socialist projects by the building of schools and hospitals. Many political groups have used the term socialist in their title and been anything but so. For example the National Socialists (Nazis) hated Marxism, but included the term socialist in order to trick left-wingers into supporting them.
