Saddam Hussein Quiz - 45 Trivia Questions!

Which British tabloid newspaper published a picture of Saddam Hussein in his underwear on the front cover in May 2005?

Daily Mirror
The Sun
The Guardian
The Daily Mirror

Who was the Russian agent who helped to keep Saddam Hussein in power in 1991?

Yevgeny Primakov
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
The Russian government

Which country condemned Iraq for carrying out an execution on Eid al-Adha, the first day of the Islamic holy month?

Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
China

Who was the US Ambassador to Iraq at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990?

April Glaspie
Robert Gates
George W Bush
John F. Kerry

Which Kurdish town was bombed by Saddam Hussein's forces in 1988?

Kassem.
Arbil
Kurdistan
Halabja

Which Arab country broke diplomatic relations with Iraq in 1977 over its criticism of Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives with Israel?

Sudan
Tunisia
Egypt
Qatar

Which US President announced a new world order in 1991?

President Jimmy Carter
George Bush
George Washington
Bush

Who was George W Bush's Secretary of Defence during the Iraq War?

Donald Rumsfeld
David Petraeus
Robert Gates
George Bush

Who was the second wife of former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein?

Saddam's daughter
Saddam Hussein
Samira Shahbandar
Aisha al-Sadr

Who was the head of the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq from 2002-2005?

Hans Blix
Roberto Mucci
Robert Gates
John Allen

What was the name of Iraq's first nuclear reactor, destroyed by Israel in 1981?

Saddam Hussein
Saddam's nuclear weapons
Saddam's nuclear program
Osirak

Who was the first French Prime Minister to meet with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein?

Nicolas Sarkozy
President Jacques Chirac
François Mitterrand
Jacques Chirac

Who was the Soviet leader at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?

Vladimir Putin
Putin
Boris Yeltsin
Mikhail Gorbachev

What was the name of Saddam Hussein's second son?

Saddam
Saddam's sons were named after his father.
Qusay
Ayad

Who was the historic leader of the Kurdish people who became a political symbol for the Iraqi Ba'athists?

Kurdish rulers
Saddam Hussein
Osama bin Laden
Saladin

Saddam Hussein was a member of which political party?

Saddam's Friends
National Guard
Saddam Hussein
Ba'ath Party

In what year did the United States invade Iraq?

2005
2003
2004
2007

What method of execution was carried out on 30th December 2006 on the first day of Eid ul-Adha?

Hanged
Impaled
Suicide
Shot

In 1990, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein threatened to destroy half of what country if it moved against him?

South Africa
China
Afghanistan
Israel

What type of watch did Saddam Hussein wear?

Panerai
Seiko
Rolex Submariner
Rolex

Who was the Egyptian leader who inspired the Ba'ath Party in Iraq?

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Sadat
Theodore Roosevelt
The Great Leader

What city did Saddam Hussein fall from in 2003?

Sanaa
Baghdad and Bagdad.
Baghdad
Baghdad and Sanaa

Who was the Soviet Prime Minister at the time of the 1972 Iraqi-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Co-Operation?

Boris Yeltsin
Kosygin
Nikita Khrushchev
Yeltsin

What was the name of Saddam Hussein's aide who was executed in October 2010?

Tariq Aziz
AbdulRahman AbdelRashid
Saddam Hussein's wife
Saddam Hussein

Who was the dictator of Iraq who had a cult of personality?

Saddam
George W. Bush
The United States
Saddam's father

How was former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, executed in 2006?

By gun fire
Having him put in prison
Hanging
In the car

Who is the author of 'A History of the Iraq Crisis: France, the United States and Iraq, 1991-2003'?

George Bush
M.F.K., George
Bozo, Frédéric
Afifi, Abdoulaye

In September 1990, the United States said it would protect its friends in the Gulf, but what did it mean?

Iraq
The United States was going to take over Iraq.
It would help its friends in the Gulf.
America would not allow its friends to go to war.

Who was the US President at the time of the 1991 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait?

George Washington
George H. W. Bush
John F. Kennedy
President Ronald Reagan

Who succeeded Gamal Abdul Nasser as President of Egypt in 1970?

Sadat
Nasser
Egypt
Anwar Sadat

What make of car did Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein order delivered to Egypt and Jordan before he invaded Kuwait?

Mercedes
Rolls-Royce
Toyota
Ford

What was the name of Iraq's oil-rich neighbouring country that refused to forgive its debt to Iraq after the Iraqi War of 1991?

Iraq
Qatar
Egypt
Kuwait

What was the name of Saddam Hussein's son?

Saddam's father
Uday
Saddam
Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein signed a treaty of friendship and co-operation with which country in 1972?

China
United Arab Emirates
Soviet Union
Japan

What was the name of Saddam Hussein's Health Minister who was sacked in 2003?

Riyadh Ibrahim
Abdul Rahman
Moqtada al-Saaf
Saddam Hussein

In 1991, Iraq was defeated by a coalition led by the United States in what war?

Gulf War
World War II
World War I
Afghanistan

In which country did Saddam Hussein and his wife Raghad defect to in 1995?

Egypt
The United States
South Korea
Jordan

Who was the Egyptian President at the time of the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Ayatollah Khomeini?

Nasser
Egypt's President
Sadat
AbdulRahman

The 'Anfal Campaign' was a genocidal campaign by Saddam Hussein against which ethnic group?

Sunnis
Arabs
Kurds
Iraqi Shiite

What is the title of the book by Mlfrid Braut-Hegghammer about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction?

The Secrets of a Nuclear Weapon
A New Weapons of Mass Destruction
Cheater's Dilemma
The World's Greatest War

Who was the US President at the time of the Iraq War?

Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
George Bush
George W Bush

What was the name of Saddam Hussein's secret police?

The Baathist Party
Mukhabarat
Saddam Hussein's army
Saddam Hussein's Security Forces

Who was the US Secretary of State at the time of the Iraq War?

John Kerry
Barack Obama
James Baker
George W. Bush

Who was the Ba'thist leader of Iraq from 1968-2003?

Saddam Husayn
Saddam's brother
The U.S.
Saddam Hussein's father

In which country was Fritz Edlinger, an outspoken supporter of Saddam Hussein, arrested in 2002?

South Korea
Austria
Germany
France
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