Q 01/05

Which dictator is reported to have asked his generals in 1939 who still spoke of the annihilation of the Armenians?

A) Joseph Stalin

B) Benito Mussolini

C) Adolf Hitler

D) Francisco Franco

Answer · why

C) Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler reportedly closed his Obersalzberg speech with that question, a week before invading Poland. Notes of the speech reached the West through...

Q 02/05

Which lawyer, who coined the word genocide, told his professor that the Armenians are not chickens?

A) Hersch Lauterpacht

B) Raphael Lemkin

C) René Cassin

D) Hans Kelsen

Answer · why

B) Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin was answering a professor who likened a state killing its own people to a farmer killing his flock. The United Nations later built its ...

Q 03/05

Which American ambassador called the Ottoman deportation orders a death warrant to a whole race?

A) Walter Hines Page

B) James W. Gerard

C) Myron T. Herrick

D) Henry Morgenthau

Answer · why

D) Henry Morgenthau

Henry Morgenthau received almost daily reports from American consuls across the empire. He published his account in 1918 and raised funds for the surv...

Q 04/05

Which legal phrase did Britain, France and Russia use in May 1915 to condemn the Armenian massacres?

A) Crimes against humanity

B) Violations of neutrality

C) Ethnic cleansing

D) Collective punishment

Answer · why

A) Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity appeared in the three allies' joint declaration of 24 May 1915, which also threatened to hold the perpetrators personally acco...

Q 05/05

Which pope called the Armenian massacres the first genocide of the 20th century at a centenary Mass?

A) John Paul II

B) Francis

C) Benedict XVI

D) Paul VI

Answer · why

B) Francis

Pope Francis used the phrase in St. Peter's Basilica in April 2015, with Armenia's president and the heads of the Armenian church in the congregation.