Famous Leaders & Politicians Quiz

Question 1

Who was the first President of the United States?

Accepted Answer

George Washington

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Thomas Jefferson

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Benjamin Franklin

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John Adams

Question 2

Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister of the UK during World War II. Which party did he lead?

Accepted Answer

Conservative

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Labour

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Liberal Democrats

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Liberal

Question 3

Who was the first democratically elected President of South Africa?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

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Thabo Mbeki

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F.W. de Klerk

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Walter Sisulu

Question 4

Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany for how many years?

Accepted Answer

16 years

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8 years

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12 years

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20 years

Question 5

Who led the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule?

Accepted Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Subhas Chandra Bose

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Question 6

Which US President served during both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the moon landing?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

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Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon

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John F. Kennedy alone

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Lyndon B. Johnson alone

Question 7

Who founded the People's Republic of China in 1949?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

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Deng Xiaoping

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Zhou Enlai

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Chiang Kai-shek

Question 8

Which leader of the Soviet Union oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Yuri Andropov

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 9

Who was the first female Prime Minister of a democratic country?

Accepted Answer

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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Golda Meir of Israel

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Margaret Thatcher of UK

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Indira Gandhi of India

Question 10

Which French leader is known for declaring 'Vive le Québec libre!' during a 1967 speech in Canada?

Accepted Answer

Charles de Gaulle

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François Mitterrand

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Nicolas Sarkozy

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Georges Pompidou

Question 11

Who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Vladimir Lenin

Question 12

Which Cuban leader held power for nearly 50 years from 1959?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

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Raúl Castro

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Che Guevara

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Fulgencio Batista

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln is known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. What did it declare?

Accepted Answer

That all enslaved people in Confederate states were to be considered free

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That the United States was independent from Britain

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That all enslaved people in the US were immediately free

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That women would receive the right to vote

Question 14

Which British Prime Minister signed the Good Friday Agreement that helped bring peace to Northern Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Tony Blair

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John Major

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Gordon Brown

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Margaret Thatcher

Question 15

Who was Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister?

Accepted Answer

Abe Shinzo

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Yoshida Shigeru

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Nakasone Yasuhiro

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Koizumi Junichiro

Question 16

Which US President is associated with the 'New Deal' that helped America recover from the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Herbert Hoover

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Harry S. Truman

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 17

Which leader transformed Singapore from a developing nation to one of the world's wealthiest countries?

Accepted Answer

Lee Kuan Yew

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Goh Chok Tong

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Lee Hsien Loong

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S. Rajaratnam

Question 18

Who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917?

Accepted Answer

Vladimir Lenin

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Leon Trotsky

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Joseph Stalin

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Alexander Kerensky

Question 19

Which Australian Prime Minister famously 'disappeared' while swimming in 1967?

Accepted Answer

Harold Holt

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Robert Menzies

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Gough Whitlam

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John Gorton

Question 20

Jacinda Ardern made headlines globally as New Zealand's Prime Minister. What made her internationally distinctive?

Accepted Answer

She became the first elected head of government to give birth while in office in modern times

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She was New Zealand's first female PM

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She won the Nobel Peace Prize

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She served for 20 years as PM