Famous World Leaders Quiz

Question 1

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Answer

Queen Victoria

Answer

Theresa May

Answer

Barbara Castle

Question 2

Who led India's independence movement through non-violent resistance?

Accepted Answer

Mahatma Gandhi

Answer

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer

Subhas Chandra Bose

Answer

Bhimrao Ambedkar

Question 3

Who was the first President of South Africa after apartheid ended?

Accepted Answer

Nelson Mandela

Answer

Desmond Tutu

Answer

Walter Sisulu

Answer

Steve Biko

Question 4

Which emperor built the Great Wall of China?

Accepted Answer

Qin Shi Huang

Answer

Kublai Khan

Answer

Emperor Wu

Answer

Emperor Yongle

Question 5

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?

Accepted Answer

A French military commander who became Emperor

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A French king

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A Spanish general who conquered France

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An Italian leader who unified Europe

Question 6

Which British monarch reigned the longest in history?

Accepted Answer

Queen Elizabeth II

Answer

Queen Victoria

Answer

King George III

Answer

King Henry VIII

Question 7

Who was the first Chancellor of unified Germany?

Accepted Answer

Otto von Bismarck

Answer

Kaiser Wilhelm I

Answer

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Answer

Paul von Hindenburg

Question 8

Who was the leader of the Cuban Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Answer

Che Guevara

Answer

Raúl Castro

Answer

Fulgencio Batista

Question 9

Which Roman Emperor converted to Christianity?

Accepted Answer

Constantine I

Answer

Augustus

Answer

Nero

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Diocletian

Question 10

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Answer

Florence Nightingale

Answer

Mother Teresa

Answer

Bertha von Suttner

Question 11

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Answer

Lenin

Answer

Trotsky

Answer

Khrushchev

Question 12

Which pharaoh is most associated with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Accepted Answer

Khufu (Cheops)

Answer

Ramesses II

Answer

Tutankhamun

Answer

Cleopatra

Question 13

Who was the last Tsar of Russia?

Accepted Answer

Nicholas II

Answer

Alexander III

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Nicholas I

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Alexander II

Question 14

Who founded the Mongol Empire?

Accepted Answer

Genghis Khan

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Kublai Khan

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Timur (Tamerlane)

Answer

Ögedei Khan

Question 15

Who was the first President of the United States to be impeached?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

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Richard Nixon

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Bill Clinton

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John Tyler

Question 16

Which Japanese leader is known as the architect of Japan's modernisation in the 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Emperor Meiji

Answer

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Answer

Ito Hirobumi

Answer

Saigo Takamori

Question 17

Which leader was known as 'The Father of the Nation' in Turkey?

Accepted Answer

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Answer

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Answer

Ismet Inönü

Answer

Süleyman Demirel

Question 18

Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech in 1963?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer

Malcolm X

Answer

John Lewis

Answer

Medgar Evers

Question 19

Which French leader gave his name to a doctrine of European independence from US influence?

Accepted Answer

Charles de Gaulle

Answer

Georges Pompidou

Answer

François Mitterrand

Answer

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Question 20

Who was the first female head of government in the world?

Accepted Answer

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Answer

Indira Gandhi

Answer

Golda Meir