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Quiz about World Leaders The Missing Link

World Leaders - The Missing Link Quiz

Identify the missing link in these chronological sequences of political leaders. (Note: If a leader was in office on several occasions, only the first occasion is mentioned in the timeline).

A multiple-choice quiz by vishvakarman. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
vishvakarman

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
256,183

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

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Tough

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Question 1 of 10

1. Andrew Jackson - Martin Van Buren - William H. Harrison - John Tyler - ? - Zachary Taylor - Millard Fillmore - Franklin Pierce - James Buchanan Hint

Andrew Johnson

James K. Polk

Daniel Webster

Henry Clay

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Question 2 of 10

2. George III - George IV - ? - Victoria - Edward VII - George V - Edward VIII - George VI - Elizabeth II Hint

Edward VI

William IV

Charles II

Elizabeth I

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Question 3 of 10

3. Josef Stalin - Nikita Khrushchev - Leonid Breshnev - ? - Konstantin Tchernenko - Mikhail Gorbachev Hint

Lazar Kaganovich

Mikhail Suslov

Yuri Andropov

Andrei Kirilenko

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Question 4 of 10

4. Winston Churchill - Clement Attlee - Anthony Eden - Harold Macmillan - ? - Harold Wilson - Edward Heath - James Callaghan - Margaret Thatcher - John Major - Tony Blair Hint

Alec Douglas-Home

Rab Butler

George Orwell

Tony Benn

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Question 5 of 10

5. Hallstein - Rey - Malfatti - Mansholt - Ortoli - Jenkins - Thorne - Delors - ? - Prodi - Barroso Hint

Santer

Solana

Stoiber

Klaus

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Question 6 of 10

6. David Ben-Gurion - Moshe Sharett - Levi Eshkol - Golda Meir - Yitzhak Rabin - ? - Yitzhak Shamir - Shimon Peres - Benjamin Netanjahu - Ehud Barak - Ariel Sharon - Ehud Olmert Hint

Moshe Dayan

Bashir Gemayel

Ezer Weizman

Menachem Begin

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Question 7 of 10

7. Charles de Gaulle - ? - Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Francois Mitterand - Jacques Chirac - Nicolas Sarkozy Hint

Guy Mollet

Edith Cresson

Georges Pompidou

Laurent Fabius

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Question 8 of 10

8. Sukarno - Suharto - Jusuf Habibie - ? - Megawati Sukarnoputri - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Hint

Abdurrahman Wahid

Wiranto

Ferdinand Marcos

Amien Rais

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Question 9 of 10

9. Konrad Adenauer - Ludwig Erhard - Kurt-Georg Kiesinger - ? - Helmut Schmidt - Helmut Kohl - Gerhard Schroeder - Angela Merkel Hint

Walter Hallstein

Walter Scheel

Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Willy Brandt

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Question 10 of 10

10. ? - Mobutu Sese Seko - L.-D. Kabila - J. Kabila Hint

Patrice Lumumba

Joseph Kasavubu

Moise Tchombe

Wilfred Sanogo

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Andrew Jackson - Martin Van Buren - William H. Harrison - John Tyler - ? - Zachary Taylor - Millard Fillmore - Franklin Pierce - James Buchanan

Answer: James K. Polk

They are the pre-Civil War US Presidents. The Mexican-American war (1846-1848) in which the US gained the southwestern states occurred during Polk's presidency (1845-1849).

2. George III - George IV - ? - Victoria - Edward VII - George V - Edward VIII - George VI - Elizabeth II

Answer: William IV

They are the British Monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries. William IV of the House of Hanover was nicknamed the Sailor King because of his earlier career in the royal Navy.

3. Josef Stalin - Nikita Khrushchev - Leonid Breshnev - ? - Konstantin Tchernenko - Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer: Yuri Andropov

They were all secretary generals of the Communist Party of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Andropov was in charge of the Soviet empire between 1982 and his death in 1984.

4. Winston Churchill - Clement Attlee - Anthony Eden - Harold Macmillan - ? - Harold Wilson - Edward Heath - James Callaghan - Margaret Thatcher - John Major - Tony Blair

Answer: Alec Douglas-Home

They are the British Prime Ministers after WWII. Sir Alec Douglas-Home gave up his seat in the House of Lords to become prime minister in 1963 following the resignation for health reasons of Harold Macmillan. In 1964, the election was lost to Labour, and Douglas-Home was prime minister for only one year.

5. Hallstein - Rey - Malfatti - Mansholt - Ortoli - Jenkins - Thorne - Delors - ? - Prodi - Barroso

Answer: Santer

They are the presidents of the European Commissions. The commission headed by Jacques Santer of Luxembourg was ousted following a financial scandal in 1999 and replaced by the Prodi commission.

6. David Ben-Gurion - Moshe Sharett - Levi Eshkol - Golda Meir - Yitzhak Rabin - ? - Yitzhak Shamir - Shimon Peres - Benjamin Netanjahu - Ehud Barak - Ariel Sharon - Ehud Olmert

Answer: Menachem Begin

They are the prime ministers of Israel. Begin is best known for signing the Camp David peace accords with Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1979.

7. Charles de Gaulle - ? - Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Francois Mitterand - Jacques Chirac - Nicolas Sarkozy

Answer: Georges Pompidou

They are the presidents of the French 5th republic (1959 - ). Pompidou was president from 1969-1974, when he died while still in office.

8. Sukarno - Suharto - Jusuf Habibie - ? - Megawati Sukarnoputri - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Answer: Abdurrahman Wahid

They are the presidents of Indonesia since Independence. Wahid was already almost blind when he was president from 1999 - 2001. He was ousted from the presidency and Megawati, the daughter of Indonesia's first president Sukarno, became president.

9. Konrad Adenauer - Ludwig Erhard - Kurt-Georg Kiesinger - ? - Helmut Schmidt - Helmut Kohl - Gerhard Schroeder - Angela Merkel

Answer: Willy Brandt

They are the chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 - ). Brandt is best known for his reconciliatory policy towards the Warsaw Pact states, and his kneeling at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial, symbolizing Germany's begging for forgiveness for the atrocities committed during the Nazi era.

10. ? - Mobutu Sese Seko - L.-D. Kabila - J. Kabila

Answer: Joseph Kasavubu

They are the presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo after independence. Lumumba was the first prime minister. The country was called Zaire during parts of Mobutu's reign.

Source: Author vishvakarman

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