World Leaders Trivia

1. Le Duc Tho was born in the Nam Dinh province of Vietnam in 1911. Under what colonial entity was Le Duc Tho born?

From Quiz Le Duc Tho

Answer: French Indochina

Nam Dinh is a small province located in northern Vietnam in the Red River Delta. At the time of Le Duc Tho's birth in 1911, Vietnam was a French colonial territory as part of French Indochina. French Indochina also included Cambodia and Laos and its capitals were Hanoi and Saigon.

From Quiz They Didn't Do Their Homework

Answer: Theodoros Pangalos

Theodoros Pangalos was born in 1978 on the island of Salamis. He graduated from the military academy with the rank of second lieutenant. He took part in the Balkan Wars and later Joined the National Defense Organization led by Eleftherios Venizelos. He died in 1952.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 6

Answer: Helmut Kohl

Helmut Kohl (1930-2017) was the longest serving German chancellor in the 20th century, in power for 16 years and 26 days. On 3 October 1990, he oversaw the German reunification. In international affairs, he was strongly committed to European integration and French-German cooperation. He supported President Reagan's more aggressive policies to weaken the Soviet Union. He played a vital role in the eastern enlargement of the European Union, leading the effort to push for international recognition for the independence of Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Domestically, he was successful in the economic reforms of integrating the former East Germany into a reunified Germany.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 5

Answer: Sir Robert Borden

Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937) was the last Canadian prime minister to be knighted, which took place in 1915. During the First World War, his government passed the War Measures Act and established the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The introduction of the compulsory military service started the conscription crisis. In 1917, he had to deal with the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion. In 1919, he ordered North-West Mounted Police to stop the Winnipeg general strike, which brought the economy of Winnipeg to a standstill for six weeks.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 4

Answer: Juan Domingo Peron

Juan Domingo Peron (1895-1974), former army general, was the Argentine President for three terms. During his first term from 1946 to 1952, he was ably supported by his second wife, Eva Duarte. He was elected for the second term from 1952 to 1955, despite the death of Eva. His Peronist party was outlawed and he was exiled until 1973. When he returned to Argentina in 1973, he was elected for the third time, and served until he died in 1974. He was succeeded by his third wife, Maria Estela Martina aka Isabel Peron who was his Vice-President. Isabel Peron served as the Argentine president from 1974 to 1976.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 3

Answer: Srimavo Bandaranaike

Srimavo Bandaraniake served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (until 1972 the Dominion of Ceylon) for three terms: 1960-1965, 1970-1977 and 1994-2000. She was the informal adviser to her husband Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike who was the fourth prime minister from 1956 to 1959. She entered politics after her husband was assassinated and became the Chairwoman of her party, which she led to victory in the July 1960 election.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 2

Answer: Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) was a skilled and able diplomat who also served as the foreign minister from 1949 to 1958. He played a big role in Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, paving the way to normalize diplomatic relationship with the United States. During the Cultural Revolution, he was the main driving force for the state affair. He protected many historical sites from being damaged by the Red Guards which made him very popular after the Cultural Revolution. At the same time, he provided protection for many key leaders, one of them was Deng Xiaoping, who was responsible for opening up China.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 1

Answer: Lenin

Vladimir Lenin aka Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov (1870-1924) was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). He was the first paramount leader of the Soviet state from 1917 until his death in 1924. He founded the Comintern (Communist International) and was the posthumous source of "Leninism" which was based on Karl Marx's works.

From Quiz Lord of the Flies

Answer: 20 minutes

Louis-Antoine briefly became King Louis XIX of France after the July Revolution in 1830. His father, Charles X, had reluctantly abdicated in the face of much opposition to his rule. Twenty minutes later, Louis-Antoine also abdicated and renounced his claim to the throne. In 1908, King Carlos I of Portugal was returning home with his family in an open carriage. Two members of the crowd fired at the carriage as it passed down the street. The king was killed instantly. His eldest son and heir, Luís Filipe, was severely wounded. The carriage was taken to a nearby Naval Arsenal where he died twenty minutes after his father.

From Quiz She Rules

Answer: Germany

Angela Merkel is arguably the best known of the ten ladies you'll meet in these questions. She was born in Hamburg (then West Germany) in 1954. A few months later, her father obtained a job in the state of Brandenburg (then part of East Germany) and so the family moved to what was then another country. Angela studied physics in Leipzig (East Germany). She married Ulrich Merkel in 1977 and took his surname. When the marriage ended in 1982 and Angela remarried Joachim Sauer in 1998, she stuck with the surname of her first husband - which is not the habit in Germany. In December 1989, a month after the Berlin Wall came down and while reunification of East and West Germany was being prepared, Merkel joined the new party Democratic Awakening. This East German party merged with the Christlich-Demokratischer Union (CDU, a centrum-conservative party) after both countries were reunited. In 1990 Merkel was elected to the Bundestag (parliament). She was appointed Minister of Women and Youth (1990-1994) and later Minister of Environment and Nuclear Energy (1994-1998). After the CDU was in the opposition for several years, Merkel's party won the 2005 election with a narrow margin over the SPD (socialist party). The CDU and the SPD then formed a government, with Merkel as Chancellor (function comparable to a Prime Minister). Merkel won the subsequent elections in 2009, 2013 and 2017 and thus could stay on as Chancellor for her fourth legislature. Merkel is especially known for her call to receive and integrate immigrants: "Wir schaffen das" ("We can do it").

From Quiz Interesting Trivia about World Leaders

Answer: Austria

Adolph Hitler was born 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria, just across the border from Germany. Austria at that time was part of Austria-Hungary. He was raised near Linz, Austria, then moved to Germany in 1913 as a young adult. He became a German citizen in 1932, a year before he became Chancellor in 1933.

From Quiz Sliding Rulers

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon was President of the French Republic from 1799 to 1804, and President of the Italian Republic between 1802 and 1805. There is a caveat here in that the Italian Republic is not the modern country of Italy that we now know. Italy was a region of individual states with their own rulers until the Napoleonic wars, when France invaded and conquered the northern part. It became a client state of the French Republic. The southern part was ruled by Napoleon's brother-in-law the King of Naples.

From Quiz Quit Laughing--I Am Your Leader

Answer: Andropov

Yes, it's a corny joke, but then most of the jokes from "Silver Spoons" were. Yuri Andropov's brief rule in the Soviet Union was actually very interesting for the Western World. On one hand, he was a former KGB leader, seemingly as hardline as his predecessors Khrushchev and Brezhnev. On the other hand, he may be best remembered for his exchange of letters with a 10-year old American girl, Samantha Smith. Dear Mr. Andropov, My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten years old. Congratulations on your new job. I have been worrying about Russia and the United States getting into a nuclear war. Are you going to vote to have a war or not? If you aren't please tell me how you are going to help to not have a war. This question you do not have to answer, but I would like to know why you want to conquer the world or at least our country. God made the world for us to live together in peace and not to fight. Sincerely, Samantha Smith Dear Samantha, I received your letter, which is like many others that have reached me recently from your country and from other countries around the world. It seems to me - I can tell by your letter - that you are a courageous and honest girl, resembling Becky, the friend of Tom Sawyer in the famous book of your compatriot Mark Twain. This book is well known and loved in our country by all boys and girls. [Most of the letter is omitted here in the interest of brevity.] We want peace - there is something that we are occupied with: growing wheat, building and inventing, writing books and flying into space. We want peace for ourselves and for all peoples of the planet. For our children and for you, Samantha. I invite you, if your parents will let you, to come to our country, the best time being this summer. You will find out about our country, meet with your contemporaries, visit an international children's camp - Artek - on the sea. And see for yourself: in the Soviet Union, everyone is for peace and friendship among peoples. Thank you for your letter. I wish you all the best in your young life. Y. Andropov

From Quiz Hitler vs Roosevelt

Answer: 33 days later on March 4

Roosevelt became US president on March 4, 1933. The 21st amendment to the Constitution was ratified that year and changed the date of the president's term to start on January 20 but didn't take effect until the following term. Thus Roosevelt's first term was shorter than his second and third because it lasted 43 days fewer than four years.

From Quiz Follow That Fellow

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, the US President during the American Civil War, died on April 15th 1865, after being shot in the head whilst attending a play at Ford's Theatre the previous evening. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, an actor who opposed the abolition of slavery, was killed 11 days later by a Union Army soldier. Lincoln's address at the dedication of the cemetery for the soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg is now one of the best-known speeches in American history. With the opening line "four score and seven years ago" he linked the struggles of the Civil War to the founding principles of the United States of America, set out in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy were the other US Presidents to have been assassinated up to the end of the twentieth century. In total, during this period eight US Presidents died in office: four were assassinated and four died of natural causes.

From Quiz World Leaders, Advanced Placement (AP) Edition

Answer: 610 CE

The revelations were published in a book known as the Koran, which was the basis of Islam. 476 was the fall of Western Rome, 1453 was the fall of Constantinople, and 313 is when the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

From Quiz Left or Right Wing?

Answer: Left

Palme was a social-democratic politician at heart. In Sweden the Social Democratic Party (SAP) finds its political position on the centre-left. Palme served two terms as the prime minister of Sweden. The first stint ran from October 1969 to the same month in 1976, while the second term was tragically cut short due to his aforementioned assassination, running from October 1982 to February 1986.

From Quiz The Running Man

Answer: William E Miller

William Miller was a seven term US Congressman from Albany New York and a Conservative Republican. When Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater selected Miller to be his running mate against Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 Presidential election, a national chorus of "who is that?" followed. Miller was rarely seen on the campaign trail and proved to be of little interest to the press. Goldwater/Miller lost to Johnson/Humphrey by what was then the largest margin in history. Goldwater lost the electoral vote 486-52 and the popular vote 61.1% to 38.5%. In the aftermath of the crushing defeat, Miller dropped out of elective politics and returned to the life of a country lawyer. In 1975 credit card company American Express began an innovative marketing campaign to draw attention to its charge card. In one of the most famous commercials, an older man in a suit asks the question "Do you know who I am? I ran for the Vice President of the United States in 1964." Mr. Miller then proceeds to say that anyone carrying the Am Ex card would get instantly recognized. The scene fades with the charge card typing his name. Miler again returned to blissful anonymity and died in 1983 at the age of 69.

From Quiz Women Heads of State

Answer: India

She was the Prime Minister of India from 1966-1977 and from 1980-1984.

From Quiz The Powers That B

Answer: Tony Blair

When Tony Blair became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1997, he already held positions as the First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party, and Minister for the Civil Service. Winning the election in 1997, 2001, and 2005, he became the longest serving prime minister of the Labour Party at that time. In 2007, he resigned from all his political positions.

From Quiz A-Z of Alliterative World Leaders

Answer: Santiago

Arturo Alessandri first came to power in 1920 as part of the Liberal Alliance, defeating his conservative opposition Luis Barros Borgono despite losing the popular vote. As his time in power progressed he struggled with a heavily conservative congress, not enabling him to enforce any of the laws he wanted to pass and so he eventually resigned in 1924 and sought asylum in the US embassy. From this point on the country was under the rule of a military Junta known as the September Junta. However, not all members of the Junta agreed with the way the country was being run and so in a coup in January 1925 an interim liberal president, Pedro Dartnell, was appointed, until the return of Alessandri in March 1925. On his return to power he drafted a new constitution but despite this being passed in September 1925 he resigned again in October before finally resuming the position of president in 1932. He served out a normal 6-year term before losing power to Pedro Aguirre Cerda of the Radical Party in December 1938.

From Quiz Political World Tour

Answer: Finland

The world's first female members of Parliament where Finnish as a result of the 1907 elections when 19 females members took their seats in the Parliament of Finland. Australia was the second country to give women the right to vote in 1902 then Norway in 1913 and Denmark 1915.

From Quiz World Leaders

Answer: Christian Democratic Union

Angela Merkel was the German Chancellor from November 2005. In 2007 she was President of the European Council.

From Quiz Name the Leader

Answer: Neville Chamberlain

Chamberlain served as prime minister from 1937 until May 1940 when Winston Churchill took the reigns of power.

From Quiz The Powers Behind the Thrones

Answer: Jezebel

'Jezebel' has entered the English language as a byword for an evil, shameless or promiscuous woman. As recorded in Kings, she fostered, promoted, supported and led the worship of Baal in Israel; and as Elijah prophesied, when she died her body was eaten by dogs - only her head and hands remained. Delilah - another enduring name, meaning a femme fatale (alluring, treacherous) - betrayed Samson to the Philistines. Jael was the woman who killed Sisera, and Bathsheba was King David's famous mistress and later wife.

From Quiz Historically Inadequate

Answer: George A. Custer

Custer was undoubtedly a brave man; perhaps too brave. He had a good battle record in the Civil War, and up to this point in the Indian Wars. Had he had a greater respect for his enemies, he might have done better. (And also, had he properly valued the accurate information his scouts reported; and had he refrained from dividing his forces in hostile territory, and from assuming that his own battle plan would go unchallenged.) In the end he, and every man under his direct command, were wiped out at the Little Big Horn. J.E.B. Stuart was a Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War. McClellan is best remembered for the McClellan saddle. Crook delivered an average performance in the Apache Wars.

From Quiz Famous Politicians Who Ride Harleys

Answer: Ann Richards

She got her first motorcycle license at the age of 60. When Harley Davidson representatives heard her make a comment about getting her motorcycle license, they gave her a Harley motorcycle for her birthday. She once said, "I thought I needed to do something kind of jazzy".

From Quiz Take Me To Your Leader

Answer: Konstantin Chernenko

Konstantin Chernonko was 72 when he succeeded Andropov and only lived for a further thirteen months after becoming the leader of the USSR. His demise led to Mikhail Gorbachev's accession. Brezhnev had ruled from 1964 until 1982 and was Andropov's precedessor.

From Quiz Leaders of Nations

Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Lenin returned from exile in Switzerland and overthrew the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution (which actually occurred in November 1917) and is often referred to simply as the Russian Revolution.

From Quiz Leaders of the Guild

Answer: Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was born in Kensington Palace London on 24 May 1819 and died on 22 January 1901. After her uncle William IV died in 1837 she became the Queen of England and reigned for 63 years until her death in 1901. Victoria disliked children but had nine of her own who went on to produce 37 great-grandchildren. Even though Victoria was a strong and stubborn woman, she was dependent on the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne to help her with her decisions. When she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg in 1840 he became her main advisor on decision making. This question has been crafted by Soozy_Woozy.

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