20th Century Political History Quiz

Answer: Tanzania

Answer: Thailand

King Bhumibol Adulyadeq of Thailand was born on 25th December 1927 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He was crowned king of Thailand on 5th May 1950. And no, he is not related to Yul Brynner or any other moviestar King of Siam.

Answer: Graca Machel

Myriam Makeba was an African singer born in 1932. She was exiled from South Africa because of her outspoken political views and settled in USA. After marrying militant leader Stokely Carmichael, she was declared unwelcome by the US government and moved to Guinea in 1969. Nadine Gordimer was a Member of the ANC and a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature who was born in 1926. Winnie Mandela was the second wife of Nelson Mandela, who divorced him in 1996. Graca Machel was the widow of Samora Machel, former president of Mozambique, who became Nelson Mandela's third wife on his 80th birthday.

Answer: 8

1. Calvin Coolidge 2. Herbert Clark Hoover 3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 4.Harry S. Truman 5.Dwight D. Eisenhower 6.John Fitzgerald Kennedy 7. Lyndon Baines Johnson 8. Richard Milhous Nixon

Answer: 30s

Answer: Mrs Bandaranaike

After the assasination of her husband in 1959, Mrs Bandaranaike led 2 coalition governments: 1960-65 and 1970-77. Margaret Hilda Thatcher was leader of the Conservative Party in the UK and became Prime Minister in 1979. Mary Robinson became President of the Irish Republic in 1990,and was succeeded by another woman, Mary McAleese.

Indira Gandhi, born in 1917, became PM of India in 1966 and was assasinated in 1984.

Answer: Joseph Desire Mobutu aka Mobutu Sese Seko

There is no proof Tshombe (1919-1969) was assasinated but he died in what were at least suspect circumstances. In 1967 his plane was hijacked.He was first jailed and then kept uncommunicado until his death in 1969.- Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961),founder of MNC National Congolese Movement. First Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo.

After a conflict between him and President Kasavubu , he was put under house arrest by Colonel Mobutu. Escaped, was recaptured , flown to Katanga where in February 1961 it was announced that he had been killed. - Mobutu ,born in 1930, studied in Brussels.Led army coup in 1960 against Lumumba. Died of cancer shortly after Kabila had taken over power.-Laurent Desire Kabila , born 1939 , installed himself as Head of State of Congo-Kinshasa.

He rejected the old name Zaire and called it 'Democratic Republic of the Congo'.Assassinated in January 2001.

Answer: Shaba

It was Mobutu who rebaptised Katanga into Shaba. East Kasai and Maniema are provinces of Congo.

Answer: Kenneth Kaunda

Apollo Milton Obote was President of Uganda from 1966 till 1971 and from 1980 till 1985.-Julius Kambaraye Nyerere (born in 1921) was first President of Tanzania from 1964 till 1985. He remained chairman of his Revolutionary Party of Tanzania until 1990.- Dr Hastings Banda (born in 1902) was PM of Nyassaland in 1961, then became PM of Malawi in 1964. Lifepresident in 1966. - Kenneth Kaunda was president of Zambia from 1964 till 1991.

Answer: Zimbabwe (ex-Southern Rhodesia)

Namibia: formerly South West Africa. Nyassaland: later called Malawi.- Northern Rhodesia: later called Zambia. Muzorewa won a clear majority of the seats allotted to blacks in the April 1997 election. He was unable to end warfare. In February 1980 there were new elections. Nkomo (ZAPU) won 20 seats. Muzorewa (UANC) won 3 seats. Winner was Robert Mugabe (ZANU ):57 seats.