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Quiz about Identify the World Leader 2004 Part I

Identify the World Leader 2004 - Part I Quiz

Choose the name of the person who matches the description.

A multiple-choice quiz by clg18057. Estimated time: 4 mins.

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clg18057

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198,914

Updated
Nov 08 23

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Question 1 of 10

1. Due to the landslide victory of the Labour Party in the 1997 British General Election, this 43 year old son of a barrister and lecturer became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. Hint

Tony Blair

John Major

Margaret Thatcher

Neville Chamberlain

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Question 2 of 10

2. This Parisian, born on November 29, 1932, was elected President of the French Republic on May 7, 1995. As President, he was also an ex-officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Hint

Nicolas Sarkozy

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

F�lix Faure

Jacques Chirac

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Question 3 of 10

3. This graduate of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University became the 20th President of the LDP and Prime Minister of Japan in 2001. Hint

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Makiko Tanaka

Akira Kurosawa

Junichiro Koizumi

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Question 4 of 10

4. On December 7, 2004, this man, who is fluent in Pashto, Dari, English, Urdu, and speaks French, was inaugurated as Afghanistan's first elected President. Hint

Hamid Karzai

Pervez Musharraf

Ghazi al-Yawer

Mohammad Zahir Shah

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Question 5 of 10

5. This sports enthusiast won the sambo (a Russian style of self-defense) championships of St Petersburg several times and became Master of Sports, first in sambo and later in judo, before being elected as the 2nd president of Russia on March 26, 2000. Hint

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhail Khodorkovskii

Vladimir Putin

Viktor Yushchenko

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Question 6 of 10

6. The election of this Chancellor on September 27, 1998 signaled a changing of the guard, for he became the first postwar German leader who was too young to remember World War II. Hint

Edmund Stoiber

Helmut Kohl

Gerhard Schroeder

Horst K�hler

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Question 7 of 10

7. This 11th Prime Minister of Israel, elected in 2001, is considered by many Israelis to be a strong leader battling terrorism. Many critics, however, particularly in the Arab world, refer to him as "the Butcher of Beirut" and have sought his prosecution as a war criminal. Hint

Ehud Barak

Ariel Sharon

Yitzak Rabin

Shimon Peres

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Question 8 of 10

8. This man, elected President of China by the National People's Congress in March 2003, served as party chief in the 1980s in Guizhou and Tibet, where he oversaw crackdowns on pro-independence protests. Hint

Yao Ming

Jiang Zemin

Hu Jintao

Tenzin Gyatso

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Question 9 of 10

9. Sworn in as the 14th Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004, this head of the Congress Party, whose policies as Finance Minister in the 1990s reformed the Indian economy and brought the country back from looming bankruptcy, spent years on the faculty of Punjab University and the prestigious Delhi School of Economics. Hint

Manmohan Singh

Sonia Gandhi

Shri Atal Bihara Vajpayee

Vijay Singh

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Question 10 of 10

10. This politician, who became Prime Minister of Australia on March 11, 1996, had been appointed Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs in 1975 at the age of 36 and subsequently served as Minister for Special Trade Negotiations and as Treasurer of the Commonwealth for over five years. Hint

Paul Keating

John Howard

Nancy Wake-Forward

Douglas Mawson

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Tony Blair

Thatcher was the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Major was PM from 1990 to 1997, Chamberlain from 1937 to 1940.

2. This Parisian, born on November 29, 1932, was elected President of the French Republic on May 7, 1995. As President, he was also an ex-officio Co-Prince of Andorra.

Answer: Jacques Chirac

Sarkozy was appointed head of France's ruling party (Union for a Popular Movement) in November 2004, positioning him to run for the presidency in 2007. Faure was President of France from 1895 till he died on February 16, 1899 while making love to his mistress, Marguerite Steinheil. Raffarin became the Prime Minister of France in 2002.

3. This graduate of the Faculty of Economics at Keio University became the 20th President of the LDP and Prime Minister of Japan in 2001.

Answer: Junichiro Koizumi

Sakamoto is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor. Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter, whose films include the acclaimed Seven Samurai. Tanaka is a Japanese politician and the daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

4. On December 7, 2004, this man, who is fluent in Pashto, Dari, English, Urdu, and speaks French, was inaugurated as Afghanistan's first elected President.

Answer: Hamid Karzai

Al-Yawer was appointed in 2004 as the interim President of Iraq. General Musharraf became ruler of Pakistan in 1999 following a bloodless coup and assumed the Presidency in 2001. Zahir Shah was the last King of Afghanistan, ruling from 1933 to 1973.

Answer: Vladimir Putin

Khodorkovskii is the former chief of the Yukos oil giant, who was charged with fraud and tax evasion in 2004. Yushchenko has served as a Prime Minister of Ukraine, leader of the Our Ukraine (Nasha Ukrayina) political coalition, and was the main opposition candidate in the October-November 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Yeltsin served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 2000.

6. The election of this Chancellor on September 27, 1998 signaled a changing of the guard, for he became the first postwar German leader who was too young to remember World War II.

Answer: Gerhard Schroeder

Kohl served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. K�hler was narrowly elected President of Germany by the Federal Assembly on May 23, 2004. Stoiber became Minister-President of Bavaria in 1993 and was the main candidate of the CDU/CSU for the parliamentary elections of 2002, which were won by the SPD candidate Schroeder.

Answer: Ariel Sharon

Barak served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. Rabin was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1992, received the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with then Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and was assassinated by a gunman in central Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995. Peres then served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defense from November 1995 until the May 1996 elections.

Answer: Hu Jintao

Jiang Zemin served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002. Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth Dalai Lama. Yao began playing for the NBA's Houston Rockets in the position of center in 2002.

Answer: Manmohan Singh

Singh was re-elected in 2009, making him the 15th Prime Minister as well. Vajpayee was Prime Minister of India from 1998 to 2004. As head of the Congress party, Gandhi seemed set to become Prime Minister, but declined the post after the 2004 election. Vijay Singh (born in Fiji) is a golfer on the PGA tour who has won several Major tournaments.

Answer: John Howard

Keating was Prime Minister of Australia from 1991-1996. Born in Sydney, Wake-Forward trained in England as a spy and was one of the most decorated women in WWII. Mawson was Australia's most famous Antarctic explorer.

Source: Author clg18057

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