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Quiz about Political Quotes World Leaders

Political Quotes - World 'Leaders' Quiz

World 'leaders' are often quoted - both good and bad! Can you pick the politician responsible for the given quote?

A multiple-choice quiz by Engadine. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
Engadine

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
112,744

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
552

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which US President said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"? Hint

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which British Prime Minister described the role of the Foreign Secretary as being, "Forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion"? Hint

Sir Anthony Eden

Clement Attlee

Winston Churchill

Harold Macmillan

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Australian Prime Minister said, "Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it"? Hint

Ben Chifley

William McMahon

Harold Holt

Paul Keating

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which South American dictator said, "We have no political prisons, we have political internal exiles"? Hint

President Alfredo Stroessner

General Humberto Branco

General Pinochet

President Jorge Batlle

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who said, "He has not a single redeeming defect" about British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone? Hint

Earl Grey

Robert Peel

Benjamin Disraeli

Earl of Derby

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which European leader said, "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation and a politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service"? Hint

Margaret Thatcher

Adolf Hitler

John Major

Georges Pompidou

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which British Prime Minister said, "There are two problems in my life, the political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible"? Hint

Sir Anthony Eden

Neville Chamberlain

David Lloyd George

Sir Alec Douglas-Home

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which Australian Prime Minister said, "The Labor Party is a party of conviction, the Liberal Party is a party of convenience"? Hint

Paul Keating

William McMahon

Gough Whitlam

Bob Hawke

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which female leader said, "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman"? Hint

Mary Robinson

Indira Gandhi

Margaret Thatcher

Golda Meir

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which famous European leader said, "When people cease to complain, they cease to think"? Hint

Isabel Peron

Napoleon Bonaparte

Joseph Stalin

Attila the Hun

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which US President said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

The sixteenth President of the United States was born in Kentucky in 1809 and was undoubtedly one of the 'best' the States has seen in its history - you've only got to look at the Gettysburg Address to see why!

2. Which British Prime Minister described the role of the Foreign Secretary as being, "Forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion"?

Answer: Harold Macmillan

Born in 1894, Macmillan served in World War I. In 1951 he was a member of the Conservative government under Sir Anthony Eden as Minister for Housing. He was British Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963 and he died in 1986 at the age of 92 years.

3. Which Australian Prime Minister said, "Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it"?

Answer: Ben Chifley

Born in 1885 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Joseph Benjamin 'Ben' Chifley was Australian Prime Minister from 1945 to 1949. He died in 1951 leaving behind his wife Elizabeth, they had no children.

4. Which South American dictator said, "We have no political prisons, we have political internal exiles"?

Answer: General Pinochet

Chilean President General Augusto Pinochet, in power from 1973 to 1989 was guilty of torture, murder and terrorism; General Humberto Branco was Brazilian President from 1964 to 1967; Jorge Batlle, President of Uruguay from 1999; and Alfredo Stoessner was President of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989.

5. Who said, "He has not a single redeeming defect" about British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone?

Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

With little formal education, Disraeli quit legal studies to follow other pursuits which included publishing. Disraeli was Prime Minister of England in 1868 and then again from 1874 to 1880.

6. Which European leader said, "A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation and a politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service"?

Answer: Georges Pompidou

Pompidou was the second President of the Fifth French Republic, from 1969 until his death, in Paris, in 1974. He was instumental in negotiating the UK's entry into the European Union.

7. Which British Prime Minister said, "There are two problems in my life, the political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible"?

Answer: Sir Alec Douglas-Home

The first Peer to serve as Prime Minister, from 1963 to 1964, in the twentieth century, Sir Douglas-Home returned to the House of Lords in 1974. He died in 1995, aged 93.

8. Which Australian Prime Minister said, "The Labor Party is a party of conviction, the Liberal Party is a party of convenience"?

Answer: Paul Keating

Born in Paddington, an inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Paul Keating was the second longest serving Federal Treasurer in Australian Political history (eight years). Many were fond of referring to him as 'The Feral Treasure'!

9. Which female leader said, "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman"?

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

The longest serving Prime Minister for over a decade and a half, Baroness Thatcher was 'The Iron Lady' and she led her country from 1979 to 1990.

10. Which famous European leader said, "When people cease to complain, they cease to think"?

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Emperor of the French, he was born in Corsica and the rest, as they say, truly is history!

Source: Author Engadine

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