Women World Leaders Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ireland

In the 1990s, the people of Ireland elected two women Presidents in a row, both named Mary. MARY Robinson was elected president of Ireland in 1990 and served until 1997, when she became UN Commissioner for Human Rights and Assistant Secretary General.

Her successor was MARY McAleese who, in 1997, became the first person from Northern Ireland to be elected president of Ireland. The other three countries also had women presidents (but not two in a row before Ireland): Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister of India, Megawati Sukarnoputri was President of Indonesia, and Vigdis Finnbogadottir (President of Iceland).

Answer: Indira Gandhi

In 1984, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her own bodyguards. She was known as a politically savvy statesman, but also an authoritarian who did not easily tolerate dissent. As prime minister of India, Gandhi led the largest democracy in the world. Contrary to common misconception, Indira Gandhi was not related to the Indian political and spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

Kim Campbell was Prime Minister of Canada from June to November of 1993, the first woman to hold that role.

Milka Planinc was Communist Federal Prime Minister of Yugoslavia in the 1980s - the first female premier of a communist country.

Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was the first woman PM of a Muslim nation and was in power from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. She too was assassinated, but in 2007.

Answer: True

Here are a couple of popular quotes from the quick-witted Margaret Thatcher:
"If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

Answer: Iceland - 1980 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir

Halonen of Finland, Vike-Freiberga of Latvia, and Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua were the first women presidents of their respective nations; however, Vigdis Finnbogadottir was the first in the world.

In 1980, Finnbogadottir won the popular election over three male opponents, then went on to lead Iceland for 16 years (making her, at the time, Iceland's longest serving president).

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia was actually elected in 1999, not 1929.

President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua can lay claim to the title of first woman President in the Western Hemisphere.

Answer: zero

During the 20th century, there were no women Presidential nominees from either the Democratic or the Republican party. Geraldine Ferraro came closest as a Democrat in 1984, when she ran for Vice President with Presidential nominee Walter Mondale. The first woman to gain the nomination of one of the two major parties was Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton in 2016, who lost to the Republican Donald Trump.

Answer: All three of these

All three leaders bore the nickname "Iron Lady" or "Iron Woman." The Soviet Union tagged Margaret Thatcher with the name even before she became Prime Minister, because of her strong anti-communist views.
Not only was Mary Eugenia Charles the first woman Prime Minister of Dominica, but she was also that Caribbean island nation's first female attorney.

Answer: True

True. Golda Mabovitz (who later changed her surname to Meir, Hebrew for "burns brightly) was born in Kiev, Ukraine (at the time part of the Russion Empire), emigrated at age 8 to the U.S. where she became a naturalized citizen, then moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Israel where she became a leader in the Zionist movement and eventual prime minister (in 1969).

Answer: 2006

Liberia is a country which was founded in the late 1800s, in part, by freed American slaves.

Answer: Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Sri Lanka

Sirimavo Bandarankaike became the world's first woman Prime Minister in 1960. She died during her third term at the age of 84.
Song Quingling of China was also one of the first women acting heads of State. She shared the post of Chair of the Republic with fellow Vice Chairperson, Dong Biw (a man) from 1968 to 1972.
Dr. Angela Dorothea Merkel was sworn in as the first woman Chancellor of Germany on November 22, 2005.
Golda Meir became the fourth President of Israel in 1969, and served until 1974.

Answer: Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996. Like several women world leaders, Bhutto was educated in the United States, where she won admission to Harvard's Radcliffe College at the young age of 16.
-Tarja Kaarina Halonen was elected president of Finland in 2000.
-Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias was the first woman president of Panama, serving from 1999 to 2004.
Dr. Sabine Bergmann-Pohl was the first woman and last acting Head of State of East Germany before Germany's reunification.