Clerics in Politics

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1. I became a familiar figure on the international scene in the 1960s when I became the first president of a Mediterranean country. Makarios III Georgias Grivas Nikos Sampson Constantine Karamanlis

2. This Methodist minister served in the largely ceremonial post of President of a newly independent African country from 1980-87. Cannan Banana Ndabaningi Sitole Abel Muzorewa Robert Mugabe

3. The Rev Ian Paisley has been at the forefront of Northern Ireland politics for the past 35 years. Which party does he lead? Ulster Unionists Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Conservatives Sinn Fein

4. This well known Baptist minister was a nominee for the Democratic candidate in the US presidential elections of 1984 and 1988. Rev Billy Graham Rev Martin Luther King Rev Jesse Jackson Rev Ralph Abernathy

5. This cleric was a leading character in Dumas swashbuckling tale of "The Three Musketeers" Cardinal Richlelieu Cardinal Thomas Wolsey Cardinal Jules Mazarin Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty

6. Pope Julius II is remembered as the pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine chapel and laid the foundation stone of the present day St Peter’s Basilica. However, as was the custom at this time he was intimately involved in secular affairs and was known as the ‘______________ Pope’. Political Majestic Imperial Warrior

7. This pope’s name became a byword for the debased standards of the secular popes of the Renaissance Rodrigo Borgia Niccolo Machiavelli Giovanni de Medici Michael Corleone

8. ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’ Who was the priest? Thomas Cromwell Thomas Aquinas Thomas Becket Thomas More

9. This ardent Palestinian nationalist was appointed Mufti of ___________ at the time of the British mandate in Palestine. Bethlehem Amman Jericho Jerusalem

10. After spending many years in exile I returned to my homeland in triumph and set up a Theocratic State. Who am I? Ayatollah Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ali Khameini Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Shapour Bakthiar