Name the Leader

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was prime minister of the United Kingdom when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939? Benjamin Disraeli Winston Churchill Neville Chamberlain Edward Heath

2. Who was emperor of the Roman Empire when Rome burned in 64AD? Marcus Aurelius Galba Nero Titus

3. Who was the king of England when one of the great documents in history, the Magna Carta, was signed in 1215? Henry II John Elizabeth I Richard III

4. Who was Czar of Russia when Napoleon invaded in 1812, resulting in a costly defeat for the French? Peter I the Great Alexander I Catherine I Nicholas II

5. Who was the president of the United States when South Carolina seceded from the Union in 1860, setting into motion the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War? Rutherford B. Hayes Andrew Jackson James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln

6. Who was the prime minister of Canada when Canadian troops played an important part in the liberation of the Netherlands during World War II? William Lyon Mackenzie King Arthur Meighen Sir John A. Macdonald John George Diefenbaker

7. Who was on the throne in Hawaii when the monarchy was overthrown in 1893? King Kalakaua King Kamehameha I Queen Liliuokalani King Lunalilo

8. Who was Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis that very nearly led to nuclear war between the USA and USSR in 1962 when the Soviets were setting up nuclear missiles in Cuba? Joseph Stalin Boris Jeltsin Leonid Brezhnev Nikita Khrushchev

9. Who was Pharaoh of ancient Egypt during the Battle of Kadesh against the Hittite Empire in approximately 1274 BC? Khufu Apophis Tutankhamen Ramses II

10. Who was prime minister of Israel during the Six Day War in 1967? David Ben-Gurion Menachem Begin Golda Meir Levi Eshkol