World Leaders Trivia

61. During the Second World War, he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. Who later served as the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961?

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 3

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower (1890 -1969) aka "Ike" served in two World Wars in the 20th century. After WWII, he served as Army Chief of Staff from 1945 to 1948 and as the first Supreme Commander of NATO from 1951 to 1952. During his administration, he provided financial support for the new state of Vietnam, supported military coups in Iran and Guatemala to change the regimes, and authorized the formation of NASA. He approved the Bay of Pigs invasion which was carried out by John F. Kennedy.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 2

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) served as the British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century. After gaining power in 1979, she implemented economic policies to reverse high unemployment caused by the ongoing recession during the Winter of Discontent. One policy was to privatize state-owned enterprises to reduce the influence of the trade unions, although the ongoing recession and rising unemployment caused her to lose some support. In 1982, she regained much support for overseeing the victory over Argentina in the Falkland Islands conflict, as well as a recovering economy. In 1984, she survived an assassination attempt by IRA terrorists and in 1987 was elected for a third term, although problems within her own party weakened her position, as did her introduction of the unpopular "poll tax". In November 1990, she resigned as head of the government and party leader.

From Quiz 20th-Century World Leaders Part 1

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th American President from 1913 to 1921. He did not want to be involved in war, but had to declare war on Germany after the German U boat sank RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915. The sinking changed the public opinion of the American people, resulting in the American entry into First World War. After the War, President Wilson proposed the League of Nations, the first world organization to main world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920.

From Quiz Lord of the Flies

Answer: He died of pneumonia.

In 1841, William Henry Harrison became the ninth president of the United States. His inauguration speech lasted a whopping two hours in cold and rainy conditions. He contracted a cold, which later developed into pneumonia. He died from the illness just 32 days after he became president. His wife, Anna Harrison was preparing to leave their home in Ohio to move to Washington D.C. when she heard the news that her husband had died.

From Quiz She Rules

Answer: Erna Solberg

Erna Solberg was born in Bergen in 1961. She studied sociology, political sciences, statistics and economics at the University of Bergen. Solberg joined the Conservative Party and was first elected to the Storting (parliament) in 1989. From 2001 until 2005, Solberg was Minister of Local Government and Regional Development. In this function she vented anti-immigration sentiments, which earned her the nickname "Jern Erna" ("Iron Erna"). But truth is that during the period 2001-2005 more immigrants were accepted in Norway than in the period 2005-2013 under a socialist-green government. After eight years of opposition, the Conservative Party won the 2013 election and Solberg ascended to the function of Prime Minister. In 2017 her party won the elections once again, and so Solberg remained Prime Minister. Harald V is King of Norway since 1991.

From Quiz Interesting Trivia about World Leaders

Answer: Mohandas

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born 2 October 1869. Mohandas means "servant of Mohana" (Mohana is one of the Hindu gods). Aditya means "sun" or "beginning" Vivaan means "the first rays of the sun" Aarav means "peaceful and wisdom"

From Quiz Sliding Rulers

Answer: Willem III of the Netherlands

Willem was born in 1817 and was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1849 until his death in 1890. He was opposed to constitutional changes brought in by his father and several times as king contemplated abdicating, first in favour of his younger brother, and then in favour of his eldest son. He was what might nowadays be described as "a ladies man". He had numerous affairs, though still found time to have four legitimate children by two wives. By the time of his death, his three sons had predeceased him. That left Wilhelmina to be crowned Queen of the Netherlands and she ruled from 1890 to 1948. However the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg could only be ruled through the male line and the title went to Willem's 17th cousin, once removed.

From Quiz Hitler vs Roosevelt

Answer: 18 days later on April 30

Hitler died on April 30 when it was apparent that the war would be lost. He had gotten married the day before, and he and his wife both committed suicide in their Berlin bunker.

From Quiz Follow That Fellow

Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin served as Russian President from 1991 to 1999, resigning from the office on the eve of the Millennium, and handing the job over to his Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. His initial popularity soon waned as a severe ongoing economic crisis hit the country, leaving millions of people living in poverty. In fact, the recovery of the Russian economy didn't really begin until after Yeltsin had left office. Unfortunately he is now most often remembered for his failed policies and his increasing ill-health and erratic behaviour in later years. Mikhail Gorbachev was the last Soviet leader; Dmitry Medvedev was the third President of Russia, serving from 2008 to 2012; and Roman Abramovich was the billionaire Russian businessman who bought Chelsea Football Club in 2003.

From Quiz World Leaders, Advanced Placement (AP) Edition

Answer: Diocletian

Diocletian was Roman emperor from 284-305 CE. He also was known for persecuting Christians because their religion decreed that God should be first instead of the government. Remember kids, Diocletian "di-vided" the Roman empire in two because it was too vast to manage on its own.

From Quiz The Running Man

Answer: Adlai Stevenson

In 1948 Adlai Stevenson, a Liberal Democrat, was elected governor of Illinois. His administration of the state proved to be ambitious and combative as he was blocked by a majority Republican legislative opposition. Nevertheless, Stevenson attracted wide attention through his eloquent speeches and scholarly articles, urging restraint in the face of the hunt to label all liberals as Communists. Stevenson so impressed the Democratic party that he was nominated as the 1952 Democratic Presidential Candidate. Stevenson was savagely attacked as a pro-communist "intellectual" by conservatives, in particular Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Stevenson lost the 1952 election to Eisenhower by a significant margin (442 to 89 Electoral Votes. Though defeated, Stevenson was undaunted. He continued to attack the McCarthy red-baiting program and was vindicated in 1954. Stevenson maintained his place as leader of the Democratic party and ran against Eisenhower again in the presidential race of 1956. The US economy was booming, Eisenhower was popular and more charismatic than the cerebral "highbrow" Stevenson, and the 1956 election was not as close as 1952. Stevenson lost the electoral vote by 456 to 73. A strong supporter of John F Kennedy, Stevenson ended his political career as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, serving until his death on July 14, 1965.

From Quiz Women Heads of State

Answer: Sri Lanka

She was the world's first woman Prime Minister. She was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1960-1965, from 1970-1977, and from 1994-2000.

From Quiz The Powers That B

Answer: Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was the eleventh Pakistani prime minister, serving from 1988 to 1990 (her first term) and then from 1993-1996. Her father was the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When she was first elected in 1988, Benazir Bhutto became the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as the first woman to be elected leader of any Muslim state. Bakhtawar and Biliwal Bhutto are two of Benazir's children.

From Quiz A-Z of Alliterative World Leaders

Answer: Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto was born on the 21st of June 1953 and was the eldest child of former Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Zulfikar founded the democratic socialist Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in 1967, and served as its leader until his death in 1979. From 1979 until 1983 the party was led by his wife Nusrat before their daughter Benazir took over upon Nusrat's death. Benazir Bhutto was first elected into the position of prime minister in 1988 following a very large swing in voting towards the PPP and away from the military government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Throughout her first two years in power she struggled against the President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who still had the power to veto any policies put forward by the prime minister. In 1990, stories of corruption appeared in the media, discrediting Benazir Bhutto, and she was eventually dismissed by Khan in August of that year. Bhutto was elected for a second time in 1993, narrowly ousting Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League out of the position that he'd held since 1990. However, more charges of corruption again discredited Bhutto and she was dismissed by President Farooq Leghari in 1996. She went into exile in Dubai in 1998. She was attempting a return to power after having lived in exile for some years when she was assassinated in a motorcade in December 2007.

From Quiz Political World Tour

Answer: Warren G. Harding

Harding(29th President) died while in office. All of the other three were assassinated while in office. Lincoln (16th President -died 1865), Garfield (20th President - died 1881) and McKinley (25th President- died 1901). JFK was the other President (35th) to be assassinated in 1963 while in office.

From Quiz World Leaders

Answer: January 20, 2009

The 44th President of the USA became the first African American President after winning the 2008 presidential election.

From Quiz Name the Leader

Answer: Nero

The story goes that Nero supposedly played the fiddle when Rome burned, although there appears to be no truth to the story (not least because fiddles or violins did not exist in those days).

From Quiz Historically Inadequate

Answer: Neville Chamberlain

The Munich Agreement (between France, Germany, Britain and Italy) was an attempt to buy Hitler off by letting him have the Sudetenland - the economic and defensive mainstay region of Czechoslovakia - if Hitler would promise to be satisfied with that. Czechoslovakia (today the Czech Republic and Slovakia) was not consulted. On 30 September 1938 Neville Chamberlain announced to crowds outside Buckingham Palace that he had secured "peace for our time". In fact, Hitler regarded Chamberlain - and the Agreement - with contempt. Within six months Hitler had effectively annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia, and almost exactly 11 months after the Munich Agreement, on 1 September 1939, Hitler's Germany invaded Poland. Britain declared war on Germany, honouring their treaty with Poland (and by now realising that Hitler would have to be stopped by force), two days later, on the 3rd September, 1939. Asquith, MacDonald and Churchill all served as Prime Minister in the first half of the 20th Century.

From Quiz Pants on Fire!

Answer: Ronald Reagan

After claims made to Israeli Prime Minister Shamir that he had also taken photographs of the concentration camps, it was later discovered that while he was in the service, he had never even left his home. (As reported in the book "Reckoning With Reagan" by Michael Schaller.)

From Quiz Famous Politicians Who Ride Harleys

Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

He has owned a Harley Davidson and an Indian motorcycle. He rode bikes in three movies, "Raw Deal", "Terminator II" and "Terminator III". He had three goals as a kid: move to America, become an actor and marry a Kennedy. He accomplished all three goals.

From Quiz Take Me To Your Leader

Answer: Thabo Mbeki

Nelson Mandela's prison number was 46664 as he was the 466th prisoner in 1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46664_(number)) It is also the name of the charity set up by Nelson Mandela to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS. Surprisingly, his successor, Thabo Mbeki has suggested that there is no link between HIV and AIDS.

From Quiz Leaders of Nations

Answer: Mao Zedong

He is well known for the "Little Red Book", the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution". He established the People's Republic of China in 1949. It is widely claimed that he caused even more deaths than Stalin.

From Quiz The Last Emperor

Answer: Maximilian

Maximilian, a Habsburg prince was made Mexican Emperor by Napoleon III in 1861. He was executed by the troops of Mexican President Juarez in 1867. He was childless and adopted as heirs the children of the only other Mexican Emperor Agustin I(1822-1823) who, like Maximilian, was deposed and eventually executed(1824).

From Quiz Notable women politicians from around the globe

Answer: Clara Zetkin

Ms. Zetkin (1857-1933) turned into a staunch Communist after WWI. She died in the Soviet Union, in exile from the Nazis.

From Quiz World Leaders - The Missing Link

Answer: William IV

They are the British Monarchs of the 19th and 20th centuries. William IV of the House of Hanover was nicknamed the Sailor King because of his earlier career in the royal Navy.

From Quiz Doctors in Politics

Answer: Portugal

Dr Antonio Salazar ruled Portugal from 1932-68. Originally a professor of economics he started his political career when he became Minister of Finance after a military coup deposed the previous government. He managed a successful budget which put the country's finances in surplus. As Prime Minister he closely supervised the work of his ministers and successfully steered Portugal on a neutral path during the Spanish Civil War and WWII. After the war he tried to incorporate Portugal's extensive colonial holdings into the central government. This was difficult at a time of widespread de-colonisation and his decision to defend the colonies against the trend led to a series of long running guerrilla wars.

From Quiz Clerics in Politics

Answer: Cannan Banana

The cast of characters involved in the struggle for independence of Zimbabwe is replete with clerical figures. In an effort to end the long running bush war, the Smith regime appointed a transitional government with moderate Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United African National Council as prime minister. This was never going to work because of the exclusion of the guerrilla resistance organisations led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. This led to the Lancaster House agreement and new elections in 1980 which resulted in the resounding victory of Mugabe's ZANU PF. Mugabe became prime minister and appointed the Rev Canaan Banana, who had been a member of Muzorewa's transitional government, as president. President Banana, who passed a law in 1982 preventing citizens making a joke about his name, sought to bring the contending ZANU and ZAPU factions together. He fell from favour with Mugabe who took over the presidency himself in 1982. In 1997 he fled the country when he was charged with sodomy, received a 10 year suspended jail sentence and was defrocked. When he died in 2003 he was buried without the full honours due a former head of state. Rev Ndabaningi Sitole was a Methodist minister and founder of ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) who spent 10 years in prison under the Smith regime. He renounced violent resistance leading to the split with Mugabe who formed ZANU PF.

From Quiz Women World Leaders

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.

From Quiz World Leaders

Answer: United Kingdom

Nicknamed the Iron Lady, she was Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990. Her conservative outlook matched contemporaries Ronald Reagan (U.S.A) and Brian Mulroney (Canada).

From Quiz Historical European and North American Rulers

Answer: Kenneth I MacAlpin

Kenneth I MacAlpin began to rule both of these groups in 846 AD. James I was a member of the Stuart Line (1406-1437). John Balliol was King of Scots from 1292-1296. His abdication in 1296 led to the Second Interregnum which was from 1296-1306. William the Lion succeeded his brother Malcolm IV as King of Scotland in 1165.

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