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10 Question World Quiz: Take Me To Your Leader | Government


All you have to do is match the the senior figure to their official residence.

A matching quiz by 480154st. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
480154st
Time
4 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
395,233
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
280
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. Gordon Brown  
  10, Downing Street
2. Jimmy Carter  
  Temple Trees
3. Park Geun-hye  
  3, Sutton Place
4. Lawrence Gonzi  
  Blue House
5. Jean Chretien  
  Bute House
6. Ranil Wickremesinghe  
  The Lodge
7. John Gorton  
  7, Race Course Road
8. Rajiv Gandhi  
  Villa Francia
9. Donald Dewar  
  The White House
10. Ban Ki-moon  
  24, Sussex Drive





Select each answer

1. Gordon Brown
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Park Geun-hye
4. Lawrence Gonzi
5. Jean Chretien
6. Ranil Wickremesinghe
7. John Gorton
8. Rajiv Gandhi
9. Donald Dewar
10. Ban Ki-moon

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Gordon Brown

Answer: 10, Downing Street

Brown became Prime Minister of UK in 2007, following the resignation of Tony Blair and served until 2010. Prior to that he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, who traditionally resides at 11, Downing Street, but Blair and Brown turned all that on its head.

When Blair was PM, he had a wife and family and so chose to live in number 11 as it is a larger property, leaving Brown to live at number 10. When Brown became PM, he originally moved out of number 10, to live at number 11, but this didn't last long and he moved back into number 10. Number 10 was gifted to the position of First Lord of the Treasury by George II in 1732, and since 1905 this position has also been held by the Prime Minister.
2. Jimmy Carter

Answer: The White House

As 39th President of USA, Carter succeeded Gerald Ford, taking office in 1977. Carter oversaw the Iran hostage crisis and the failed rescue mission which left eight U.S. service personnel dead, as well as co signing the SALT II agreement with Leonid Brezhnev of Soviet Union.

He also initiated the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea and, when he visited Nigeria in 1978, became the first president to make a state visit to Sub-Saharan Africa. The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. and in 1800, John Adams became the first President to live there.

It has been extensively remodelled and restored throughout the years and in 1961 was legally declared a museum by congress.
3. Park Geun-hye

Answer: Blue House

Park Geun-hye became the first woman to be President of South Korea in 2013. In 2016 she was impeached and in April 2018, she was sentenced to 24 years in prison after being found guilty of 16 out of 18 charges brought before her relating to abuse of power, bribery, coercion, and leaking government secrets.

The Blue House. also known as the pavilion of blue tiles and the house with the blue roof is actually not a single house, but a complex of buildings in Seoul. It was the site of the Governor-General's official residence during the Japanese colonial period, and following liberation in 1945, the president began using it as a residence.

The roof is covered by 150,000 Korean-style blue tiles, giving the building its distinctive appearance.
4. Lawrence Gonzi

Answer: Villa Francia

Lawrence Gonzi succeeded Edward Fenech Adami as Prime Minister of Malta in 2004 and between then and 2013 he oversaw great changes in the country as it began its journey into membership of the European Union. Under him, Malta adopted the Euro and signed into the Schengen Agreement which abolished border checks within Europe. Villa Francia was donated to the Maltese government in 1987 by William Francia and although it is the official residence of the Prime Minister, it is mainly used for receiving foreign dignitaries.
5. Jean Chretien

Answer: 24, Sussex Drive

Jean Chretien spent 10 years as Prime Minister of Canada between 1993 and 2003 and was the 18th out of 19 children born to his parents. He had suffered a Bell's palsy at age 12, which left one side of his face partially paralysed and he famously once remarked it meant he was the only politician who didn't "speak out of both sides" of his mouth. 24, Sussex has been the official home of the Prime Minister of Canada since 1951 with Louis St. Laurent the first PM to live there.

A notable moment in its history also involves Chretien, when in 1995, André Dallaire scaled the fence and broke in, being found outside Chretien's bedroom by his wife.

While his wife locked the door, Chretien grabbed an Inuit stone carving of a loon to defend himself if necessary. Luckily it wasn't needed and RCMP arrested Dallaire.
6. Ranil Wickremesinghe

Answer: Temple Trees

Sri Lanka just can't get enough of Ranil Wickremesinghe, having elected him as Prime Minister in 1993, then again in 2001 and again in 2015. At the end of October 2018, President Maithripala Sirisena ordered Wickremesinghe to leave Temple Trees as he had appointed Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister. Temple Trees was purchased by the British Government of Ceylon and was used by the Colonial Secretary until 1948 when it became the official residence of the Prime Minister of Ceylon with D. S. Senanayake being the first PM to make use of it.
7. John Gorton

Answer: The Lodge

Liberal Party leader John Gorton was Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He initiated an independent Australian film industry and provided funding for the arts but came under criticism for remaining in the Vietnam war, which was a commitment he had inherited.

Although he did start pulling Australian troops out it was seen as too little, too late and he was depicted as a foolish, beer drinking, serial womaniser in the press. The Lodge can be found at 5 Adelaide Avenue in Deakin and although it has been the official residence of the PM since 1927, several in the position have chosen to live elsewhere, including, recently John Howard who was PM between 1996 and 2007.
8. Rajiv Gandhi

Answer: 7, Race Course Road

Rajiv Gandhi became Prime Minister of India after the assassination of his mother, Indira, in 1984. He was the sixth Prime Minister as well as being the youngest, aged just 40.

Gandhi did not have the easiest time in office, having to deal with violent mobs attacking the Sikh Community in the country as well as the Bhopal gas leak disaster which killed between 4,000 and 16,000 people. He was assassinated in 1991 whilst election campaigning.

7, Race Course Road, also known as 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, is a complex of five bungalows on 12 acres of land. Rajiv Gandhi was the first Prime Minister to reside here and his successor V.P. Singh designated it the official residence of the position. In 2016, the name of Race Course Road was changed to Lok Kalyan Marg, often abbreviated to LKM.
9. Donald Dewar

Answer: Bute House

Dewar was a former Secretary of State for Scotland in Tony Blair's government and was elected onto the first Scottish parliament in 1999, quickly becoming the first ever Scottish First Minister. He died of a brain hemorrhage while in office in 2000. Bute House is at 6 Charlotte Square in the New Town, Edinburgh and between 1970 and 1999 was the official residence of the Secretary of State for Scotland before becoming the First Minister's residence.

This means, of course that as Dewar went from one position to the other within ten days, he didn't have to move house.
10. Ban Ki-moon

Answer: 3, Sutton Place

Ban was South Korea's foreign minister between 2004 and 2006, when he was elected as the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations, taking up the position on January 1st 2007 and holding the position until 31st December 2016. During his time he dealt with challenges such as the Libyan Civil War, the war in Dafur and the civil war in Syria.

As Secretary-General of the United Nations, his official residence was 3, Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York, as it has been for each Secretary-General since Kurt Waldheim in 1972.

Other residents of Sutton Place have included Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford, Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury.
Source: Author 480154st

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