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World Leaders & Heads of State Quiz

World Leaders & Heads of State · Easy

20 questions · Unlimited attempts · Free online practice

World leaders and heads of state are the individuals who hold the highest executive power in their countries, shaping domestic policy and representing their nations internationally...

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All 20 questions in this World Leaders & Heads of State quiz
  1. Who was the Prime Minister of India during the 1971 war with Pakistan?

    • A. Rajiv Gandhi
    • B. Indira Gandhi
    • C. Jawaharlal Nehru
    • D. Morarji Desai
  2. Which authoritarian leader ruled Libya for over four decades before being overthrown and killed during the 2011 Arab Spring?

    • A. Hosni Mubarak
    • B. Saddam Hussein
    • C. Bashar al-Assad
    • D. Muammar Gaddafi
  3. Who was the first democratically elected President of Russia?

    • A. Mikhail Gorbachev
    • B. Boris Yeltsin
    • C. Vladimir Putin
    • D. Dmitry Medvedev
  4. Which leader gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech?

    • A. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • B. Jesse Jackson
    • C. Malcolm X
    • D. Barack Obama
  5. Who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917?

    • A. Leon Trotsky
    • B. Vladimir Lenin
    • C. Karl Marx
    • D. Joseph Stalin
  6. Which leader founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923?

    • A. Abdullah Gul
    • B. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
    • C. Celal Bayar
    • D. Ismet Inonu
  7. Which leader signed the Camp David Accords in 1978?

    • A. Gerald Ford
    • B. Richard Nixon
    • C. Jimmy Carter
    • D. Ronald Reagan
  8. Which leader was known as 'The Iron Lady'?

    • A. Golda Meir
    • B. Margaret Thatcher
    • C. Indira Gandhi
    • D. Angela Merkel
  9. Which world leader was known as 'El Comandante'?

    • A. Daniel Ortega
    • B. Fidel Castro
    • C. Hugo Chavez
    • D. Che Guevara
  10. Who became the Supreme Leader of North Korea in 2011 following the death of his father?

    • A. Kim Il-sung
    • B. Kim Jong-il
    • C. Kim Jong-nam
    • D. Kim Jong-un
  11. Which revolutionary leader served as the Prime Minister and later President of Cuba from 1959 to 2008?

    • A. Che Guevara
    • B. Fidel Castro
    • C. Ral Castro
    • D. Fulgencio Batista
  12. Which Canadian Prime Minister is the leader of the Liberal Party and the son of a former Prime Minister?

    • A. Stephen Harper
    • B. Jean Chrtien
    • C. Brian Mulroney
    • D. Justin Trudeau
  13. Which leader ordered the 'Great Leap Forward' in China?

    • A. Jiang Zemin
    • B. Deng Xiaoping
    • C. Mao Zedong
    • D. Zhou Enlai
  14. Which world leader coined the phrase 'Axis of Evil'?

    • A. George W. Bush
    • B. Condoleezza Rice
    • C. Dick Cheney
    • D. Tony Blair
  15. Which Ukrainian President, a former comedian and actor, led the country through the 2022 Russian invasion?

    • A. Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    • B. Petro Poroshenko
    • C. Viktor Yanukovych
    • D. Viktor Yushchenko
  16. Which leader is associated with 'Perestroika' meaning restructuring?

    • A. Leonid Brezhnev
    • B. Mikhail Gorbachev
    • C. Nikita Khrushchev
    • D. Yuri Andropov
  17. Which former KGB officer has served continuously as either President or Prime Minister of Russia since 1999?

    • A. Boris Yeltsin
    • B. Dmitry Medvedev
    • C. Mikhail Gorbachev
    • D. Vladimir Putin
  18. Who was the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand in modern times?

    • A. Jacinda Ardern
    • B. Jenny Shipley
    • C. Helen Clark
    • D. Ruth Richardson
  19. Who led the Cuban Revolution?

    • A. Fidel Castro
    • B. Fulgencio Batista
    • C. Che Guevara
    • D. Raul Castro
  20. Who was the last President of the Soviet Union?

    • A. Yuri Andropov
    • B. Mikhail Gorbachev
    • C. Konstantin Chernenko
    • D. Leonid Brezhnev