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World Leaders & Heads of State Quiz
World Leaders & Heads of State · Hard
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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 13 questions in this World Leaders & Heads of State quiz
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Who was the first elected female President in the world?
- A. Corazon Aquino
- B. Indira Gandhi
- C. Michelle Bachelet
- D. Vigdis Finnbogadottir
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Who was the first President of an independent Kenya, previously imprisoned by the British for allegedly leading the Mau Mau rebellion?
- A. Jomo Kenyatta
- B. Julius Nyerere
- C. Kwame Nkrumah
- D. Patrice Lumumba
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Which Egyptian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 and became a massive symbol of Pan-Arab nationalism?
- A. Anwar Sadat
- B. Gamal Abdel Nasser
- C. Hosni Mubarak
- D. King Farouk
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Who was the first female head of government in the world?
- A. Margaret Thatcher
- B. Golda Meir
- C. Sirimavo Bandaranaike
- D. Indira Gandhi
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Which leader ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall?
- A. Nikita Khrushchev
- B. Erich Honecker
- C. Joseph Stalin
- D. Walter Ulbricht
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Who was the first President of independent Pakistan?
- A. Iskander Mirza
- B. Ayub Khan
- C. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- D. Liaquat Ali Khan
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Who was the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, assassinated in 1961 just months after taking office?
- A. Mobutu Sese Seko
- B. Laurent-Dsir Kabila
- C. Flix Tshisekedi
- D. Patrice Lumumba
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Who was the primary leader of Ghana's independence movement and its first Prime Minister and President?
- A. Jomo Kenyatta
- B. Kwame Nkrumah
- C. Julius Nyerere
- D. Nelson Mandela
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Which Liberian leader, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was the first elected female head of state in Africa?
- A. Joyce Banda
- B. Sahle-Work Zewde
- C. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- D. Samia Suluhu Hassan
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Which Malaysian Prime Minister holds the record as the world's oldest serving state leader, having returned to office in 2018 at the age of 92?
- A. Anwar Ibrahim
- B. Muhyiddin Yassin
- C. Mahathir Mohamad
- D. Najib Razak
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Who was the Prime Minister of Australia during World War II?
- A. Robert Menzies
- B. Arthur Fadden
- C. John Curtin
- D. Ben Chifley
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Who was the first President of Indonesia, leading the country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands?
- A. Sukarno
- B. Suharto
- C. Joko Widodo
- D. Megawati Sukarnoputri
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Who was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America, overthrown in Chile's 1973 coup?
- A. Che Guevara
- B. Salvador Allende
- C. Fidel Castro
- D. Augusto Pinochet