Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Politics

1. Who was united nation's first general secretary

A) Dag Hammarskjöld

B) U Thant

C) Trygve lie

D) Ban Ki-moon

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2. Who was the founder of the Irish political party Sinn Fein?

A) Patrick Pearse

B) Arthur Griffith

C) Maud Gonne

D) Gerry Adams

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3. The system of racial segregation in south africa was called _____

A) Apartheid

B) Jim Crow

C) Bantustan policy

D) Colonialism

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4. Who was the first president whose mother was eligible to vote for him

A) George Washington

B) Franklin delano roosevelt

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) John F. Kennedy

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5. Winston Churchill married in 1908. What was his wife's Christian name

A) Elizabeth

B) Clementine

C) Mary

D) Alice

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6. Who was the first Chancellor of the German Federal Republic

A) Willy Brandt

B) Konrad adenauer

C) Ludwig Erhard

D) Helmut Kohl

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7. Which British statesman, Minister of Labour in the National Government 1940-45, became Foreign Secretary in 1945

A) Anthony Eden

B) Clement Attlee

C) Herbert Morrison

D) Ernest Bevin

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8. Which Labour politician did Aneurin Bevan call "a dessicated calculating machine"

A) Harold Wilson

B) Hugh gaitskell

C) James Callaghan

D) Roy Jenkins

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9. Who was assassinated by her own bodyguard in 1984

A) Margaret Thatcher

B) Indira Ghandi

C) Benazir Bhutto

D) Golda Meir

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10. Who was the Prime Minister of Malta between 1971 and 1984

A) Dom Mintoff

B) George Borg Olivier

C) Lawrence Gonzi

D) Karmenu Micallef

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11. In which country was Lord Beaverbrook born

A) United Kingdom

B) United States

C) Canada

D) Ireland

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12. Who was dictator of Spain from 1937 to 1975

A) Miguel Primo de Rivera

B) Francisco Franco

C) Juan Carlos I

D) José Antonio Primo de Rivera

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13. Mary Robinson became president of Ireland in which year

A) 1988

B) 1990

C) 1989

D) 1995

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14. Who was the 31st president of the U.S.

A) Calvin Coolidge

B) Herbert c hoover

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) Grover Cleveland

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15. Habib Ibn Ali Bourguiba became president of which country in 1957, was re-elected three times before being made Life President in 1975

A) Tunisia

B) Egypt

C) Morocco

D) Algeria

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16. Who was Prime Minister at the start of World War One

A) Asquith

B) Lloyd George

C) Stanley Baldwin

D) Winston Churchill

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17. Who succeeded winston churchill as prime minister of england

A) Clement Attlee

B) Anthony eden

C) Harold Macmillan

D) Harold Wilson

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18. Who was Margret Thatcher?

A) Leader of the Labour Party

B) Queen of the United Kingdom

C) Prime Minister of Great Britan

D) Chancellor of the Exchequer

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19. From which prison in South Africa was Nelson Mandela released

A) Pollsmoor Prison

B) Robben Island

C) Victor verster

D) Pretoria Central Prison

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20. What nationality was Boutros Boutros Ghali, once the Secretary General of the United Nations

A) Egyptian

B) Lebanese

C) Syrian

D) Moroccan

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21. Who succeeded tommy douglas as leader of the new democratic party

A) Tommy Douglas

B) Ed Broadbent

C) David

D) Alexa McDonough

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22. Salvador Allende former president of Chile was assassinated in what year

A) 1969

B) 1972

C) 1973

D) 1974

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23. Who succeeded U Thant as Secretary General of the United Nations

A) Kurt waldheim

B) Boutros Boutros-Ghali

C) Kofi Annan

D) Ban Ki-moon

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24. When was nelson mandela released from robben island

A) 1989

B) 1991

C) 1990

D) 1993

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25. U.S. President, Herbert C. _________.

A) Harrison

B) Jefferson

C) Washington

D) Hoover

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26. How many times was franklin roosevelt elected president

A) Three

B) Five

C) Four

D) Six

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27. She was the first woman premier of Israel.

A) Golda Meir

B) Shulamit Aloni

C) Tzipi Livni

D) Dalia Itzik

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28. He allowed the bugging of the Democratic Committee headquarters.

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) Richard Nixon

C) Gerald Ford

D) John F. Kennedy

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29. Who Lead The British Labour Party Before Harold Wilson?

A) Clement Attlee

B) Hugh Gaitskell

C) Neil Kinnock

D) Ramsay MacDonald

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30. `Expletive Deleted' came into fashion as a result of the publication of the transcript of what?

A) The Pentagon Papers

B) The Zimmerman Telegram

C) The Watergate Tapes

D) The Nuremberg Trials transcripts

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31. Who is "The Iron Lady"?

A) Indira Gandhi

B) Margaret Thatcher

C) Angela Merkel

D) Theresa May

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32. Who Preceded Mao Tse-Tung?

A) Sun Yat-sen

B) Deng Xiaoping

C) Chiang Kai-Chek

D) Mao Zedong

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33. What Office Did Churchill Hold For The Longest Continous Period?

A) First Lord of the Admiralty

B) Chancellor of the Exchequer

C) Home Secretary

D) Prime Minister

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34. Whom Did Neil Kinnock Succeed As Leader Of The Labour Party?

A) Harold Wilson

B) Hugh Gaitskell

C) Jeremy Corbyn

D) Michael Foot

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35. Who Was French President From 1969 Until 1974

A) Charles de Gaulle

B) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

C) François Mitterrand

D) Georges Pompidou

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