“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

MCQs on World Leaders and Political Figures

Q. Who was the first President of the United States?

a) Thomas Jefferson

b) Abraham Lincoln

c) George Washington

d) John Adams

Answer: c) George Washington

Q. Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II?

a) Winston Churchill

b) Neville Chamberlain

c) Clement Attlee

d) Harold Macmillan

Answer: a) Winston Churchill

Q. Who is known as the “Iron Lady” of British politics?

a) Theresa May

b) Angela Merkel

c) Margaret Thatcher

d) Indira Gandhi

Answer: c) Margaret Thatcher

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of India?

a) Sonia Gandhi

b) Pratibha Patil

c) Indira Gandhi

d) Sarojini Naidu

Answer: c) Indira Gandhi

Q. Who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a) Joseph Stalin

b) Nikita Khrushchev

c) Leonid Brezhnev

d) Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer: b) Nikita Khrushchev

Q. Who was the first President of the People’s Republic of China?

a) Mao Zedong

b) Deng Xiaoping

c) Xi Jinping

d) Chiang Kai-shek

Answer: a) Mao Zedong

Q. Which South African leader won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993?

a) Nelson Mandela

b) Thabo Mbeki

c) Jacob Zuma

d) F.W. de Klerk

Answer: a) Nelson Mandela

Q. Who was the first Chancellor of unified Germany?

a) Konrad Adenauer

b) Willy Brandt

c) Angela Merkel

d) Helmut Kohl

Answer: d) Helmut Kohl

Q. Who was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century?

a) Winston Churchill

b) Harold Wilson

c) Margaret Thatcher

d) Tony Blair

Answer: c) Margaret Thatcher

Q. Who was the first President of the United States to be impeached?

 a) Richard Nixon

 b) Andrew Johnson

 c) Bill Clinton

 d) Donald Trump

 Answer: b) Andrew Johnson

Q. Who was the leader of the Indian independence movement?

 a) Jawaharlal Nehru

 b) Subhas Chandra Bose

 c) Mahatma Gandhi

 d) Sardar Patel

 Answer: c) Mahatma Gandhi

Q. Who was the President of the United States during the American Civil War?

 a) Thomas Jefferson

 b) Abraham Lincoln

 c) Ulysses S. Grant

 d) James Buchanan

 Answer: b) Abraham Lincoln

Q. Who was the first female Chancellor of Germany?

 a) Angela Merkel

 b) Hannelore Kraft

 c) Ursula von der Leyen

 d) Julia Klöckner

 Answer: a) Angela Merkel

Q. Who was the first African American President of the United States?

 a) Jesse Jackson

 b) Barack Obama

 c) Colin Powell

 d) Al Sharpton

 Answer: b) Barack Obama

Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?

 a) Yitzhak Rabin

 b) Menachem Begin

 c) David Ben-Gurion

 d) Golda Meir

 Answer: c) David Ben-Gurion

Q. Which leader is known for the policy of Perestroika and Glasnost?

 a) Leonid Brezhnev

 b) Yuri Andropov

 c) Mikhail Gorbachev

 d) Vladimir Putin

 Answer: c) Mikhail Gorbachev

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

 a) Theresa May

 b) Margaret Thatcher

 c) Angela Merkel

 d) Jacinda Ardern

 Answer: b) Margaret Thatcher

Q. Who was the first President of Turkey?

 a) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

 b) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

 c) İsmet İnönü

 d) Süleyman Demirel

 Answer: a) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Q. Who was the first black President of South Africa?

 a) Nelson Mandela

 b) Thabo Mbeki

 c) Jacob Zuma

 d) Cyril Ramaphosa

 Answer: a) Nelson Mandela

Q. Who was the founder of modern Turkey?

 a) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

 b) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

 c) İsmet İnönü

 d) Turgut Özal

 Answer: b) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Q. Who was the first female President of the Philippines?

 a) Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

 b) Corazon Aquino

 c) Imelda Marcos

 d) Maria Leonor Robredo

 Answer: b) Corazon Aquino

Q. Who was the first President of the Republic of India?

 a) Jawaharlal Nehru

 b) Rajendra Prasad

 c) S. Radhakrishnan

 d) Zakir Husain

 Answer: b) Rajendra Prasad

Q. Who was the first female President of Argentina?

 a) Eva Perón

 b) Isabel Perón

 c) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

 d) María Estela Martínez de Perón

 Answer: b) Isabel Perón

Q. Who was the President of France during World War I?

 a) Raymond Poincaré

 b) Georges Clemenceau

 c) Charles de Gaulle

 d) François Mitterrand

 Answer: a) Raymond Poincaré

Q. Who was the first Secretary-General of the United Nations?

 a) U Thant

 b) Dag Hammarskjöld

 c) Trygve Lie

 d) Kurt Waldheim

 Answer: c) Trygve Lie

Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?

 a) John Diefenbaker

 b) Pierre Trudeau

 c) Wilfrid Laurier

 d) John A. Macdonald

 Answer: d) John A. Macdonald

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan?

 a) Benazir Bhutto

 b) Fatima Jinnah

 c) Asma Jahangir

 d) Hina Rabbani Khar

 Answer: a) Benazir Bhutto

Q. Who was the President of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II?

 a) Herbert Hoover

 b) Franklin D. Roosevelt

 c) Harry S. Truman

 d) Dwight D. Eisenhower

 Answer: b) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Q. Who was the first President of the Republic of South Korea?

 a) Syngman Rhee

 b) Kim Il-sung

 c) Park Chung-hee

 d) Roh Moo-hyun

 Answer: a) Syngman Rhee

Q. Who was the first President of Ghana?

 a) Kwame Nkrumah

 b) Jerry Rawlings

 c) John Kufuor

 d) John Mahama

 Answer: a) Kwame Nkrumah

Q. Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany after World War II?

 a) Konrad Adenauer

 b) Willy Brandt

 c) Ludwig Erhard

 d) Helmut Kohl

 Answer: a) Konrad Adenauer

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Australia?

 a) Julia Gillard

 b) Margaret Thatcher

 c) Jacinda Ardern

 d) Helen Clark

 Answer: a) Julia Gillard

Q. Who was the first President of Brazil?

 a) Getúlio Vargas

 b) Juscelino Kubitschek

 c) Deodoro da Fonseca

 d) Dilma Rousseff

 Answer: c) Deodoro da Fonseca

Q. Who was the first female President of Liberia?

 a) Ruth Perry

 b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

 c) Jewel Taylor

 d) Leymah Gbowee

 Answer: b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Q. Who was the first President of Egypt after the 1952 revolution?

 a) Anwar Sadat

 b) Hosni Mubarak

 c) Gamal Abdel Nasser

 d) Mohamed Morsi

 Answer: c) Gamal Abdel Nasser

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand?

 a) Helen Clark

 b) Jenny Shipley

 c) Jacinda Ardern

 d) Dame Whina Cooper

 Answer: b) Jenny Shipley

Q. Who was the first President of the United States to resign from office?

 a) Richard Nixon

 b) Andrew Johnson

 c) Bill Clinton

 d) Herbert Hoover

 Answer: a) Richard Nixon

Q. Who was the first President of Zimbabwe?

 a) Robert Mugabe

 b) Canaan Banana

 c) Emmerson Mnangagwa

 d) Morgan Tsvangirai

 Answer: b) Canaan Banana

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?

 a) Sirimavo Bandaranaike

 b) Chandrika Kumaratunga

 c) Ranasinghe Premadasa

 d) D. B. Wijetunga

 Answer: a) Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Q. Who was the first President of Indonesia?

 a) Sukarno

 b) Suharto

 c) Megawati Sukarnoputri

 d) Joko Widodo

 Answer: a) Sukarno

Q. Who was the first President of Singapore?

 a) Lee Kuan Yew

 b) Yusof Ishak

 c) S. R. Nathan

 d) Tony Tan

 Answer: b) Yusof Ishak

Q. Who was the first President of South Korea?

 a) Syngman Rhee

 b) Kim Dae-jung

 c) Park Chung-hee

 d) Roh Tae-woo

 Answer: a) Syngman Rhee

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh?

 a) Sheikh Hasina

 b) Khaleda Zia

 c) Hossain Mohammad Ershad

 d) Iskandar Mirza

 Answer: b) Khaleda Zia

Q. Who was the first President of Kenya?

 a) Jomo Kenyatta

 b) Daniel arap Moi

 c) Mwai Kibaki

 d) Uhuru Kenyatta

 Answer: a) Jomo Kenyatta

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Norway?

 a) Erna Solberg

 b) Gro Harlem Brundtland

 c) Siv Jensen

 d) Jens Stoltenberg

 Answer: b) Gro Harlem Brundtland

Q. Who was the first President of Italy after World War II?

 a) Enrico De Nicola

 b) Luigi Einaudi

 c) Giovanni Gronchi

 d) Giuseppe Saragat

 Answer: a) Enrico De Nicola

Q. Who was the first female President of Chile?

 a) Michelle Bachelet

 b) Isabel Allende

 c) Marta Colvin

 d) Adriana Delpiano

 Answer: a) Michelle Bachelet

Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Japan after World War II?

 a) Hideki Tojo

 b) Nobusuke Kishi

 c) Shigeru Yoshida

 d) Eisaku Sato

 Answer: c) Shigeru Yoshida

Q. Who was the first President of Nigeria?

 a) Nnamdi Azikiwe

 b) Olusegun Obasanjo

 c) Goodluck Jonathan

 d) Muhammadu Buhari

 Answer: a) Nnamdi Azikiwe

Q. Who was the first Prime Minister of Malaysia?

 a) Mahathir Mohamad

 b) Tunku Abdul Rahman

 c) Najib Razak

 d) Anwar Ibrahim

 Answer: b) Tunku Abdul Rahman

Q. Who was the first President of Mexico?

 a) Benito Juárez

 b) Porfirio Díaz

 c) Guadalupe Victoria

 d) Vicente Fox

 Answer: c) Guadalupe Victoria

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Iceland?

 a) Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

 b) Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

 c) Katrín Jakobsdóttir

 d) Davíð Oddsson

 Answer: a) Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Q. Who was the first President of Ireland?

 a) Éamon de Valera

 b) Michael D. Higgins

 c) Douglas Hyde

 d) Mary Robinson

 Answer: c) Douglas Hyde

Q. Who was the first President of Zambia?

 a) Kenneth Kaunda

 b) Levy Mwanawasa

 c) Frederick Chiluba

 d) Michael Sata

 Answer: a) Kenneth Kaunda

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Israel?

 a) Golda Meir

 b) Shimon Peres

 c) Yitzhak Rabin

 d) Menachem Begin

 Answer: a) Golda Meir

Q. Who was the first President of Tanzania?

 a) Julius Nyerere

 b) Benjamin Mkapa

 c) Jakaya Kikwete

 d) John Magufuli

 Answer: a) Julius Nyerere

Q. Who was the first President of Portugal after the Carnation Revolution?

 a) António de Spínola

 b) Mário Soares

 c) Aníbal Cavaco Silva

 d) Jorge Sampaio

 Answer: a) António de Spínola

Q. Who was the first female President of Brazil?

 a) Dilma Rousseff

 b) Marina Silva

 c) Marta Suplicy

 d) Rosinha Matheus

 Answer: a) Dilma Rousseff

Q. Who was the first President of the Czech Republic?

 a) Václav Havel

 b) Václav Klaus

 c) Miloš Zeman

 d) Alexander Dubček

 Answer: a) Václav Havel

Q. Who was the first female President of Malawi?

 a) Joyce Banda

 b) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

 c) Yvonne Mutharika

 d) Patricia Kaliati

 Answer: a) Joyce Banda

Q. Who was the first President of Venezuela?

 a) Simón Bolívar

 b) Hugo Chávez

 c) Nicolás Maduro

 d) Rómulo Betancourt

 Answer: a) Simón Bolívar

Q. Who was the first female President of South Korea?

 a) Park Geun-hye

 b) Han Myeong-sook

 c) Yoo Myung-hee

 d) Kim Dae-jung

 Answer: a) Park Geun-hye

Q. Who was the first President of Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

 a) Mikhail Gorbachev

 b) Boris Yeltsin

 c) Vladimir Putin

 d) Dmitry Medvedev

 Answer: b) Boris Yeltsin

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of Denmark?

 a) Helle Thorning-Schmidt

 b) Mette Frederiksen

 c) Pia Kjærsgaard

 d) Inger Støjberg

 Answer: a) Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Q. Who was the first President of Ukraine?

 a) Leonid Kravchuk

 b) Viktor Yushchenko

 c) Petro Poroshenko

 d) Volodymyr Zelensky

 Answer: a) Leonid Kravchuk

Q. Who was the first female President of Taiwan?

 a) Tsai Ing-wen

 b)

 Annette Lu

 c) Hung Hsiu-chu

 d) Ma Ying-jeou

 Answer: a) Tsai Ing-wen

Q. Who was the first President of the Republic of Korea?

 a) Syngman Rhee

 b) Park Chung-hee

 c) Kim Young-sam

 d) Roh Tae-woo

 Answer: a) Syngman Rhee

Q. Who was the first female Prime Minister of France?

 a) Édith Cresson

 b) Ségolène Royal

 c) Simone Veil

 d) Christine Lagarde

 Answer: a) Édith Cresson

Q. Who was the first President of the Republic of Poland after the fall of communism?

 a) Lech Wałęsa

 b) Bronisław Komorowski

 c) Andrzej Duda

 d) Aleksander Kwaśniewski

 Answer: a) Lech Wałęsa

Q. Who was the first female President of the European Commission?

 a) Ursula von der Leyen

 b) Angela Merkel

 c) Christine Lagarde

 d) Federica Mogherini

 Answer: a) Ursula von der Leyen

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