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Politics Quiz Questions and Answers
Politics Quiz Questions Part 1
Politics Quiz 1-15
1) Which politician described Russia “A puzzle with in a mystery, wrapped up in an enigma”?
Answer: Winston Churchill.
2) What is the name of Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest son?
Answer: Edward.
3) Who was the first Labor Prime Minister to form government in 1924?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald.
4) Who lived at Lambeth Palace?
Answer: The Archbishop of Canterbury.
5) Who became the first non-Communist Polish Prime Minister since the 2nd world war in 1939?
Answer: Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
6) Name the first woman Prime Minister of Israel.
Answer: Golda Meir.
7) In which self-governing country in the world did women first obtain the right to vote in a national election?
Answer: New Zealand.
8) He was a British Socialist Politician who lived between 1897 and 1960 best known as the architect of the National Health Service?
Answer: Aneurin Bevan.
9) He was the German diplomat and statesman and was chief architect of the German Empire and was known as the Iron Chancellor. Who was he?
Answer: Otto von Bismarck.
10) Which politician was chiefly responsible for the creation of the British Police force as we know it?
Answer: Robert Peel.
11) What is the name of the National Parliament of the Irish Republic?
Answer: Dail Eireann.
12) In which country is the Cortes Parliament?
Answer: Spain.
13) Two Victorian politician were known as The People’s Tribune and Dizzy. Name them.
Answer: William Ewart Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli.
14) In the World of International Alliances what is O. A. U?
Answer: The organization of African Unity.
15) What is the Icelandic Parliament called?
Answer: The Althing.
Politics Quiz Questions Part 2
Politics Quiz 16-30
16) What is the collective name of the international agreements by all the member states of the European Community?
Answer: Treaties of Rome.
17) What are the two main political parties in the Republic of Ireland called?
Answer: Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
18) For how many years is a French President elected?
Answer: Seven years.
19) Who was the founder of Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in West Germany?
Answer: Konrad Adenauer.
20) Who was the first President of Turkey?
Answer: Kemal Ataturk.
21) George Bush was the President of USA during the period of _?
Answer: 1989-1993.
22) Who was the youngest Prime Minister in the history of Canada?
Answer: Joe Clark.
23) For fifteen years, who was India’s Prime Minister?
Answer: Indira Gandhi.
24) Who was the last king of Ethiopia?
Answer: Haile Selassie.
25) Who was the first president of Indonesia?
Answer: Sukarno.
26) Who rebuilt the Democratism of Spain?
Answer: Juan Carlos.
27) Who was the first President of independent Belgian Congo?
Answer: Joseph Kasavubu.
28) Who banned slavery in America?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln.
29) Who was the first prime minister of Jamaica and the founder of People’s National Party?
Answer: Michael Manley.
30) Who was the Prince of Japan?
Answer: Prince Naruhito.
Politics Quiz Questions Part 3
Politics Quiz 31-50
31) Which soviet leader did Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin replace in a Kremlin coup in October 1964?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev.
32) Who was the President of United States from 1963-69 holding office after John F Kennedy and before Richard M. Nixon?
Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson.
33) Name the next five conservative party leaders who became Prime Ministers after Sir Winston Churchill:
Answer: Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas Home, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher.
34) Who was Hitler’s propaganda minister during the period of 1933-1945?
Answer: Joseph Goebbels.
35) What did these American presidents (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F Kennedy) have in common?
Answer: They were all assassinated in office.
36) In World War I who was known as the ‘Welsh Wizard’?
Answer: David Lloyd George.
37) Elbridge Gerry, a U.S. Politician, gave his name to a questionable political practice. What was this practice and what did it consist of?
Answer: Gerrymandering – altering the boundaries of a constituency to ensure the election of a selected candidate.
38) What is the color of the seats in the House of Lords?
Answer: Red.
39) What is the color of the seats in the House of Commons?
Answer: Green.
40) Who was the Boer, fought against the British in the Boer War and later became twice Prime Minister of South Africa in 1919 and 1939?
Answer: Jan Christiaan Smuts.
41) Which department of the British Government is named after the French word for chessboard?
Answer: The Exchequer.
42) Bismarck’s war policy in the 19th century was contained in three words – ‘Blut und Eisen’ what is the English translation?
Answer: Blood and Iron.
43) Which was the nationality of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the authors of the Communist Manifesto?
Answer: German.
44) Richard M. Nixon was the President of the United States of America between 1969 and 1974. ‘M’ in his name stands for what?
Answer: Milhous.
45) The Speaker presides over debates in the House of Commons. What is his opposite number in the House of Lords?
Answer: The Lord Chancellor.
46) Who succeeded Harold Macmillan as the Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Answer: Sir Alec Douglas Home.
47) What other title is held by the First Lord of the Treasury?
Answer: Prime Minister of Great Britain.
48) Which post-war Prime Minister represented the constituencies of Stockton-on-Tees (1924-29 and 1931-45) and Bromley (1945-64)?
Answer: The Rt Hon. Maurice Harold MacMillan.
49) He was a 16th century Italian Statesman and he gave his name to a word meaning unscrupulous political cunning. Who was he?
Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli.
50) Which European country claims to have the world’s oldest parliament established in 930 AD?
Answer: Iceland-The Althing.
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