Who did John F Kennedy defeat in the 1960 US Presidential Election?

Richard Nixon Click to see the answer

Who was President of the United States throughout the First World War?

Woodrow Wilson

How old was Bill Clinton when he became US President?

46

What is the minimom age requirement for a candidate to become president of the USA?

35

What was Lenin's first name?

Vladimir

In 1989 Nicolae Ceaușescu was deposed as leader of which country?

Romania

According to 2008 Government figures, how much does the average family spend on packaging each year?

£470 Click to see the answer

Which US President proposed the 'Star Wars' defense system?

Ronald Reagan

What is the length of a single full term of office for a US president?

Four years

In which year did Angela Merkel become Chancellor of Germany?

2005

Which US President signed the 'No Child Left Behind' Act?

George W Bush

Which location in the United States was originally known as Shangri-La but is now named after President Eisenhower's grandson?

Camp David

Which Prime Minister took Britain to war over the Falkland Islands?

Margaret Thatcher

Richard M Nixon was US president. What did the M stand for?

Milhouse

Which Prime Minister was caught calling three of his Cabinet Ministers 'bastards'?

John Major

Which US President said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself'?

Franklin D Roosevelt

What was the name of Ronald Reagan's wife?

Nancy

Who was the first American president to resign from office?

Richard Nixon

Who was the first Prime Minister of India after independence from Britain in 1947?

Nehru Click to see the answer

Who immediately preceded Barack Obama as US President?

George W Bush

Who was the youngest man to be elected as US president?

John F Kennedy

Abraham Lincoln was watching which Tom Taylor play in Ford's Theater when he was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth?

Our American Cousin

Joan of Arc was known as the Maid of.....what?

Orleans

Which Prime Minister appointed the first ever female minister?

Ramsey McDonald

How is the Baroness of Holland Park better known?

P.D.James

Which Presidential hopeful withdrew from his election campaign after reports of events on the yacht Monkey Business?

Gary Hart

What is the name of the official airplane for the president of the US?

Air Force One

Which Prime Minister famously claimed to have ended 'boom and bust'?

Gordon Brown

Juan Peron was president of which country?

Argentina

Who was the first president to appear on a U.S. coin?

John F. Kennedy

Before being elected president - Barack Obama was a US Senator representing which US state?

Illinois

How old was Barack Obama when he first became US President in 2009?

47

Benazir Bhutto was leader of which country?

Pakistan

Who was President of the United States at the beginning of World War II?

Franklin Roosevelt Click to see the answer

Who was Soviet Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Krushchev

King Zog was the last monarch of which country?

Albania

Before being elected president, George W Bush was governor of which state?

Texas

Which US President served the shortest period of time in office?

William Harrison

Which of these Conservative party leaders did not become Prime Minister?

William Hague

Pope John Paul II was born in which country?

Poland

In which year did Yasser Arafat die?

2004

Who was the first President of the United States?

George Washington

Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in which year?

2014

David Ben-Gurion was the first PM of which country?

Israel

Who was founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor?

Augustus

What was the nickname of former US President Richard Nixon?

Tricky Dicky

Who became the first US President to visit China?

Richard Nixon

Kurt Waldheim was president of which country?

Austria

Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is from which country?

Egypt

Which Prime Minister made Jeffrey Archer a life peer?

John Major

Who was the youngest president of the USA?

Theodore Roosevelt

Which of these four US presidents served first?

Thomas Jefferson Click to see the answer

Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is from which country?

Austria

Who was the only US president to gain 100% of Electoral College votes in an election?

George Washington

Former US President Bill Clinton famously played which musical instrument

Saxophone

Former UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar is from which country?

Peru

Che Guevara was killed in which country?

Bolivia

Who was the youngest man, at the age of 42, to become President of the United States?

Theodore Roosevelt

In which month is a US president inaugurated?

January

Who did George H W Bush defeat in the 1988 presidential election?

Michael Dukakis

Since 1933, presidential inaugurations have traditionally taken place on which date?

January 20th

Barack Obama was born in which US state?

Hawaii

What is the name of the presidential retreat, located in Maryland?

Camp David

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is from which country?

Ghana

How many Electoral College votes must be a candidate win in an election in order to become president?

270

Albert Reynolds was Prime Minister of which country?

Rep. Ireland

Which US President said 'Ask not what your country can do for you……...'?

John F Kennedy

Which Prime Minister is often unfairly criticized for his 'Peace for Our Time' speech?

Neville Chamberlain

Who did Franklin D Roosevelt defeat in the 1932 election to win his first term as President?

Herbert Hoover

Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of which country?

Canada

Che Guevara was born in which country?

Argentina

Who did Ronald Reagan defeat in his second electoral victory in 1984?

Walter Mondale

Who was the only person to have served as both vice-president and president even though he wasn't elected to either post?

Gerald Ford Click to see the answer

Who became the first President of Russia, after the fall of the Soviet Union?

Yeltsin

How many presidents preceded Abraham Lincoln?

15

Which US President was in office at the time of the Wall Street Crash of 1929?

Herbert Hoover

Who became the first leader of the Soviet Union, in 1922?

Lenin

Which Soviet leader was associated with 'perestroika' and 'glasnost' (openness)?

Gorbachev

Adolf Hitler was born in which country?

Austria

Who was the only US president to serve more than two terms in office?

Franklin D Roosevelt

Which former US President has twin daughters called Jenna and Barbara?

George W Bush

Which Prime Minister oversaw the privatization of National Rail?

John Major

In which year did Adolf Hitler die?

1945

How many British Prime Ministers have been assassinated?

1

Who did Barack Obama defeat in the 2008 US Presidential Election?

John McCain

Who was US President when two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan?

Truman

Which party won the 1972 US presidential election?

Republican

Who was the only US President to resign from office?

Richard Nixon

Before being elected president - Bill Clinton was governor of which US state?

Arkansas

Which US President owned a dog called Jip?

Abraham Lincoln

What is the maximom number of Electoral College votes available in a US presidential? election?

538

Which war would you associate Douglas MacArthur with?

Korean War

What did the 'F' in John F. Kennedy stand for?

Fitzgerald

What was the first name of Miss Lewinsky, of whom Bill Clinton said 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman'?

Monica

Who was the only US President not to have been born in one of the 48 continental states?

Barack Obama

Who was the oldest man, at the age of 69, to be elected as US President?

Ronald Reagan

Which US President offered military aid to Korea in 1950?

Harry S. Truman

US politician Dan Quayle was Vice President in the 1990s. What his first name a shortened version of?

Danforth

Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007. Which of these was his emphasis when he came to office?

Education Click to see the answer

Who was the leader of the Conservative Party prior to John Major?

Margaret Thatcher

Who was the Labour leader before Neil Kinnock?

Michael Foot

Who was The Iron Chancellor?

Otto Von Bismark

How many women served in Cabinets under Margaret Thatcher?

2

Which President is associated with the 'New Frontier' policy which set out a program of civil rights reforms?

John F.Kennedy

UK general elections traditionally take place on which day?

Thursday Click to see the answer

Which official traditionally administers the oath of office to the president on Inauguration Day?

Chief Justice

Fidel Castro was leader of which country

Cuba

Which was the only former US President to serve as Chief Justice of the United States?

William Taft

Who was Emperor of Japan from 1926-1989?

Hirohito

Napoleon Bonaparte was Emperor of France in which century?

19th

Which president began his first address with the words 'All I have I would have given gladly, not to be standing here today'

Lyndon Johnson

Which US president was once a male model?

Gerald Ford

Who was the Vice President of George H. W. Bush?

Dan Quayle

Who was Prime Minister during the time of the Miners' Strike and the Poll Tax Riots?

Margaret Thatcher Click to see the answer

Who was the first British person in space?

Helen Sharman

Whose husbands include Roger Vadim and Gunter Sachs?

Brigitte Bardot

Who was the first female President of Ireland?

Mary Robinson

Who was the defeated Democrat candidate in the 2000 presidential election?

Al Gore

Whose autobiography was titled 'Courting Triumph'?

Virginia Wade

Who was Terry Waite working for when he was taken hostage in 1987?

Archbishop of Canterbury

Whose autobiography was called Losing My Virginity?

Richard Branson

Whose real name is Maurice Micklewhite?

Michael Caine

Who wrote the line: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'?

Shakespeare Click to see the answer

Who was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Zeus?

Jupiter

Who was Prime Minister at the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers?

Tony Blair

Whose passport is Number 1?

Prince Philip

Who was the first person to enter space more than once?

Gus Grissom

Who was the famous son of the woman born Jennie Jerome?

Winston Churchill

Who won a Nobel Prize for the second time in 1911?

Marie Curie

Who was the grandfather of Charles Darwin?

Josiah Wedgwood

Which part of the UK saw an historical new era of government start on May 8th, 2007?

Northern Ireland

Which of these people is a past Prime Minister of the UK?

William Gladstone

Whose last words were 'I shall hear in heaven'?

Beethoven

In the 20th century, which of these Teds was Prime Minister?

Ted Heath

Who was the Queen's first Prime Minister?

Winston Churchill Click to see the answer

Who was the first Queen to have a flushing lavatory?

Elizabeth I

Who was voted FHM magazine's 'World's Sexiest Women' in a poll published in 2009?

Cheryl Cole

Whose Investiture ceremony took place at Caernarfon Castle in 1969?

Prince Charles

Who was married to, among others, Carolyn Mitchell, Ava Gardner and Martha Vickers?

Mickey Rooney

Andrew Jackson was US Senator for which state before becoming president?

Tennessee

Whose many husbands included Conrad Hilton, George Sanders and Jack Ryan?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

What form of monarchy governs does Qatar have?

Absolute

Whose parents were called Vernon and Gladys?

Elvis Presley

Whose father fought as a World War I fighter pilot for Germany?

Peter Ustinov

Whose maiden name was Warfield?

Wallis Simpson

Who was the intended victim of the Gunpowder Plot?

James I

Whose disability benefit was stopped after he took part in a televised penalty shoot-out?

Tommy Smith

Whose former husbands include Nicky Hilton, Eddie Fisher and Richard Burton?

Elizabeth Taylor

Who was once Meg Matthews's partner?

Noel Gallagher

Who was the longest serving head of government in the UK in the 20th century?

Margaret Thatcher Click to see the answer

Back in the 17th century, whose supporters were known as Roundheads?

Oliver Cromwell

George Washington became the first President of the United States In what year?

1789

Who was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1952?

Queen Elizabeth II

Who wrote the music for the musical 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'?

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Whose diaries were published in July 2007 revealing much of what went on behind the scenes at 10 Downing Street?

Alastair Campbell

Who was Prime Minister during Edward VIII's Abdication crisis in 1936?

Stanley Baldwin

Which position did David Miliband take up in Gordon Brown's first cabinet as Prime Minister?

Foreign Secretary

Who was the first Labour MP?

Kier Hardy

Who was the government minister who found himself holding an impromptu press conference with Joanna Lumley in May 2009?

Phil Woolas

Abraham Lincoln is most strongly associated with Illinois - but in which state was he actually born?

Kentucky

Whose alleged last words were 'Either that wallpaper goes or I do'?

Oscar Wilde

On which of these items do the Government collect tax known as stamp duty?

House

Who was Prime Minister from 1955 - 1957?

Anthony Eden

Who was the first monarch to reside regularly at Buckingham Palace?

Victoria

Who is the only 'first man' to have lived at 10 Downing Street?

Denis Thatcher

Who was the first member of the royal family to be interviewed on TV?

Prince Philip

Whose last diary entry read: 'I do not think I can write any more'?

Captain Scott

Who wrote the novel 'A Parliamentary Affair'?

Edwina Currie Click to see the answer

What is Paddy Ashdown's first name?

Jeremy

Who was US President for 8 of Margaret Thatcher's 11 years in power?

Ronald Reagan

Which Irish sounding surname was shared by the Welsh and Scottish Secretaries in Gordon Brown's government in 2009?

Murphy

Which country is the world's largest democracy?

India

Who was the father of the late Paula Yates?

Hughie Green

Who was the last Kray brother to survive?

Reggie

Who was the mayor of New York at the time of the September 11th attacks?

Rudy Giuliani

What's the first name of the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions ... Starmer?

Keir

Who was the hero of Orwell's book, 'Nineteen Eighty-four'?

Winston Smith

Who was the mother of King Edward the Sixth?

Jane Seymour

Whose father was hanged?

Benazir Bhutto

What position did hold Robert Gates in Barack Obama's first cabinet?

Secretary of Defense

Who was the first British royal to be born in Scotland since the 1600s?

Princess Margaret

Whose catchphrase is 'Can we talk'?

Joan Rivers

Who was Prime Minister of the UK when direct rule was imposed on Northern Ireland in 1972?

Heath

Who became Chancellor of the Exchequer in Gordon Brown's first cabinet as Prime Minister?

Alistair Darling

Who was the leader of the Liberal Democrats before Charles Kennedy?

Paddy Ashdown

Who wrote the revised 1984 script for the musical 'Me And My Girl'?

Stephen Fry

Who was the first Catholic to be made President of the USA?

John F. Kennedy

Who was the last Tory Chancellor before Labour came to power in 1997?

Clarke

In 2009, the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's election to power was marked. Which party did she represent?

Conservative Click to see the answer

Who was the first man to reach the South Pole?

Roald Amundsen

Which industry contributes one third of government revenue in Mexico?

Oil

Who was Prime Minister at the start of the 20th Century?

Marquess of Salisbury

Who became Vice President of the USA in 2009?

Joe Biden

Which party did Tony Blair represent throughout his career as MP and Prime Minister?

Labour

Who's the millionaire who, in 2009, sold his ú16 million country estate and gave all the proceeds to charity?

Brian Burnie

Who wrote 'Paradise Lost'?

Milton

Who, when asked who would play him in the film of his life replied 'Mackenzie Crook - on stilts'?

Peter Crouch

Who was the 'face' of Tommy Hilfiger designs in 2001?

Jennifer Lopez

In which year did the Labour Party first come to power in Britain?

1924

In which year was Sarah Palin first elected Governor of Alaska?

2006

Who replaced Peter Hain as Welsh Secretary in 2008?

Paul Murphy

In 1946, the UK Government said 'Women could be ... if they didn't marry' - which profession is missing?

Diplomats

Whose father was Chancellor of the Exchequer?

Winston Churchill

Whose husbands include Anthony Newley, Ronald Kass and Percy Gibson?

Joan Collins

Which Prime Minister's father was a trapeze artist?

Major

Who was the last president before Bill Clinton to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

Who was the Nazi commander of the German air force during WW2?

Hermann Goering

Who was the child of a Venezuelan father and an Irish mother?

Mariah Carey

Who would you associate with the phrase 'go ahead, make my day'?

Clint Eastwood

Who was the US President at the time of the Wall Street Crash?

Herbert Hoover

Who was on the English throne during the Great Fire of London?

Charles II

Who was the love of the Emperor Napoleon's life?

Josephine

Who was the last wife of Henry VIII?

Katherine Parr

Which Democratic Party candidate was beaten twice in US presidential elections by Republican Dwight D Eisenhower?

Adlai E Stevenson II Click to see the answer

Who became the 26th President of the USA in 1901?

Theodore Roosevelt

Which US President had the nickname 'Old Rough and Ready?'

Zachary Taylor

Which US President was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz?

William McKinley

Ian Paisley was the leader of which political party in Northern Ireland?

Democratic Unionist Party

Who was the first US President to serve two terms in office?

George Washington

The Syrian civil war can be dated from when?

March 2011 Click to see the answer

Which president appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court?

Ronald Reagan

Who was British Prime Minister when England won the World Cup in 1966?

Wilson

When he was a student, former US president Bill Clinton won a scholarship to attend which university in England?

Oxford

Which political party has had the most US Presidents?

Republican

Who succeeded Andrew Jackson as US President in 1829?

Martin Van Buren

Who was the only US president to have earned a PhD degree?

Woodrow Wilson

Who succeeded Herbert Hoover as US President in 1929?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sir Edward George was the governor of what?

Bank of England

Who succeeded George Washington as US President in 1789?

John Adams Click to see the answer

Which US President led his country into World War I?

Woodrow Wilson

Who was the first US president to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Theodore Roosevelt

Which US President gained the nickname 'Old Tippecanoe'

William Harrison

Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio, kidnapped in 2002, was a senator in which South American country?

Colombia

Which communist leader said he wished for the circus to become 'The people's art-form'' in Russia?'

Lenin

Who was the only US president to serve non-consecutive terms in office?

Grover Cleveland

Who was elected US President 100 years before John F. Kennedy?

Abraham LIncoln

What alleged incident in Syria in September 2013 caused an international outcry?

Chemical weapons attack

Who was the heaviest US President?

William Taft

In September 2010 who was re-elected for a record fourth time as President of the Indian National Congress?

Sonia Gandhi

Which US President ordered the development of a space shuttle program in 1972?

Richard Nixon

Who was the first US President to serve only one term as president?

John Adams Click to see the answer

Who was the only US president never to have been married?

James Buchanan

John F Kennedy made his 'We choose to go to the moon' speech at Rice University - in which state?

Texas

Which of these sayings is attributed to US president Teddy Roosevelt?

Speak softly and carry a big stick

Simone de Beauvoir had a lifelong association with which other philosopher?

Jean Paul Sarte

Which US President owned a horse called Magnolia?

George Washington

Which of these World War II leaders died by committing suicide?

Hitler

Taking office at the age of 42, who is the youngest ever US President?

Theodore Roosevelt

Which US President once said: 'I tried marijuana once, I did not inhale'?

Bill Clinton

Raúl Alfonsín was the leader of which country in the 80s?

Argentina

Of which organization did Jacob Zuma become the leader in 2007?

ANC

Which rebellion saw William Bligh deposed as Governor of New South Wales?

Rum

Who was British Prime Minister for the shortest time?

George Canning

Which US President has the middle name 'Earl'?

Jimmy Carter

US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the ´Tower Commission´) to investigate what?

Iran?Contra affair

Which British Prime Minister spoke of 'peace in our time'?

Chamberlain Click to see the answer

Which US President gained the nicknames 'The Little Magician' and 'Old Kinderhook' during his political career?

Martin Van Buren

Who was British Prime Minister when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936?

Baldwin

Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War I?

Asquith

Who was the first US President to take office as a result of the death of the incumbent president?

John Tyler

US President Barack Obama was born in which US state?

Hawaii

Which of the following originated from the USA?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which Roman leader died with: ' 'I found a Rome of bricks; I leave to you one of marble'?

Caesar Augustus

Which US President's name became synonymous with underhand and illegal deals?

Nixon

In the book 'Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference', which university had the front doors blocked to keep several black students from registering?

University of Alabama

What was Heinrich Himmler's job before he led the Gestapo in World War II?

Chicken Farmer

Which US President fought 13 duels, killing his opponent in one of them?

Andrew Jackson

Who is generally regarded to have been the first British Prime Minister?

Robert Walpole

Which US President was nicknamed 'the Tennessee Tailor'?

Andrew Johnson

Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War II?

Chamberlain

In the 20th century, which South African island became infamous as a goal for political prisoners under apartheid?

Robben Island

Who did Franklin D Roosevelt defeat in the 1944 election to win an unprecedented fourth term in office?

Thomas Dewey

Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated in 1991, was a leader in which country?

India

In Indian politics, the power to decide an election petition is vested in the, what?

High Courts

What was the name of the dictator who led Italy during World War II?

Benito Mussolini