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Quiz: How well do you know your world leaders?
Show us your leadership skills.
SOME OF THESE people could be out of a job by the end of the year…
According to Time Magazine, at least 64 elections will take place over the course of 2024 – involving over half of the planet’s voting population. India held a general election this week, with the United Kingdom and the United States to follow later this year.
Speculation has also begun to mount that Ireland could hold its next general election in November…
In honour of this momentous year of electoral politics, why not test your knowledge of world leaders with our world leader quiz?
Who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (for now)?
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Keir Starmer
Rishi Sunak
Liz Truss
Boris Johnson
When was Emanuel Macron first elected president of France?
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2017
2018
2019
2020
Before he was Vice President and later President of the United States, Joe Biden was a Senator for which state?
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Pennsylvania
Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
Who did Xi Jinping replace as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party?
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Zhao Ziyang
Jiang Zemin
Deng Xiaoping
Hu Jintao
Which of these world leaders is also the child of a former world leader?
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Justin Trudeau
Narendra Modi
Giorgia Meloni
Pedro Sanchez
Who is Ireland's head of government?
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Simon Harris
Michael D Higgins
What percentage of the vote did Vladimir Putin officially receive in this year's Russian presidential election?
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66.46%
77.47%
88.48%
99.49%
Who is the man in the white shirt?
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Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden
Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland
Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany
The former leader of of which nation was assassinated on 8 July, 2022?
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Philippines
Ecuador
Honduras
Japan
Fill in the blank as it pertains to the President of Turkey: Recep _____ Erdoğan
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Emre
Tayyip
Kemal
Aydin
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Gold Homer
The highest of honours.
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Emperor
Pretty good!
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