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General Political Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 1
1) For how many years is a French President elected?
Answer: Seven years.
2) What does the GOP stand for?
Answer: Grand Old Party.
3) Name the person who won the Nehru Award for International Understanding, he also known as Frontier Gandhi?
Answer: Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
4) What is Donald Trump’s middle name?
Answer: John.
5) Who was the first president of Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Boris (Nikolayevich) Yeltsin the first popularly elected Russian president in 1991.
6) Who was known as ‘Lion of Kashmir’?
Answer: Sheikh Abdullah.
7) Who is the longest serving Prime Minister in British history?
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole.
8) Who was the chief leader of South African Negroes during the period of 1905-1940?
Answer: Abdullah Abdurahman.
9) What relation was John Parke Custis to George Washington?
Answer: Stepson.
10) Name the 6th President of U.S.A, who was the son of U.S.A’s 2nd President?
Answer: John Quincy Adams.
11) What nickname was given to Robert Walpole’s period of political dominance?
Answer: The Robinocracy.
12) Who was the founder of Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) in West Germany?
Answer: Conrad Adner.
13) Which American President was the last to be impeached?
Answer: Richard Nixon.
14) Who was the President of Cameroon during the period of 1960-1982?
Answer: Ahmadou Ahidjo.
15) Bob Bennett, who belonged to the Republican Party, became a senator in the year 2009. Which state did he represent?
Answer: Utah.
16) Name the Communist leader of Indonesia during the period of 1951-1965:
Answer: D. N. Aidit.
17) Who was the first Latino Supreme Court Justice?
Answer: Sonia Sotomayor.
18) King of Bavaria (1806-1825):
Answer: Maximilian I.
19) What was the original name of the company Trump’s father Frederick owned?
Answer: Elizabeth Trump & Son.
20) Who was the President of Uganda during the period of 1971-1979?
Answer: Idi Amin.
General Political Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 2
21) Which role had Thomas Pelham-Holles held for over 30 years before his time as Prime Minister began?
Answer: Secretary of State.
22) Name the English man who was a freedom fighter of India, he was also known as ‘Deenabandhu’?
Answer: Charles Freer Andrews.
23) Where was George Washington sworn in as the first President of the USA?
Answer: Federal Hall, New York City.
24) Who was the General Secretary of U.S.S.R’s Communist Party after the death of Leonid Brezhnev?
Answer: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov.
25) In what years did Spencer Compton serve as Prime Minister?
Answer: 1742-43.
26) Name the founder of ‘Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’ (D.M.K):
Answer: C. N. Annadurai.
27) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Iran.
28) Which are the famous works of C. N. Annadurai?
Answer: Velaikari, Oru Iravu.
29) Who wrote the book ‘Crippled America’?
Answer: Donald Trump.
30) Name the Irish woman, who was the President of Theosophical Society and Indian National Congress?
Answer: Annie Besant.
31) What word is used for a long speech by a Senator that halts the passage of a bill?
Answer: Filibuster.
32) Who was the President of Philippines in 1986?
Answer: Corazon Aquino.
33) What was Donald Trump’s famous catchphrase he used to say during his NBC TV show?
Answer: You’re fired.
34) Who was the chairman of Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since 1968?
Answer: Yasser Arafat.
35) Which Tory was Prime Minister when America gained independence from British rule?
Answer: Lord Frederick North.
36) Who was the first President of Turkey?
Answer: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
37) John Adams served as the first United States ambassador to what two countries?
Answer: United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
38) When did Sirimavo Bandaranaike become as world’s first woman Prime Minister?
Answer: I960.
39) What King dismissed George Grenville as Prime Minister?
Answer: George III.
40) When did Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hang to death?
Answer: 1979.
General Political Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 3
41) What Us President said I promise instead of I swear inaugurate?
Answer: Richard M Nixon.
42) Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was appointed as a Prime Minister in:
Answer: 1988 December.
43) Can you name the politician who received the ‘Order of the German Eagle, award in the year 1938?
Answer: Henry Ford.
44) Who was the founder of Pakistan People’s Party?
Answer: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
45) Who was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice?
Answer: Thurgood Marshall.
46) He was Gandhi’s Doctor. He won the Bharat Ratna in 1961. Who was he?
Answer: Bidhan Chandra Roy.
47) When did Donald Trump divorce from his first wife, Ivana?
Answer: 1991.
48) Who was the king of Nepal in 1972?
Answer: Birendra Bir Bikram Shah.
49) Who served as British Prime Minister between 1812 and 1827?
Answer: Robert Jenkinson.
50) After the death of John Smith in 1994, who has became the leader of Labour Party of England?
Answer: Tony Blair.
51) John Adams was the first President to reside where?
Answer: The White House.
52) Jim Bolger, the leader of National Party became the Prime Minister of New Zealand in:
Answer: 1990.
53) Frederick North led the United Kingdom through the majority of what war?
Answer: American Revolutionary War.
54) When did Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany win the Nobel Prize for Peace?
Answer: 1971.
55) Where was Lyndon Johnson when he first took the Presidential oath?
Answer: Air force I.
56) George Bush was the President of U.S.A during the period of:
Answer: 1989-1993.
57) What medal did J. William Fulbright get in the year 1977?
Answer: Benjamin Franklin Medal.
58) Who was the President of U.S.A after George Bush?
Answer: Bill Clinton.
59) James Monroe wrote this document warning Europe not to try to interfere with either South or North America. What is it?
Answer: Monroe Doctrine.
60) When did Captain Lakshmi Sahgal win, ‘Padma Vibhushan’?
Answer: 1998.
General Political Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 4
61) What is the name of Trump’s second wife?
Answer: Marla Maples.
62) Who was the 39th President (1977-1981) of U.S.A?
Answer: Jimmy Carter.
63) Aberdeen resigned in 1855 because of his perceived failures managing which crisis?
Answer: The Crimean War.
64) After resigning from Congress Party in 1959, which party was formed by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari?
Answer: Swatantra Party.
65) What country supported Thomas Jefferson in his bid to become President in 1796?
Answer: France.
66) Charan Singh was the Prime Minister of India in 1979 for some days. He died in 1987. He was the leader of:
Answer: Lok Dal.
67) Who was King during William Pitt the Younger’s tenure as Prime Minister?
Answer: George III.
68) Valko Chervenkov was the Prime Minister of Bulgaria during the period of 1950-1956. He was known as:
Answer: Little Stalin.
69) What first lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
Answer: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
70) Chiang Ching-kuo was the famous leader of Taiwan Nationalist Chinese Government. When did he become the President of Taiwan?
Answer: 1972-1978.
71) Can you name the politician who received the ‘Nansen Refugee Award’ in the year 1954?
Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt.
72) When U.S.A fought against Vietnam, who advised the Vietnam guerrillas the method of defeating U.S.A?
Answer: Truong Chinh.
73) Which member of the President’s Cabinet has jurisdiction over the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)?
Answer: Attorney General.
74) Who was the Prime Minister of France during the period of 1974-1976 and 1986-1988?
Answer: Jacques Chirac.
75) Which university did Trump attend before transferring to University of Pennsylvania?
Answer: Fordham University.
76) Who was the President of Mozambique in 1986?
Answer: Joaquim Alberto Chissano.
77) Who succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister on 6th December 1916?
Answer: David Lloyd George..
78) Who was the youngest Prime Minister in the history of Canada?
Answer: Charles Joseph Clark.
79) What war did the USA fight against the United Kingdom during James Madison’s tenure as President?
Answer: War of 1812.
80) Who was the Prime Minister of Canada in 1984?
Answer: Joe Clark.
General Political Quiz Questions and Answers 2020 Part 5
81) What was the name of the government of national unity that William Grenville formed after becoming Prime Minister?
Answer: Ministry of All the Talents.
82) Name the person who has worked as a Private Secretary of Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) for a long period?
Answer: Sir. John Colville.
83) Which President Instigated The New Deal For The USA?
Answer: Franklin D Roosevelt.
84) When was Sun Yat-sen died?
Answer: 1925.
85) Who wrote the book ‘Hard Choices’?
Answer: Hillary Clinton.
86) She was a famous person in Greece politics, she was the wife of Sir Alexander Fleming, inventor of Penicillin. Who was she?
Answer: Amalia Fleming.
87) The National Security Council (NSC) falls under the jurisdiction of which U.S. government agency?
Answer: Executive Office of the President.
88) When did Malcolm Fraser become the Prime Minister of Australia?
Answer: 1975-1983.
89) Who co-produced The Celebrity Apprentice alongside Donald Trump?
Answer: Mark Burnett.
90) For fifteen years, who was India’s Prime Minister?
Answer: Indira Gandhi.
91) Which Prime Minister suspended the Death Penalty in England, Wales and Scotland?
Answer: Harold Wilson.
92) Who was the most famous man of 20th century?
Answer: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
93) James Monroe was the last President of what dynasty?
Answer: Virginia dynasty.
94) Name the Indian Prime Minister, who won the ‘Bharat Ratna Award’ in 1971?
Answer: Indira Gandhi.
95) Arthur Wellesley famously led coalition forces at which 1815 battle?
Answer: Battle of Waterloo.
96) Name the English Liberal politician who succeeded Clement Davies as Liberal leader in 1956.
Answer: Jo Grimond.
97) Can you name the politician who received the ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ in the year 1953?
Answer: George Marshall.
98) Who became the first female leader of a British political party?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher.
99) What is the Israeli parliament called?
Answer: Knesset.
100) Who was the first SNP politician to hold the post of First Minister of Scotland?
Answer: Alex Salmond.
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