POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTS

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS AND LEADERS

This is quite a tough quiz to test your knowledge of all things political.

QUESTIONS

1. Which country’s parliament is called the Knesset?

2. Which sport did Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan play at international level?

3. Jubilee House is the Presidential Palace found in the city of Accra, but in what country?

4. Barack Obama was Senator for which US state before becoming President?

5. Which theatre in Washington D.C. was Abraham Lincoln shot?

6. The House of Representatives and the Senate both meet at the Binnenhof building in which European country?

7. Golda Meir was the first woman to serve as Israel’s Prime Minister, but in which country was she born in 1898?

8. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate which US President?

9. What do John A. Costello, Michael Collins, Charles Haughey and Leo Varadkar all have in common?

10. Which country has a governing body called the Senedd?

ANSWERS

1. Which country’s parliament is called the Knesset?
ISRAEL (Knesset means Assembly in Hebrew)

2. Which sport did Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan play at international level?
CRICKET

3. Jubilee House is the Presidential Palace found in the city of Accra, but in what country?
GHANA

4. Barack Obama was Senator for which US state before becoming President?
ILLINOIS

5. Which theatre in Washington D.C. was Abraham Lincoln shot?
FORD’S THEATRE

6. The House of Representatives and the Senate both meet at the Binnenhof building in which European country?
NETHERLANDS

7. Golda Meir was the first woman to serve as Israel’s Prime Minister, but in which country was she born in 1898?
UKRAINE

8. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate which US President?
RONALD REAGAN

9. What do John A. Costello, Michael Collins, Charles Haughey and Leo Varadkar all have in common?
THEY HAVE ALL BEEN HEAD OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT

10. Which country has a governing body called the Senedd?
WALES