The Post Quiz: 20th Century Leaders
Created | Updated Jun 8, 2014
We have a challenge for all you political junkies.
The Post Quiz: Name Those Leaders
In the time travel movies, one way to place yourself when you emerge from your tardis/time bubble/Delorean is to ask: who's the President/Prime Minister? This only works if you know them, you people. So we're going to test you. This exam, which will count toward your final grade, comes in two sections.
Brits, put the 20th-century Presidents in order.
U.S. residents, do the same for the Prime Ministers. Ha!
Canadians, Australians, South Africans, Europeans, Israelis, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri, take your pick. Or wait for a future quiz on Galactic Secretaries General. Your choice.
US Presidents. Put them in order.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Gerald Ford
- Dwight D Eisenhower
- Theodore Roosevelt
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
- Herbert Hoover
- William Jefferson Clinton
- Calvin Coolidge
- John F Kennedy
- Warren G Harding
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
- William McKinley
- Jimmy Carter
- Harry S Truman
- Ronald Reagan
- George HW Bush
- Richard Milhous Nixon
And now, the Prime Ministers.
Note: Some of them are listed more than once, because British politics and weird go together like fish and chips. Have fun, Yanks!
- Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Tony Blair
- Herbert Henry Asquith
- James Callaghan
- David Lloyd George
- Arthur Balfour
- Neville Chamberlain
- John Major
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Andrew Bonar Law
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
- Stanley Baldwin
- Stanley Baldwin
- Sir Anthony Eden
- Sir Alec Douglas-Home
- Harold Wilson
- Clement Attlee
- Harold Wilson
- Harold Macmillan
- Edward Heath
- Margaret Thatcher
Whew! If you survived that lot, you're a political history encyclopedia. Check your answers by clicking on the fetching picture below.
