Politics & World Affairs Trivia
Presidents and prime ministers, parliaments and constitutions, treaties, alliances and the organizations that run the world. Nonpartisan, factual and global.
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- 81medium
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What's covered
- World leaders
- Elections
- Governments
- Treaties
- The UN & alliances
- Constitutions
Politics & World Affairs Trivia: sample questions
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- easy
Who served as the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945, orchestrating both World War II and the Holocaust?
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Adolf Hitler
He rose from an unemployed painter in Vienna to absolute ruler of Germany within roughly two decades.
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Which Indian independence leader championed the philosophy of satyagraha and led a famous 1930 protest march to the sea to defy a British salt tax?
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Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's title 'Mahatma,' meaning 'great soul,' was not a birth name but an honorific bestowed on him by admirers.
- medium
This 1919 peace treaty, signed at a French royal palace outside Paris, formally ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I.
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Treaty of Versailles
It was signed in the Hall of Mirrors — the same room where the German Empire had been proclaimed back in 1871.
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Which French politician became president in 2017 at age 39, the youngest in the country's modern history?
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Emmanuel Macron
Macron founded his own centrist political party, En Marche!, barely a year before winning the presidency in 2017.
- hard
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who also once served as his nation's prime minister, hails from which European country?
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Portugal
Before becoming UN Secretary-General in 2017, Guterres served as UN High Commissioner for Refugees (2005-2015) and, earlier, as Portugal's prime minister from 1995 to 2002.
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