Famous Leaders

What this quiz asks

• Which Roman general crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC and triggered a civil war?
• Who was the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
• In which year did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa?
• The Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
• Select ALL of these figures who died by assassination.
• Who is the longest-reigning monarch in British history?
• Which Soviet leader introduced the reforms known as glasnost and perestroika?
• Did Napoleon Bonaparte place the crown on his own head at his 1804 coronation?
• Which US president was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
• Who was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt?
• Queen Victoria was on the British throne when the Great Exhibition opened in London in 1851.
• Select ALL of these figures who were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Select ALL of these who ruled France with the title of Emperor.
• Did Julius Caesar ever hold the title of Emperor of Rome?
• Who led the 1930 Salt March in India's campaign of nonviolent resistance?
• Which French king was known as the Sun King and made Versailles his seat of power?
• Order these rulers by when they came to power, earliest first.
• Who proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949?
• Which US president was elected to four terms, leading through the Depression and most of the Second World War?
• Simón Bolívar helped lead several South American countries to independence from Spain.