This document is a quiz on current and past heads of state from around the world. It contains 3 sections: Current Country Heads, Past Country Dictators, and Great Country Leaders. The Past Country Dictators section profiles 10 dictators like Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Kim Jong-Il of North Korea, and Adolf Hitler of Germany and their authoritarian actions. The Great Country Leaders section highlights influential leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Nelson Mandela. The document was created by an assistant professor in India as an educational resource.

1. World Country Heads Quiz

2. Prepared By
Manu Melwin Joy
Assistant Professor
Ilahia School of Management Studies
Kerala, India.
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35. Current Country Heads

36. 1
Sheikh Hasina

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Raúl Castro

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Angela Merkel

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Benjamin Netanyahu

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Schizo Abe

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David Cameron

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Mahinda Rajapaksa

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Vladimir Putin

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Hamid Karzai

45. Past Country Dictators

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Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe
President Robert Mugabe of
Zimbabwe is said to have risen
to power via electoral
deception and fear mongering.
There was even one election
where he did not receive any
votes in a certain province so
he orchestrated the killing of
over 20,000 civilians by
fabricating stories of rebellion
and treason

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Kim Jong-Il of North Korea
Recently deceased, Kim Jong-Il
had nearly a quarter million
people arrested during his rule
and is directly responsible for
the starvation and deaths of
million of North Koreans.

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Idi Amin Dada of Uganda
Even though Idi Amin Dada
ruled Uganda for only eight
years from 1971 to 1979, he
took full advantage of his time
in command to put his wrath
on display. Roughly half a
million people lost their lives
due to extrajudicial killings and
genocide during this time.

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Vladimir Lenin of Russia
Probably no one in history has
received more assassination
attempts than Vladimir Lenin.
Of course, given the fact that
he instituted the “Red Terror”
or the systematic elimination
of millions of people, including
members of his own political
party, this should come as no
surprise.

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Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh became president
of North Vietnam by means of
violence and fear. Another
dictator who seemed to be
trigger happy with his land
reforms, over 100,000 people
were executed as a result.
Others who experienced
famine and seclusion in war
camps numbered to over 1
million.

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Saddam Hussein of Iraq
Saddam Hussein was a well-known
leader that instigated
numerous conflicts in his
lifetime. He instituted mass
genocide against the Kurds,
Shabaks, Assyrians, Mandeans
and other ethnic groups who
rebelled against his leadership
and fought several wars
against Iran and Kuwait, with
the death toll climbing to
about 2 million in total.

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Omar al-Bashir of Sudan
As President of Sudan, Omar
al-Bashir was the ruler that
negotiated the end of the
Sudanese Civil War by giving in
to what the Sudan People’s
Liberation Army was
requesting. Although what he
did was considered fair and
noble, the agreement directly
led to wars in Darfur that
claimed the lives of about
400,000 people due to
violence and starvation.

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Josef Stalin of Soviet Union
Josef Stalin became the leader
of Soviet Union after Lenin
died in 1924, and launched
government programs that
would make the country more
progressive. His attempt to
move to the new economy,
however, led to the starvation
of nearly 10 million people.
With many intellectuals and
activists not in favor of his
leadership, Stalin also
launched the “Great Purge”,
killing every person who
opposed him and his ideals.

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Adolf Hitler of Germany
To most people Adolf Hitler
does not need much of an
introduction as he was famous
for being the leader of the
Nazis – a German party that
was responsible for the deaths
of over 17 million people
including 6 million Jews and
after leading the entire world
into war as well as committing
numerous war crimes he
certainly deserves a spot on
this list.

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Mao Zedong of China
Famous for being one of the
communist leaders of the
Republic of China beginning
around World War II, Mao
Zedong was a ruler who
thirsted for power. In his first
five years, he killed about 4 to
6 million by indiscriminately
sentencing them to death. His
policies also starved about 20
million and on top of that he
had numerous enemies of the
state executed.

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Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya
Gaddafi was a controversial
and highly divisive world
figure. Conversely, he was
internationally condemned as
a dictator and autocrat whose
authoritarian administration
violated the human rights of
Libyan citizens, and supported
irredentist movements, tribal
warfare and terrorism in many
other nations.

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Abraham Lincoln
urn the pages of America's
political history, and you are
sure to find one man who
clearly outshines all others and
manages to attract the
attention and interest of all, till
date, - Abraham Lincoln! He
was a saviour of the Union and
an emancipator for the slaves.

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Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
The rising and shinning face of
Burma's (present day
Myanmar) claim for
democracy and human rights,
Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the
most prominent political
leaders of the country and one
of the world's most prominent
political prisoners as well. she
has suffered more than 15
years of detention, most of it
which was under house arrest.
She has been felicitated with
prestigious awards such as the
Nobel Peace Prize and
Congressional Gold.

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Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
The longest living Dalai Lama,
Tenzin Gyatso is the 14th and
the present Dalai Lama and
holds the profile of a spiritual
and political leader of Tibet.
Head monk of the Gelugpa
lineage of Tibetan Buddhism,
Dalai Lamas are said to be
reincarnated souls in the line
of tulkus, who are considered
to be manifestations of the
bodhisattva of compassion.
Spiritual leader of Tibetan
Buddhism.

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Fidel Castro of Cuba
Fidel Castro is one of the most
prominent communist leaders
of the last century. He was the
Prime Minister, President and
Commander-in-Chief of Cuba
and made the country a one-party
socialist state. Castro
started off as a rebellion
against right-wing
governments in the Dominican
Republic and Colombia and in
a matter of time became the
leader of the communist
revolution and ruled Cuba for
almost 6 decades.

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Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
Hugo Chavez was one of the
most influential figures of the
Venezuela politics, who was
elected as the President of the
country for four consecutive
terms until his death in 2013. A
practitioner of Chavism, which
is a political ideology that
combined Bolivarianism and
Socialism, he sought to
implement various socialistic
principles and policies to
alleviate the inequality in the
society and uplift the
standards of the poor and the
downtrodden.

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Kofi Annan of Ghana
Kofi Atta Annan, a diplomat
from the West African country
of Ghana was the first to
emerge from the ranks of
United Nations (UN) staff to
serve as the Secretary-General
of the UN. He served as the
seventh UN Secretary-General
from 1997 to 2006. The UN
and Annan were jointly
awarded the The Nobel Peace
Prize 2001 "for their work for a
better organized and more
peaceful world".

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Margaret Thatcher of Great
Britain
'I fight on, I fight to win' asserted
Britain's first female Prime Minister
and leader of the British
Conservative Party; and win she did.
She won three consecutive terms of
office in two decades and became
the only British Prime Minister in the
twentieth century to do so. One of
the most influential Prime Ministers
of Britain, she was also the most
debated stateswomen of the
century, earning both respect and
hatred from the public, particularly
for her treatment of trade unions

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah of
Pakistan
The founder and the first
Governor General of the state
of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali
Jinnah was one of the most
influential political leaders in
the Indian subcontinent during
the British rule. A lawyer by
profession, this eminent
politician and statesman held
several important positions in
his lifetime and gradually
became instrumental in
creation of Pakistan.

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Nelson Mandela of South
Africa
Ironically, his baptized
forename, 'Rolihlahla' meaning
'troublemaker', blended well
with his personality over the
growing years as Nelson
Mandela caused serious
trouble to the government of
South Africa, through this anti-apartheid
movement and
revolutionary ways. Inheriting
the 'proud rebelliousness' and
'sense of fairness from his
father, Mandela was raised in a
Methodist Christian
community.

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Yasser Arafat of Palastine
asser Arafat was a leader of
the state of Palestine and 1st
President of the Palestinian
National Authority. The leader
is also known as the Chairman
of the Palestine liberation
Organization who founded the
secular political party Fatah in
1959, stepping in as its leader.
Mainly known for his anti-
Israeli stance, Arafat pushed
the country in to a long war
with Israel in the name of self-determination.