Politics quiz — 10 questions
Here are 10 questions from the “Politics & institutions” quiz (583 questions in all), with their answer choices. Try to answer before opening “See the answer”. The selection changes every week.
Which French emperor died in exile on Saint Helena?
- Louis XVIII
- Napoleon I
- Napoleon III
- Charles X
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Napoleon I — He died there in 1821, six years after Waterloo.
Which Athenian procedure could exile a citizen for ten years by a vote on potsherds?
- Atimia
- Dokimasia
- Graphe
- Ostracism
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Ostracism — The name comes from \"ostrakon\", the pottery shard on which the name was written.
Which West German chancellor knelt at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial in 1970?
- Helmut Schmidt
- Willy Brandt
- Konrad Adenauer
- Ludwig Erhard
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Willy Brandt — He received the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for his policy of rapprochement with the East.
Which voting system elects the candidate who comes first in one round, even without a majority?
- Pure proportional representation
- Ranked-choice voting
- First-past-the-post
- Two-round system
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First-past-the-post — It is used notably in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Which US president later became chief justice of the Supreme Court?
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Calvin Coolidge
- William Howard Taft
- Woodrow Wilson
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William Howard Taft — President from 1909 to 1913, he was chief justice from 1921 to 1930.
The UN was founded before the First World War.
- True
- False
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False — The UN was founded in 1945, at the end of the Second World War.
What do we call a regime where one leader holds all power unchecked?
- A parliamentary system
- A dictatorship
- A federation
- A democracy
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A dictatorship — In ancient Rome, a dictator was a magistrate appointed for six months in a crisis.
Which party ruled Mexico without interruption from 1929 to 2000?
- The Labor Party
- The National Action Party
- The Party of the Democratic Revolution
- The Institutional Revolutionary Party
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The Institutional Revolutionary Party — Writer Mario Vargas Llosa called its rule \"the perfect dictatorship\".
In which city is the secretariat of ASEAN, the Southeast Asian nations' association?
- Bangkok
- Singapore
- Jakarta
- Manila
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Jakarta — ASEAN was founded in 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration.
Which minister is responsible for relations with other countries?
- The interior minister
- The defense minister
- The foreign minister
- The finance minister
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The foreign minister — In the United Kingdom, the post is called Foreign Secretary.
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