Memorize these and you could recognize 28.2% of all World Leaders clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fidel Castro | 8 | In 1950 he graduated with a law degree from the University of Havana |
| 2 | Nelson Mandela | 7 | Once sentenced to life imprisonment, he was elected South Africa's first black leader in 1994 |
| 3 | Ivan the Terrible | 6 | 1st Russian ruler to be called "czar", he annexed Siberia &, in 1580, killed his son |
| 4 | Jawaharlal Nehru | 6 | His daughter & grandson have also served as India's prime minister |
| 5 | Russia | 5 | New Year's Day '86, President Reagan exchanged greetings with the leader of this country, 1st time since 1973 |
| 6 | Marshal Tito | 5 | In 1979 rumors linked this 86-year-old Yugoslav leader with a 33-year-old pop singer |
| 7 | Sweden | 4 | Having become a Catholic, Queen Christina moved to Rome in 1654, giving up this country's throne |
| 8 | Stalin | 4 | Just before Lenin died, he urged that this tyrant be deposed as Communist Party secy.-gen. |
| 9 | Saudi Arabia | 4 | 4 sons of the founder of this kingdom have served as its king; 1 reigns now |
| 10 | Saddam Hussein | 4 | This dictator's original surname was Al-Tikriti |
| 11 | Norway | 4 | In 1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland became the 1st female P.M. of this Scandinavian country |
| 12 | Napoleon | 4 | He said, "I have never loved anyone for love's sake, except perhaps, Josephine--a little" |
| 13 | Margaret Thatcher | 4 | The first British prime minister to visit Israel while in office since the British left in 1948 |
| 14 | Idi Amin | 4 | At least 5 governments have been in power in Uganda since this ruler fled in '79 |
| 15 | Golda Meir | 4 | In 1948 she became Israel's 1st envoy to the USSR |
| 16 | Egypt | 4 | Longest reign ever, 94 years, was that of Pepi II, who ruled this country about 2300 B.C. |
| 17 | Benazir Bhutto | 4 | In October 1993 she was elected prime minister of Pakistan for the second time in 5 years |
| 18 | Winston Churchill | 4 | In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again |
| 19 | Helmut Kohl | 4 | He told the US and the USSR in August of 1987 that he was willing to destroy the Pershing missiles in his country |
| 20 | Charles de Gaulle | 4 | In 1962, he asked "How can you... govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese?" |
| 21 | Kurt Waldheim | 4 | To date, he's the only former U.N. secretary- general to be elected president of a country |
| 22 | Romania | 3 | King Michael ruled this E. European country during WWII, but was forced to abdicate in 1947 |
| 23 | Portugal | 3 | Manuel I's son Henry led the inquisition in this country before he became its king |
| 24 | Peter the Great | 3 | In 1724 this Russian leader saved sailors drowning in the Gulf of Finland, caught a chill & died |
| 25 | Louis XIV | 3 | He lived from 1638 to 1715 & was King of France for all but five of those years |
| 26 | Liberia | 3 | In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation |
| 27 | King Hussein | 3 | In 1978 this Jordanian king married Elizabeth Halaby, an American |
| 28 | Ho Chi Minh | 3 | In the 1920s this N. Vietnamese leader worked as an assistant chef under the great Escoffier |
| 29 | George III | 3 | During his reign, England got labor unions & lost the American colonies |
| 30 | Ferdinand Marcos | 3 | Honolulu's mayor suggested this deposed leader should buy the Hawaiian island used in "Gilligan's Island" |
| 31 | El Salvador | 3 | José N. Duarte's terminal cancer has the U.S. nervous about this country's democratic future |
| 32 | Charlemagne | 3 | Lists of French kings usually designate him King Charles I |
| 33 | Brazil | 3 | After serving as president & dictator of this S. Amer. country for some 20 yrs., G. Vargas killed himself in 1954 |
| 34 | Mikhail Gorbachev | 3 | In a 1991 TV interview, Boris Yeltsin admitted that "to a large extent" he didn't like this man |
| 35 | Isabella | 3 | Antonio de Nebrija's 1492 book on Castilian grammar is dedicated to her |
| 36 | Hirohito | 3 | In April 1952 he wrote in a poem, "Cherry blossoms are blooming full today, now is the nation's springtime" |
| 37 | Corazon Aquino | 3 | This female president graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in the Bronx in 1953 |
| 38 | Ayatollah Khomeini | 3 | Currently the only Muslim spiritual leader to head a country |
| 39 | Anwar Sadat | 3 | In a 1983 TV movie, Louis Gossett, Jr. portrayed this slain world leader |
| 40 | (Vladimir) Putin | 3 | His removal of opposing Duma members & jailing of tycoons has made some fearful for democracy |
| 41 | "Baby Doc" Duvalier | 3 | Dumping this leader in 1986, Haitians also campaigned "Down with voodoo, free the zombies" |
| 42 | Yasser Arafat | 2 | He was recently voted in as president of the new self-rule Palestinian government |
| 43 | William the Conqueror | 2 | The Bayeux Tapestry was probably commissioned by this conqueror's half brother, Odo |
| 44 | Wilhelmina | 2 | She was invested in Amsterdam in 1898 and gave up her throne 50 years later |
| 45 | Venice | 2 | After singing a treaty with Turkey, Francesco Foscari, doge of this city, was deposed in 1457 |
| 46 | Turkey | 2 | In "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron mentions the court of Ali Pasha in this country |
| 47 | the Ukraine | 2 | The man seenherewas allegedlypoisonedwhile trying to become president of this former Soviet republic |
| 48 | the Pope | 2 | This elected official also served, until 1870, as king of most of central Italy |
| 49 | The Hapsburgs | 2 | Maximilian II, a member of this royal dynasty, became king of Bohemia in 1562 |
| 50 | Spain | 2 | His father had died, so Alfonso XIII became king of this country at birth in 1886 |