Can you name the sovereign countries by their political leader on January 1, 1960?

Leader	Country	Function
Dwight D. Eisenhower		President
Gamal Abdel Nasser		President
Josip Tito		Chief of Communist Party
Francisco Franco Bahamonde		Head of State
Rafael Trujillo		President
Ahmed Sukarno		President
Walter Ulbricht		Chief of Communist Party
David Ben Gurion		Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd		Prime Minister
Juscelino Kubitschek		President
Fidel Castro		Prime Minister
Konrad Adenauer		Chancellor
Wladyslaw Gomulka		Chief of Communist Party
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi		Shah
Ngo Dinh Diem		President
Idris I		King
Jawaharlal Nehru		Prime Minister
Antonio Segni		Prime Minister
Robert Menzies		Prime Minister
Nikita Khrushchev		Chief of Communist Party
Arturo Frondizi		President
Haile Selassie		Emperor
Hussein I		King
Ho Chi Minh		President
Francois Duvalier		President
Adnan Menderes		Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan		Prime Minister
Habib Bourguiba		President
Janos Kadar		Chief of Communist Party

Leader	Country	Function
Mohammed Zahir Shah		King
Alfredo Stroessner		President
Syngman Rhee		President
Antonio Salazar		Prime Minister
Adolfo Lopez Mateos		President
Sekou Toure		President
Enver Hoxha		Chief of Communist Party
Muhammad Ayub Khan		President
John Diefenbaker		Prime Minister
Norodom Suramarit		King
Charles de Gaulle		President
Kim Il-sung		Chief of Communist Party
Luis Somoza Debayle		President
Saud bin Abdul Aziz		King
Antonin Novotny		Chief of Communist Party
John XXIII		Pope
Chiang Kai-shek		President
Kwame Nkrumah		Prime Minister
Jorge Alessandri		President
Tage Erlander		Prime Minister
Mohammed V		King
Ne Win		Prime Minister
Todor Zhivkov		Chief of Communist Party
Romulo Betancourt		President
Mao Zedong		Paramount Leader
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal		Chief of Communist Party
Ibrahim Abboud		President
William Tubman		President
Julius Raab		Chancellor

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Countries by 1960 Leaders Quiz

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	tvfan2:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 04:49 GMT		16 points
	Republic of China should be accepted for Taiwan. That IS the country's official name and in the 1960s the RoC government was VERY vigorous about NOT being "Taiwan" and maintaining their claim to be the legitimate government of ALL China, albeit one forced into exile temporarily by the more powerful PRC government. In 1960 the RoC controlled China's seat at the UN and so they WERE China for international purposes.

	GabrielOak:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 04:50 GMT		-4 points
	37 right, 93rd percentile. Stroessner tripped me up. I knew he was a South American despot but I just couldn't call "Paraguay" to mind. I should have known "Suramarit" from "Norodom", which was also part of the name of his son, Sihanouk. Outstanding idea for a quiz and a lot of fun.

	moegoldberg:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 04:51 GMT		3 points
	Anyone else get Hoxha because of the Simpsons?!

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	idledandy:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 05:19 GMT		7 points
	Not enough time. I barely had a chance to get through the ones I knew for sure; no time to guess at the rest.

	schulace:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 05:59 GMT		9 points
	Francisco Franco should have been president of France... that'd be like Americano Americo becoming president of the states.

	Moonman190:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 06:21 GMT		0 points
	I'm not exactly sure "Paramount Leader" is the best way to describe Mao Zedong.

	evil_fruit_girl:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 07:05 GMT		20 points
	When Vietnam wasn't right, I rapidly typed in the name of every possible southeast Asian country before remembering the HUGE thing we had called the Vietnam War. doh

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	gelnika:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 09:18 GMT		10 points
	RS89, you're confusing the founder of Saudi Arabia - Abd al-Aziz Al Sa'ud, who died in 1953 - with his eldest son and successor, Sa'ud bin Abd al-Aziz. "bin"/"ibn" means son, so the king of 1960 was Sa'ud, son of Abd al-Aziz. The quiz is right; I'm afraid you're not.

	Twinkle1234:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 09:31 GMT		5 points
	Amazing idea!

	emilkr:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 09:35 GMT		4 points
	Interesting quiz, very fun actually. I got 50 out of 58... but as you accept GDR and Est-Germany for German Democratic Republic you should also accept FRG for the Federal Republic of Germany. You should even accept DDR and BRD respectively as these were the official German abbreviations. West- and East-Germany were never the offical names of these states.

	DerekH:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 09:45 GMT		3 points
	Another minute would have helped a little... Mind you, another ten minutes wouldn't have helped a lot.... ;-) Good quiz!

	blueinfinity:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 10:16 GMT		13 points
	Fidel Castro: Last man standing.

	Bojan:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 10:24 GMT		7 points
	Josip Tito misses last name since Josip is the first name, and Tito nickname. It should be: Josip Broz Tito

	Khazar49:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 11:13 GMT		2 points
	@Bojan: strange for a Milan to miss that... Anyway, great quiz, but ridiculously short time. Almost no time for guessing the ones you don't know. I think it's less fun that way.

	sconeyj:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 11:56 GMT		2 points
	Very interesting quiz. 5 orbs!

	juusosieni:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 12:51 GMT		-1 points
	Hmm.. 4,6 % got Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal. I guess four of one hundred sporclers recognize a Mongolian name. Interesting, in normal community I would think that there are so many smart people but now I think isn't there more.

	healy34:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 12:59 GMT		2 points
	@ moegoldberg. Got it from Inside Man, didn't know it was mentioned on the Simpsons.

	flyingdics:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 14:07 GMT		3 points
	I was surprised to not see Romania on here. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej if you're interested (though I'll admit I was looking for Ceauşescu while doing the quiz).

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	Acronicta:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 15:29 GMT		4 points
	Out of curiosity: how many sovereign countries were there in 1960? And more importantly: is there a similar quiz on current political leaders? A very good idea, just needs more time.

	Dorak:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 15:48 GMT		4 points
	This quiz feels like it needs more time.

	ffi:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT		-1 points
	Was Burma not yet called Myanmar then? Also, DPRK should be accepted for North Korea.

	torerodrizzle:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 16:53 GMT		2 points
	Why doesn't Germany work for Adenauer... I could've sworn... Oh, I'm dumb.

	johnlk:	Aug 17th, 2010 at 17:03 GMT		5 points
	@Acronicta - Missing are New Zealand, five of the Central American republics, five of the South American republics, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Romania, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, (North) Yemen, Nepal, Laos, Thailand, Japan, Malaya. Plus Bhutan and the European microstates besides the Vatican, which might not be considered fully sovereign. I think that everything else is included, but I might be forgetting something. Burma was indeed not called Myanmar until 1989.