Can you name the countries by their political leader in 1970?

Leader	Country	Function
Fidel Castro		Chief of Communist Party
Richard Nixon		President
Georges Pompidou		President
Indira Gandhi		Prime Minister
Muammar al Gaddafi		Leader of the Revolution
Nicolae Ceausescu		Chief of Communist Party
Chiang Kai-shek		President
Julius Nyerere		President
Georgios Papadopoulos		Prime Minister
Le Duan		Chief of Communist Party
Golda Meir		Prime Minister
Eduardo Frei/Salvador Allende		President
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz/Luis Echeverria		President
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi		Shah
Willy Brandt		Chancellor
Park Chung-hee		President
Yakubu Gowon		President
Janos Kadar		Chief of Communist Party
Hassan II		King
Francois Duvalier		President
Yahya Khan		President
Harold Wilson/Edward Heath		Prime Minister
Emilio Medici		President
Jean-Bedel Bokassa		President
Suleyman Demirel		Prime Minister
John Vorster		Prime Minister
Mao Zedong		Paramount Leader
Hussein I		King
Rafael Caldera		President
Francisco Franco		Head of State
Pierre Trudeau		Prime Minister
Ne Win		Chief of sole political Party
Leopold Sedar Senghor		President

Leader	Country	Function
Leonid Brezhnev		Chief of Communist Party
John Gorton		Prime Minister
Eisaku Sato		Prime Minister
Gamal Abdel Nasser/Anwar El Sadat		President
Alfredo Stroessner		President
Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz		King
Olof Palme		Prime Minister
Suharto		President
Haile Selassie I		Emperor
Gustav Husak		Chief of Communist Party
Norodom Sihanouk/Lon Nol		Head of State
Marcelo Caetano		Prime Minister
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr		President
Juan Carlos Ongania/Roberto Levingston		President
Joseph Mobutu		President
Josip Broz Tito		Chief of Communist Party
Houari Boumediene		President
Anastasio Somoza Debayle		President
Ferdinand Marcos		President
Mariano Rumor/Emilio Colombo		Prime Minister
Makarios III		President
Kim Il-sung		Chief of Communist Party
Mohammed Zahir Shah		King
Josef Klaus/Bruno Kreisky		Chancellor
Habib Bourguiba		President
Walter Ulbricht		Chief of Communist Party
Lee Kuan Yew		Prime Minister
Milton Obote		President
Juan Velasco Alvarado		President
Nguyen Van Thieu		President
Dudley Senanayake/Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Prime Minister
Wladyslaw Gomulka/Edward Gierek		Chief of Communist Party
Jomo Kenyatta		President

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Countries by 1970 Leaders Quiz

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	goofymuffin:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 04:31 GMT		14 points
	Good quiz. Could possibly use just a little bit more time, maybe just another minute or two.

	tvfan2:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 04:41 GMT		6 points
	Republic of China should be accepted for Chiang Kai Shek. Chiang's government always maintained that it was the legitimate government of all China and pointedly did NOT identify itself as "Taiwan" (something the RoC continues to follow officially). They maintained that they were the Republic of China, maintaining government continuity from the pre-Communist nationalist government established by Sun Yat Sen and that the occupation of mainland China by communists no more invalidated their claim to legitimacy than did the occupations of large swaths of China by the Japanese in the 30s and 40s did. Indeed, in 1971, the Republic of China was still officially recognized as "China" by the United Nations (it would be the next year when the UN would recognize the PRC as the legitimate government of China), thus making the identification of Chiang as ruler of "Taiwan" even more bizarre.

	QuintFan:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 05:12 GMT		6 points
	This is a very good quiz, very tight, no noticeable errors. It showed me where my knowledge gap is: Latin America. I'm a Spanish teacher, and I know history pretty well, but those guys are just not on my radar. I doubt they're on many people's radars. A handful of the Middle Easterners too. I would say I'll work on that, but I doubt most of those guys affected history much. The main problem with Hispanic leaders is that you can't GUESS, other than within a 20-nation margin. Hispanic names are the same the world over, so it's not like Greece or something: if you don't know Giorgios Papadopolous, you can certainly guess that it's either Greece or Cyprus if you have any name knowledge. Very thought-provoking and educational.

	yellomellojello:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 06:53 GMT		4 points
	31.1% got Kenyatta. C'mon folks, we can do better than that.

	juusosieni:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 09:43 GMT		-3 points
	No Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic :(.

	juusosieni:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 09:45 GMT		10 points
	Hmm... Turdakun Usubaliyevich Usubaliyev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia in 1970.

	gortan:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 10:24 GMT		5 points
	I understandwhat tvfan2 is saying about China. However since Mao Zedung's Government was the de facto controller of the mainland territory of China, I think it reasonable to place him as leader of that country. Chiang Kai Shek may have been leader of a government that lay claim to China, but the reality was that they only controlled Taiwan.

	Krzysztof:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 11:52 GMT		1 point
	Italy's result is really poor, I'm sure it would increase with the choice of the two mmuch more recognized Prime Ministers of the 70s: Aldo Moro and Giulio Andreotti (Andreotti served 3 terms, with 5 different cabinets, for a total of three years, the longest of the 70s five Prime Ministers. Aldo Moro served about 2 years, but he was also Prime Minister for more than 4 years in 1963-68, and of course he was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, so most people must have heard about him.)

	RGJ:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 12:50 GMT		6 points
	@yellomellojello: I think more people would get Kenyatta if he wasn't right at the bottom of the list. I imagine a lot of people ran out of time by then or were panicking too much to think logically.

	Statto2:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 13:18 GMT		7 points
	Boy there's some rogues on here - Mao, Brezhnev, Franco, Gaddafi, Ceausescu, Marcos, Duvalier, Suharto, Ulbricht, Vorster, Stroessner etc. Nixon doesn't look so bad in this company!

	meowie:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 14:00 GMT		5 points
	Saw Khaddafi on the front page and immediately started hearing "Meet the new boss...same as the old boss" in my head. Thank you Pete Townshend!

	icing:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 14:41 GMT		2 points
	I love these "historical leader" quizzes, thanks Milan! For better or worse, I'm old enough to remember when quite a few of them were actually in power. I always crash and burn on the African leaders, though :( As Statto2 says above, some real charmers in this group!

	lucia:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 15:17 GMT		3 points
	You should point out in the "Function" columm that some of these leaders, even presidents, were in fact dictators. For example, Medici in Brazil. He was president, but it was a dictatorship, same as in cuba, except for the fact that it was a military right wing dictatorship widely supported by the US government.

	marzoz10:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 15:33 GMT		6 points
	Burma is used for Myanmar in the answer, so shouldn't Zaire be for DRC? But so much for my history lesson, I forgot to split Germany and Vietnam into two!

	dancastro:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 15:52 GMT		6 points
	@QuintFan: it isn't your fault not knowing most Latin American presidents, especially of this period. They were mainly military dictators, and after overthrowing a civil government, usually a general overthrew another, so the terms of the military presidents were short. Argentina had a total of 48 presidents (elected + military) since 1853 (versus 44 for the USA since 1789). And I think the record for Bolivia or the Central American countries is still worse.

	Scorpio:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 21:45 GMT		4 points
	Burma was the official name of the country at that time, Zaire wasn't, so I suppose its ok the way it is. And sometimes its very subjective who can be called a dictator. Is Chavez a dictator? Or Mubarak? Or Brezhnev and Ullbricht? In fact, Haile Selassie was a dictator, but few people would call him so. I prefer to only name the official title.

	phibbyfan:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 22:55 GMT		1 point
	A little more time would be nice. I didn't get to the end. Kenya's founder is lonely down there, but would probably be at the top if he wasn't at the end.

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	quent1979:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 00:25 GMT		2 points
	Since we are in the Seventies time frame, shouldn't we refer to them as they were commonly known then....Mao Tse-tung and Myammar Khadafy?

	hikeeba:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 00:29 GMT		4 points
	And now for tonight's top story - Francisco Franco is still dead.

	tvfan2:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 04:26 GMT		3 points
	Gortan, I think it's reasonable to accept "China" for Mao and "Taiwan" for Chiang. What I didn't find reasonable was that "Republic of China" was not accepted for Chiang since that was and is the nation's formal title.

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	alameda:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 15:58 GMT		0 points
	i'm really shocked how few got Trudeau...

	Panther:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 21:38 GMT		3 points
	you should accept DDR and BRD for east and west Germany

	meowie:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 22:22 GMT		3 points
	@panther: DDR and BRD are, of course, abbreviations for the official names, but in German. The common English abbreviations were GDR and FRG.

	wise_pine:	Nov 23rd, 2010 at 01:01 GMT		0 points
	http://www.sporcle.com/games/wise_pine/NACountries

	Penny:	Nov 23rd, 2010 at 01:20 GMT		1 point
	A bit surprised by the low recall of Somoza, given the whole Sandinista --> Iran-Contra history. But then, I came of age in the midst of all that.

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	jessbowen:	Nov 24th, 2010 at 16:20 GMT		1 point
	I'm so irritated at myself for missing Papa Doc. I was trying every former French colony in Africa, but I knew I knew it! Great quiz! I like how there was a mix of easy ones, guessable ones, and tough ones.

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	EatMorePossum:	Nov 27th, 2010 at 23:13 GMT		1 point
	Very nice quiz. Would have gotten Gomulka and Kenyatta but ran out of time before I got to them.

	CrackityJones:	Dec 11th, 2010 at 05:03 GMT		1 point
	ok wow. I was bad at that. Need to learn how to spell some of these places among other things.

	Dani:	Mar 4th, 2011 at 16:25 GMT		1 point
	Thanks, Steig Larsson, for Olof Palme!

	Beatlezfann:	Mar 27th, 2011 at 01:23 GMT		2 points
	or gadaffi, gaddafi, qadafi, or kaddafi, so on and so forth

	Mark:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 08:20 GMT		1 point
	doy, totally forgot about Senghor.