Can you name the sovereign countries by their political leader on January 1, 2000?

Leader	Country	Function
Bill Clinton		President
Slobodan Milosevic		President
Kim Jong-il		Chief of Communist Party
Tony Blair		Prime Minister
John Howard		Prime Minister
Fidel Castro		Chief of Communist Party
Vladimir Putin		President (acting)
Alberto Fujimori		President
Hosni Mubarak		President
Laurent-Desire Kabila		President
Charles Taylor		President
Islom Karimov		President
Than Shwe		Prime Minister
Ernesto Zedillo		President
Alexander Kwasniewski		President
Robert Mugabe		President
Hafez al Assad		President
Eduard Shevardnadze		President
Jose Maria Aznar		Prime Minister
Saddam Hussein		President
Emil Constantinescu		President
Hun Sen		Prime Minister
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen		Prime Minister
Askar Akayev		President
Mohammed VI		King

Leader	Country	Function
Jiang Zemin		Paramount Leader
Fernando Henrique Cardoso		President
Guy Verhofstadt		Prime Minister
Bülent Ecevit		Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee		Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac		President
Kim Dae-jung		President
Thabo Mbeki		President
Göran Persson		Prime Minister
Nursultan Nazarbayev		President
Ali Khamenei		Supreme Leader
Obuchi Keizo		Prime Minister
Jean Chretien		Prime Minister
Hugo Chavez		President
Vaclav Havel		President
Ehud Barak		Prime Minister
Muammar al Gaddafi		Leader of the Revolution
Gerhard Schröder		Chancellor
Massimo D'Alema		Prime Minister
Abdullah II		King
Lee Teng-hui		President
Fahd bin Abdul Aziz		King
Alexander Lukashenko		President
Pervez Musharraf		Prime Minister
Bertie Ahern		Taioseach

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Countries by 2000 Leaders Quiz

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	STLCARDS52993:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 19:37 GMT		20 points
	Why is there a picture of George Bush?

	segacs:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 19:37 GMT		12 points
	Only 33% got Jean Chretien? He was only PM for a decade... sheesh! And, side note, who are the 13% who didn't get Clinton?

	Juvo415:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 19:48 GMT		23 points
	I remember Kim Jong-il like it was yesteryear....

	dje:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 20:25 GMT		12 points
	@segacs- it might be people who didnt reach him in time because he was in the third column. i wasnt one of those people, but i can see that happening.

	1derfool:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 20:32 GMT		9 points
	Askar Akayev rocks!

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	Happ_Hazzard:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 20:52 GMT		7 points
	@Dantelle: it did, until 2003 when it was renamed Serbia and Montenegro.

	limeade:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 21:12 GMT		15 points
	Maybe a sign of a stimulating quiz: Everyone is so taken up with commenting on leaders and places, I'm the first to say this is a really nice quiz and concept. I like the challenge of recalling news events and examining name forms and trying, too often futilely, to put it all together.

	Bobman1:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 21:15 GMT		5 points
	This kicked my a$$. But 38% right was good enough for 75% percentile, so as one who doesn't read the papers or pay enough attention to current events, I'll take it. Of those I missed, most I would never have gotten. Good quiz. Humbling, which is good sometimes.

	Colmar:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 21:24 GMT		4 points
	Why is that every Soviet-esque surname, it was always the Central Asian ones? It's a lot easier to type 'Latvia' and 'Moldova'!

	Snaffles:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 21:46 GMT		4 points
	This quiz may have shamed me into picking up a newspaper occasionally... just scraped 25%, and that was mostly by typing every country in South America for the Hispanic sounding names until one stuck...

	120watts:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 22:14 GMT		7 points
	you can tell from the names. Latvian/Lithuanian names don't sound anything like Georgian names, let alone Uzbekistani. Some of them are dead give aways: 'escu' for Romania, 'dze' for Georgia. Granted, some are harder, like 'dos Santos' for Angola!

	niamhzie:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 22:17 GMT		2 points
	*Taoiseach

	ffi:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 22:33 GMT		7 points
	I expected someone with the name “Wim Kok” to be East Asian—though of course in retrospect it makes sense that he’s Dutch. Maybe I was just too busy laughing.

	awesmond:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 22:53 GMT		61 points
	Let's be honest... Who typed in random countries after a while?

	mscrub:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:02 GMT		41 points
	Interesting quiz. Would be far more challenging if the answers were leader specific. I just ran off about 100 countries off the top of my head and got 47 of 50.

	alameda:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:11 GMT		4 points
	nice one putting Yugoslavia in there, totally didn't even think to guess defunct countries.

	mccullen:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:21 GMT		7 points
	i must have tried every country in the balkans for milosevic before managing to come to the answer.

	SteveGoodman18:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:22 GMT		41 points
	Answers need to be guessed specific to each name. Otherwise it's just like naming the countries of the world.

	Happ_Hazzard:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:35 GMT		-1 points
	It's been changed since earlier. Omar Bongo has been taken out.

	eab21:	Jan 20th, 2012 at 23:41 GMT		15 points
	You spelled "Qadhdhāfī" wrong. ;)

	FibeDaraEggurow:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 00:25 GMT		19 points
	I definitely feel like this quiz should be leader specific. I was 7 in 2000 and didn't recognize 80% of these names, but somehow I was able to get all 50 right.

	AtomicIce:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 00:57 GMT		50 points
	This is a quiz where you really should have to match your answer with the hint. Otherwise, you can just guess major countries and get a fairly sizable share right with out really knowing anything about the world leaders of 2000, which is ostensibly what this quiz is about.

	geogeorge:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 01:30 GMT		5 points
	Totally agree with Atomic Ice...

	Retracto:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 01:35 GMT		7 points
	Ordinarily these quizzes take you leader by leader. Others have said it already, I'm just piling on.

	Valka:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 01:48 GMT		6 points
	Agree with those guys above, you should have to do it leader by leader, otherwise it's just guessing. Apart from that, excellent idea.

	CJLeopold:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 03:08 GMT		6 points
	Kyrgyzstan! facepalm

	Zaide:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 03:50 GMT		4 points
	Knowing all the countries helped... Except for yugoslavia. I forgot it still existed by then.

	Rayavi:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 04:33 GMT		3 points
	That's odd. When I took the quiz this morning, it WAS clue-specific.

	iceman1731:	Jan 21st, 2012 at 05:44 GMT		1 point
	Yugoslavia!?!? Oh you're a clever one.