Can you name the G-20 Members and Leaders?

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G-20 Members Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: April 3rd, 2009
Category: History
Plays: 65,781

Tags: member, leader, g-20, G-20 Members, world history pack

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	xander:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:09 GMT	24 points
	Haha what a perfect first comment. This is sporcle isn't it? Might as well get the UK/England debate going early... As for the quiz the last one was pretty tricky (though there was a hint) and guessing the leaders was tough, but cool to see the list afterwards. I should definitely learn about who these people are

	HalfWelsh:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:12 GMT	23 points
	What? No Kiribati??!!

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	Tchaikovsky08:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:17 GMT	14 points
	Why doesn't "Rudd" work for "Kevin Rudd"? Other last names are sufficient.

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	RobH:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:24 GMT	4 points
	Why did I have to type the full name of Australia's PM but none of the others'? Good quiz. Got all the countries but missed out the last member (even though I knew they were represented!), and a decent number of the representatives. 28.

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	ShepherdBook:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	44 points
	Not having the last member listed alphabetically really threw me off. I kept typing in nations that began with U, V, Y and Z.

	lulubelles:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:50 GMT	37 points
	same here shepherd brook, though i had to laugh at myself when i typed 'zimbabwe'

	BigDave:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	13 points
	Exactly the same with regards to the EU. Didn't get it early on and with one space left typed some classics - Zambia and Uruguay were highlights. Otherwise a great quiz.

	cmkeller:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	12 points
	Ditto - I thought maybe Hugo Chavez got Venezuela in there. Nope, just a mis-ordered item.

	DoubleUnderscore:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:27 GMT	2 points
	17 countries, 6 reps. I'm quite happy with that. Wasn't too unhappy with the ones I missed, especially not the representatives.

	darth_shrimper:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:31 GMT	8 points
	Kirchner should be enough for Argentina

	Mr_T:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:33 GMT	17 points
	Don't most Asian names list surnames first? For instance, South Korea's Lee Myung-bak is Mr. Lee, not Mr. Myung-bak. So we should get credit for typing "Lee" and no credit for typing only "Myung-bak." The same may go for representatives of other nations.

	Escaho:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:37 GMT	9 points
	I didn't even think of the EU for this quiz (was only thinking of countries, not a combination of them). I recommend putting the EU in alphabetical order within the list. It would've been MUCH easier to figure out then thinking the last member came after the US alphabetically.

	CarpeDiem:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:41 GMT	1 point
	Excellent game, Sporcle! Sadly, I'm like xander and really need to pay more attention to who these people are. I mean, I should at least have heard of them. ;-}

	slew:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:23 GMT	16 points
	How many people got Hu by trying Hungary for country?

	JohnJF:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:30 GMT	0 points
	19.2% of people didn't know Barack Obama? Really?

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:38 GMT	0 points
	Great quiz, absolutely loved it - given that 12 of these are new members in the last few months, it's nice and challenging! I can see why the EU isn't listed under E, because if memory serves it's officially Union Europeene (there's a load of accents on those Es). Even so, though, it should come above the UK and the USA. Frankly, I would have put it in English alphabetical order, as an E, but that's just me. Anywho, I got all the members eventually and a handful of the leaders, more like this please.

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:40 GMT	1 point
	@JohnJF: Given that Sporcle is played the world over, perhaps it's a spelling thing? Alternatively, maybe people ran out of time trying to get the countries and never attempted the leaders.

	sactoshc:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 22:11 GMT	0 points
	25 correct...stumped by the EU and several of the leaders. Another great History quiz!

	marpocky:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 22:44 GMT	11 points
	@ JohnJF, Joe Ball: I suspect it has more to do with 19.2% of people not realizing the "representative" is the President/PM/leader of the country.

	expat:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 22:55 GMT	1 point
	@Iamyourfatherluke ... Kirchner is DEFINITELY enough for us in Argentina and hopefully she (and her husband) will be gone in the next election.

	ntnon:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	8 points
	The EU is rightly listed last because the "G20" is actually the "G19 + 1." A Group of 20 Finance Ministers, comprised of nineteen of the worlds largest economies and the EU. Odd then that the representatives listed here are the heads of state, not the respective finance ministers... Darling and Geithner and all those people.

	Zalx:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	8 points
	i expected this quiz to pop up this weekend and as such, took pains to learn a few of the leaders. how sad is that! i know there is no good reason, but i am eternally surprised to not see spain on these lists. one day maybe...

	Rick:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT	0 points
	@ Mr T. Perhaps a reason for not accepting Lee is because of how common that name is. Korea has a few very common family names like Kim, Park and Lee and it would be very easy to just try those and hope. According to Wikipedia, about 15% of ppl are called Lee. Compare that to about 1% of ppl in the UK or US called Smith and you realise how common a name it is.

	swellwrench:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 00:53 GMT	4 points
	Um, so? Just because something's easy to guess doesn't mean we should just arbitrarily not allow it. Should "Hu" not be enough because of people like the above commenter getting it when guessing "Hungary?"

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	AtomicIce:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:04 GMT	2 points
	I don't know if I'm the only one that suggested this, but I just sent in a suggestion for this yesterday-- I sign in today and there it is. :) I wasn't expecting the leader/representative column to be there though. Unfortunately, the entities I suggested for bonus answers didn't make it. :(

	Jordan117:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:23 GMT	1 point
	I'm surprised only 80% of people knew the President of the United States. (Unless maybe they didn't know that the president is the representative for the US).

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	The_Snakes:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:47 GMT	-1 points
	I only guessed European union with about 5 seconds left after guessing about every country that would come after USA in the alphabet. I only got 4 of the reps, Obama, Brown, Sarkozy and Berlusconi.

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:51 GMT	4 points
	@Rick: As opposed to the less-common Singh for the Indian PM. :P

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	AntieAnnie:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	8 points
	What about the idiot that was so caught up on the countries and gave up when there were two left? Then realized that all of the leaders were left blank??? Oh... that was me. :(

	GoonerLover66:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 07:23 GMT	-3 points
	Really? We have to completely type out Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva? Why? Kirchner and Abdullah are accepted for Argentina and Turkey respectively? It's a little bit inconsistent

	adal:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 09:14 GMT	2 points
	@goonerlover: it accepts "lula"

	Statto2:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	3 points
	Am I only one who's ever thought Lula was a football-style nickname like Pele? @Rom - UK's Prime Minister is Scottish!