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Can you name the countries (in Africa and the Middle East) associated with these 'names in the news'?
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Name
Country
Is (or Was)
Ali Abdullah Saleh
President
King Abdullah
Monarchs
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Monarch
Benazir Bhutto
Prime Minister
King Mohammed VI
Monarch
Hamid Karzai
President
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President
Omar al-Bashir
President
Joseph Kabila
President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President
Name
Country
Is (or Was)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
President
Ali Khamenei
Supreme Leader
Saddam Hussein
President
Mohammed Bouazizi
Protester and catalyst for what became the Arab Spring
Asif Ali Zardari
President
Moammar Gadhafi
Colonel
Nouri al-Maliki
Prime Minister
Hosni Mubarak
President
Bashar al-Assad
President
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Who's From Where Quiz
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Created Dec 17, 2011 in
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dancastro
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Dec 17th, 2011 at 19:03 GMT
2 points
Only colonel? Didn't Gadhafi ever think of promoting himself to Field Marshal, Generalissimo or something alike?
baseball100
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Dec 20th, 2011 at 21:34 GMT
1 point
Okay.
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