History & Myths · World politics
World Politics Trivia Quiz
Power Moves Presidents, prime ministers, popes and summits since 2000: who runs what, where they live, and the moments that went viral.
144 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
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This World Politics Trivia Quiz has 144 questions: 51 easy, 57 medium and 36 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 144 World politics questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Collins named it word of the year for 2016, ahead of 'Trumpism' and 'hygge'. Which word was first used in a 2012 blog post?
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Brexit
The OED credits Peter Wilding, who joined 'British' and 'exit' in a May 2012 post.
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Two days before her death in September 2022, the Queen appointed her final prime minister. Who?
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Liz Truss
The meeting was at Balmoral, not Buckingham Palace, and gave the world its last photos of the Queen.
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During the 2012 Olympics, London's mayor got stuck dangling from what, waving two Union Jack flags?
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A zip wire
Boris Johnson shouted for 'a rope' and 'a ladder'; seven years later he became prime minister.
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In 2023, which former prime minister made a surprise comeback to government as Foreign Secretary, seven years after leaving No. 10?
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David Cameron
He wasn't an MP, so he was made a lord to take the job, and served until Labour won in July 2024.
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In 2018, which prime minister became the first female world leader to bring her baby to the UN General Assembly in New York?
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Jacinda Ardern
Three-month-old Neve sat on her dad Clarke Gayford's lap while Ardern spoke at a peace summit there.
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In 2018, Theresa May poked fun at her own stiff dance moves by dancing onto the Conservative conference stage to which ABBA song?
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Dancing Queen
She spun round and pumped her arms to cheers, then gave her big Brexit speech.
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Which UK prime minister was born in New York and only gave up his US citizenship in 2016?
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Boris Johnson
He was born in Manhattan in 1964 and was Foreign Secretary when he gave up the US passport.
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In December 2024, Mercedes gave Pope Francis the first fully electric version of which famous vehicle?
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Popemobile
The Vatican says every vehicle carrying the pope will be electric by 2030.
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In 2017, Emmanuel Macron adopted a black Labrador cross for the Élysée Palace and named him Nemo, after a captain created by which French writer?
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Jules Verne
Captain Nemo commands the submarine Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, one of Macron's favourite books.
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On 9 September 2015, the Queen passed which of her own great-great-grandparents to become Britain's longest-reigning monarch?
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Queen Victoria
Victoria had reigned for 63 years and 216 days; Guinness also made Elizabeth the longest-reigning queen ever.
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By mid-2026, which cat, adopted from Battersea in 2011 to be the PM's 'Chief Mouser', had served under seven prime ministers?
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Larry
He's the first No. 10 cat with the official title Chief Mouser; David Cameron was the first of his seven PMs.
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In 2024, a joke blue plaque went up outside a Walthamstow Tesco to honour which vegetable, famous for outlasting a prime minister?
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Lettuce
In 2022 the Daily Star livestreamed it beside Liz Truss's photo; she quit after 49 days and the lettuce was declared the winner.
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In 2024, Rachel Reeves became the first woman to hold which top UK job in its 800-year history?
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
On her first day she told Treasury staff it was 'a huge privilege to be the first ever female Chancellor'.
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In July 2026, which former Mayor of Greater Manchester, nicknamed the 'King of the North', became UK prime minister?
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Andy Burnham
He had won the Makerfield by-election weeks earlier to return to Parliament, then took Labour's leadership unopposed.
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In a 2014 speech that became a meme, a future UK prime minister said Britain imports two-thirds of its what, then added 'That. Is. A disgrace.'?
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Cheese
In the same speech she promised to open up new pork markets in Beijing; both lines became lasting memes.
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In December 2019, at 34, who became the world's youngest serving prime minister, leading Finland?
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Sanna Marin
She was Finland's youngest PM ever and only the third woman to lead it.
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In 2021, Japan's Princess Mako lost her royal title and left the imperial family. What did she do to trigger it?
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Married a commoner
Japanese law makes royal women leave the family if they marry a commoner; she then moved to New York with her husband.
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In her New Year's Eve speech for 2023, which European queen stunned her country by announcing she'd give up the throne after 52 years?
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Margrethe II
Her son became King Frederik X on 14 January 2024, with no coronation, just a proclamation.
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There is no keyhole on the outside of which famous black door, so it can only be opened from inside?
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10 Downing Street
Someone is always on duty inside; after a 1991 mortar attack the old oak door was swapped for a blast-proof one.
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Just before the 2025 conclave, the future Pope Leo XIV and his brother kept up their daily phone habit of playing which New York Times game?
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Wordle
His brother said they did it 'to keep his mind off' the vote; the pope also studied maths at university.
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