Politics – every European should know the answers to these 12 questions!

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From 1979 to 1990, Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. What was her nickname?

England's Mother

The Marble Lady

The Steel Lady

The Iron Lady

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Karl Marx, the founder of academic socialism, and Friedrich Engels, one of the main socialist thinkers, both came from:

France

The United Kingdom

Russia

Germany

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Angela Merkel was the first woman to become:

The Chancellor of Germany

The German Prime Minister

The German Secretary of State

The President of Germany

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The Orange Revolution took place between 2004 and 2005 in:

Ukraine

Greece

Portugal

Norway

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Which British politician announced his resignation from the post of Prime Minister after the 2016 referendum in which the majority of British citizens voted agains remaining in the European Union?

David Cameron

Tony Blair

Jeremy Corbyn

Boris Johnson

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The "fall of the Berlin Wall" took place in:

1989

1993

1987

1991

The fall of the Berlin Wall began during the night of 9 November 1989. The wall had been standing for over 28 years.

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Which of the following politicians has never held the position of the French President?

Jacques Chirac

Nicolas Sarkozy

Robert Schuman

François Mitterrand

Robert Schuman served as Prime Minister, twice.

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Francisco Franco was a military dictator in:

Spain

Hungary

Slovenia

Greece

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_____________ resigned from the post of the President of Russia on 31 December 1999 and was succeeded by Vladimir Putin.

Boris Yeltsin

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Sergey Lavrov

Dmitry Medvedev

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_________ was the ninth (and the last) President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the first president of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).

Václav Havel

Miloš Zeman

Mirek Topolánek

Václav Klaus

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Was the Treaty of Paris (1951) that established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) signed by the UK and Spain?

No

Yes

The Treaty was signed by Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Perestroika was a political movement that re-organized the socialist system in the USRR between 1985 and 1991. It was initiated by:

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhail Gorbachev

Nikita Khrushchev

Leonid Brezhnev

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