• 1. 
    Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos?

  • Corazon Aquino
  • Benigno Aquino III
  • Fidel Ramos
  • Manuel Roxas
  • 2. 
    Which U.S. president signed the most comprehensive civil rights law in the country’s history?

  • Ronald Reagan
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Harry Truman
  • 3. 
    Who was the world’s first woman prime minister?

  • Indira Gandhi
  • Golda Meir
  • Margaret Thatcher
  • Sirimavo Bandaranaike
  • 4. 
    Which British act contributed much to the spirit and organization of unity that was a necessary prelude to the American struggle for independence a decade later?

  • Marriage Act
  • Revenue Act
  • Stamp Act
  • Child Labour Act
  • 5. 
    Which best-seller of the 1790s demanded public education, pensions, maternity benefits, and full employment?

  • Pig’s Meat
  • An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
  • Rights of Man
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • 6. 
    With which revolution is Bloody Sunday of 1905 associated?

  • Glorious Revolution
  • Russian Revolution
  • American War of Independence
  • French Revolution
  • 7. 
    When did English crowds chant, “Give us back our 11 days”?

  • when Britain’s calendar was revised
  • during the Nine Years’ War
  • when Manchester United won their “treble”
  • after the death of George I
  • 8. 
    Which American leader was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • George Washington
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 9. 
    Which leader endured a long prison term and later became his country’s president and a Nobel Prize winner?

  • Nelson Mandela
  • Jonas Savimbi
  • Desmond Tutu
  • Jimmy Carter
  • 10. 
    Which South African president ended apartheid?

  • P.W. Botha
  • Nelson Mandela
  • F.W. de Klerk
  • Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
  • 11. 
    Which prime minister of Canada achieved independence from the British Parliament?

  • Lester B. Pearson
  • Brian Mulroney
  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau
  • John G. Diefenbaker
  • 12. 
    Which U.S. politician made the “Checkers” speech?

  • Richard Nixon
  • Bob Dole
  • Gerald Ford
  • Adlai Stevenson
  • 13. 
    Which American labour activist led a five-year strike against grape growers and a nationwide boycott of grapes?

  • Samuel Gompers
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Che Guevara
  • George Meany
  • 14. 
    Which U.S. military hero was the first to gain office by a direct appeal to American voters?

  • George Washington
  • Andrew Jackson
  • John Quincy Adams
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • 15. 
    Which economist wrote a highly critical commentary of the peace treaty ending World War I?

  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • Joseph A. Schumpeter
  • David Lloyd George
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • 16. 
    Who was the first president of the newly independent Republic of the Philippines?

  • Ferdinand Marcos
  • Fidel Ramos
  • Benigno Aquino, Jr.
  • Manuel Roxas
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