Press Conference #2 (First List)

Question 1

• Leader of the Soviet Union
• Put up the Berlin Wall

Answer 1

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 2

• “Thatcher the Milk Snatcher”
• United Kingdom’s 1st female Prime Minister

Answer 2

Margaret Thatcher

Question 3

• President of the Soviet Union
• Made a deal with Ronald Reagan to destroy all nuclear-tipped missiles
• Worked to undo a lot of Stalin’s influence
• Communist

Answer 3

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 4

The first woman vice presidential nominee; opened the door for women to be in that position

Answer 4

Geraldine Ferraro

Question 5

• First democratically elected leader of Russia
• Russia’s “George Washington”
• Got along with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush

Answer 5

Boris Yeltsin

Question 6

• 19th President of Syria (Socialist)
• Still ruling
• Syrian Military

Answer 6

Bashar al-Assad

Question 7

• President/leader of Russia
• was basically a “spy”

Answer 7

Vladimir Putin

Question 8

Prime Minister of Japan

Answer 8

Fumio Kishida

Question 9

• Supreme Leader of Afghanistan
• Does public executions
• Women’s and girls rights have been reduced
  More of a religious leader than a military leader

Answer 9

Hibatullah Akhundzada

Question 10

• Lead lawyer in Brown v. Board of Education case
• First African American on the US Supreme Court (very liberal)

Answer 10

Thurgood Marshall

Question 11

• Leader of North Korea
• Killed his uncle
• Nobody really knows his age

Answer 11

Kim Jong Un

Question 12

• Youngest Prime Minister at 42
• Prime Minister of United Kingdom

Answer 12

Rishi Sunak

Question 13

• Youngest elected leader in Europe
• President of France

Answer 13

Emmanuel Macron

Question 14

President of China

Answer 14

Xi Jinping