Probably because nobody cares about Spain anymore. They peaked earlier than many of the once-great European powers and have had longer to fall. Spanish leaders do show up on my World Leaders of the World Wars and World Leaders of the 19th Century quizzes. Those were probably the last points in history when Spain had a leader that very many people today could name.
Didn't really like this one. Too many obscure names that most people would never know. And why would they? 11 as an average is about right. Maybe a few more.
Every single one of these names, except maybe 3, have been in the news prominently; most very recently. If you follow current events at all you should know them all. Of the 3 that have not featured prominently in international headlines, 2 of them are Korean names, and since there are 3 surnames in Korea that account for 60% of the population (Kim, Park/Pak, Lee), they're both easy to guess.
Well, I got 12 but totally drew a blank on some I knew such as Erdogan, Arafat, Musharraf, al-Maliki Also managed to misspell Jonathan. Spelled it with an -on on the end.
I regularly take quizzes in German, French, Spanish and my marginal understanding of Dutch. People only seem to complain on the English language quizzes about the answers not being accepted in every other language on Earth. I take foreign language quizzes to maintain fluency in the language of the quiz, not my native language. That would be positively ridiculous.
Great quiz, though I could have done with more time. I recognise pretty much everyone on there, bar the South Korean leaders (sorry South Korea), but I couldn't drag them from the recesses of my mind, and work out how to spell them, in time.
about 60% of Koreans have one of three last names. If you factor that Kim is already taken by North Korea, then you just need to guess the other two. :-) Though Korea's leader has since changed and that's one more thing I need to think about updating on this quiz.
Third time round and it’s one of those quizzes where you read the clue and think “Ohhh what’s his name, I can picture his face, it’s argh ehhh, ahhh next question.” And the same thing happens again.
At least a dozen of them I had to try and drag from the back of my mind. A few of those I missed (still struggling on the South Koreans) I recognised or should have got.
Great quiz though.
Ohh and it needs a bit of an update, or if you just want to rejig the order in Argentina it accomplishes the same thing.
I went through the whole list of world leaders at Wikipedia looking to see if there was anyone else I left off that people would know. Colombia is obviously a much more populous country than Bolivia with a far bigger economy... but while I've seen Evo Morales' name in the news often I don't recall ever hearing about the Colombian president. Part of the equation was how much these people show up in newspapers in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East- so I admit it has a little to do with my own biases. Didn't mean to slight anyone.
Well, a lot of things. He's been a very controversial international figure. Making friends with such great champions of human rights as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Qaddafi; granted awards by some of them. His hard left government has come out against the war on drugs and in favor of cocaine production. His government has been described as the most anti-American in Bolivian history. He has called for and fought for land reform and other socialist/populist issues in Bolivia, and been a strong advocate internationally for anti-American policies, organizations, alliances etc, mostly in Latin America. He's traveled to the US, Africa, and other places making lots of public appearances, frequently saying controversial things, sometimes praised and sometimes criticized for his politics.
Admittedly I would have no clue who that was in 2016 (I also probably followed international politics less then) but recently he's featured heavily in the news because of the coup and, in the past few days, the new elections in Bolivia.
I really need to. I'll try. Since leaving my job in Saudi Arabia... and not having mandatory office hours where I sat at my desk waiting for students to come talk to me who never came... I just have not had the same time that I once had for creating or updating quizzes. But I will try to get to it this week.
You can add al-Baghdadi's death date now. I don't typically enjoy hearing about other people's deaths even when I don't like them, but with as much misery and death as this man has caused, this is one of the few exceptions to that rule.
Actually, lots of these are different now... Brazil, Pakistan, Ukraine, South Korea... If it's too much of a pain to keep it up to date, you could just put ending years on the names you have in there now.
QM - Her last name is Fernández, her husband's last name is Kirchner. (Her husband was president of Argentina immediately preceding her election.) Hispanic last names work like this: [father's last name] [mother's last name] de [husband's last name]. Usually women who take the "de" and their husbands' last names omit their mother's last names, since most record-keeping only allows for two last names, not three. So she would have been born (technically) Cristina Fernández Wilhelm, but she never used her mother's last name (it is less common in Argentina than in, say, México)
Actually, I just realized this is not a linear quiz. Kal left out numerous leaders at different times of different countries, so I guess it's just quizzer's discretion.
About Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the right answer is Fernández, not Kirchner. Kirchner is her husband's name, which is merely used for a reference, not like in English speaking countries. She is called Cristina Fernández, and people add "from Kichner" to specify because her name and surname are too common.
At least a dozen of them I had to try and drag from the back of my mind. A few of those I missed (still struggling on the South Koreans) I recognised or should have got.
Great quiz though.
Ohh and it needs a bit of an update, or if you just want to rejig the order in Argentina it accomplishes the same thing.
I'll defer to any Argentinians who want to weigh in.
Dont know and other Korean names