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

2. Which U.S. president signed the most comprehensive civil rights law in the country’s history?

3. Who was the world’s first woman prime minister?

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?

5. Which best-seller of the 1790s demanded public education, pensions, maternity benefits, and full employment?

6. With which revolution is Bloody Sunday of 1905 associated?

7. When did English crowds chant, “Give us back our 11 days”?

8. Which American leader was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”?

9. Which leader endured a long prison term and later became his country’s president and a Nobel Prize winner?

10. Which South African president ended apartheid?

11. Which prime minister of Canada achieved independence from the British Parliament?

12. Which U.S. politician made the “Checkers” speech?

13. Which American labour activist led a five-year strike against grape growers and a nationwide boycott of grapes?

14. Which U.S. military hero was the first to gain office by a direct appeal to American voters?

15. Which economist wrote a highly critical commentary of the peace treaty ending World War I?

16. Who was the first president of the newly independent Republic of the Philippines?