We have a challenge for all you political junkies.

We suspect you found this quiz hard going. Even if you cheated, and just did the ones in your own country. It's hard to keep track of politicians. They are so inherently unmemorable, most of them. Far less interesting than film stars or rock idols.

However, for those of you who care, here are the answers.

US Presidents of the 20th Century, in order.

1. William McKinley
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. William Howard Taft
4. Woodrow Wilson
5. Warren G Harding
6. Calvin Coolidge
7. Herbert Hoover
8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Harry S Truman
10. Dwight D Eisenhower
11. John F Kennedy
12. Lyndon Baines Johnson
13. Richard Milhous Nixon
14. Gerald Ford
15. Jimmy Carter
16. Ronald Reagan
17. George HW Bush
18. William Jefferson Clinton

And now, the Prime Ministers.

Note: Some of them are listed more than once, because British politics and weird go together like fish and chips. Have fun, Yanks!

1. Arthur Balfour
2. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
3. Herbert Henry Asquith
4. David Lloyd George
5. Andrew Bonar Law
6. Stanley Baldwin
7. Ramsay MacDonald
8. Stanley Baldwin
9. Ramsay MacDonald
10. Neville Chamberlain
11. Winston Churchill
12. Clement Attlee
13. Winston Churchill
14. Sir Anthony Eden
15. Harold Macmillan
16. Sir Alec Douglas-Home
17. Harold Wilson
18. Edward Heath
19. Harold Wilson
20. James Callaghan
21. Margaret Thatcher
22. John Major
23. Tony Blair

This just proves something we've always suspected – British government is unstable. Look at all those leaders succeeding each other…then getting back in…for pity's sake, make up your minds. The US only let that happen once, with Grover Cleveland, and that was only because the old stick-in-the-mud had a sexy wife. On the other hand, the Brits never elected anybody remotely like Harry Truman… Truman's comments on Nixon alone make him unique in the galaxy…

If you knew all of this, we'd like to commiserate with you. You may choose to spread this joy, or keep it to yourself. It's a test of character. Want extra credit? List all the German heads of state since 1870.We double-dog dare you.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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