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Legal rights and Democracy around the world

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  • In the United Arab Emirates legal voting ages is?
    27
    18
    21
    25
  • The first female prime minster was elected in which country?
    UK
    Sri Lanka
    Pakistan
    India
  • Who said: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.”
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Winston Churchill
    Abraham Lincoln
    Margaret Thatcher
  • True or False: it's illegal to note vote in Australia?
    True
    False
  • Which country first had a democracy?
    Ancient Greece
    The UK
    Ancient Rome
    The USA
  • In Scotland the legal age for voting is?
    17
    19
    18
    16
  • True or False: in the USA, not until the 1965 were voting rights secured to African-Americans
    False
    True
  • The first 'constitutional monarchy' was in which country?
    Belgium
    Japan
    Denmark
    UK
  • What percentage of world countries (with a population of 500,000 or more) are considered democratic?
    51%
    54%
    59%
    57%
  • The Magna Carta was written in which year?
    1275
    1235
    1215
    1255
  • Which country was the first in the world to give women the vote?
    New Zealand
    UK
    Australia
    USA
  • True or False: in the UK the King or Queen decides the date of a general election?
    True
    False
  • Being a 'representative democracy' which country has served as a model for most modern democracies?
    the USA
    Finland
    Canada
    UK