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Words for Leaders

We give you the group. You tell us the title given to its leader.
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Last updated: August 28, 2018
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First submittedJuly 13, 2010
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Group
Leader
the United States
President
the Catholic church
Pope
a parliamentary nation
Prime Minister
a city
Mayor
a U.S. state
Governor
an empire
Emperor
Mongolia
Khan
Germany or Austria, before 1918
Kaiser
Nazi Germany
Führer
modern Germany
Chancellor
medieval Venice
Doge
ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
Group
Leader
Russia, before 1918
Tsar
Iran, before 1979
Shah
a duchy
Duke
the Eastern Orthodox church
Patriarch
the Ottoman Empire
Sultan
a ship
Captain
the Roman Republic (co-leader)
Consul
Japan (military dictator, before 1867)
Shogun
a board of directors
Chairperson
a Spanish colony
Viceroy
a Catholic diocese
Bishop
fascist Italy
Duce
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Level 80
May 31, 2013
Not all parliamentary governments/nations have prime ministers; some have presidents (cf the Marshall Islands).
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Level 77
Jan 14, 2016
Yes, the definition for Prime Minister is incorrect, since having one has little to do with being a "Parlamentary Nation". The origin of the title comes from monarchies, where the king named his "prime minister" to rule the realm. I would recommend to change the definition to simply "The United Kingdom (or Greece, or Israel, or whatever).
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
naming a country kind of defeats the purpose of this quiz and even if you do so, you must list them all... so no that would be a bad suggestion imo
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Level 36
Aug 16, 2019
@sifhraven

If naming a country is so bad why are you ok with the US being named?

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Level 66
Feb 12, 2020
I never said I was okay with it, but it is a good point.
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Level 74
Dec 10, 2017
A lot of parliamentary countries have Presidents, but this is largely a ceremonial role. The Prime Minister in most cases is the political leader
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Level 59
Apr 3, 2020
That is true because our leader is actually the Queen, in state occasion terms. Certainly has rank over PM.
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Level 32
May 17, 2020
I just got President, Pope, Prime Minister and Mayor. Did I mention I am 8? Still, I feel like I went pretty badly.
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Level 43
Apr 26, 2021
i would expect an 8 year old to get governor over prime minister but good job
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Level 62
Jul 19, 2021
I would expect an American to not realise that there are people outside of America who don’t use governor, and who’s leader is a prime minister…

If you’re not American then oopsies I’m so sorry

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Level 50
Apr 22, 2014
Medieval Venice had a "Doge," you say?!

So Venice.

Much Leader.

Wow.

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Level 89
Aug 6, 2014
Is this some kind of a callback? I have no context for deciphering this type of thing. It's not quite Yoda, but it's definitely something like that.
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Level 45
Aug 14, 2014
It's what's known as 'Dogespeak'. It's pretty funny.
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Level 47
Mar 22, 2021
Much yes.

Very doge.

Yay.

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Level 49
Mar 31, 2021
ikr thats honestly hilarious lol
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Level 52
Jan 30, 2023
ah, memories
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Level 61
Jan 10, 2015
Love the quiz! 13/24.
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Level 68
Jan 19, 2015
In English, you use the term "Kaiser"?
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Level 55
Jan 14, 2016
Yes
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Level 81
Dec 3, 2016
like tzar
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Level 37
Nov 17, 2017
It's either Tsar or Czar.
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Level 76
Jun 25, 2018
Kaiser, tsar, and czar all come from the Latin for caesar, one answer that I expected to see on the quiz but didn't.
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
caesar is simply his last name, It was not until after caesar that variations of his name started to be equivalent of emperor.
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Level 69
Apr 25, 2021
The term "Caesar" was used during the Roman Empire to denote the heir apparent to the emperor who would be the "Augustus." It was much more than simply Julius Caesar's last name.
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Level 68
Jan 27, 2018
interesting, in Czech we just called these "Kaisers" Emperors (tsar is "car" in Czech so that's the same)
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Level 65
Feb 6, 2022
Yes, I don't know why JetPunk insists on using "tsar" rather than "czar," esp. when the word in cyrillic "цар" transliterates as "car." Czar is ultimately derived from caesar, much as the German kaiser.

Technical entymology:

From Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from Proto-Germanic kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar.

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Level 43
Aug 22, 2022
ц is ts
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Level 75
Jan 28, 2015
A few answers to this quiz are discriminatory. While some titles are typically applied equally to both genders (like "governor" and "president"), some of them are only used for men (e.g. tsar and duke'). Women have held these posts too and it's unfortunate to see a quiz called "Words for Leaders" exclude women in this way. Thank you for using "chairperson." Please fix this quiz.
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Level 63
Jun 24, 2018
Good grief.
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Level 51
Oct 10, 2018
there's always one
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Level 55
Mar 25, 2022
Fortunately
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
Duchess was accepted for duke, I have no idea about the other ones. But really I didnt see a problem here.
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Level 71
Feb 12, 2020
You must be great fun at a party !
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Level 35
Aug 27, 2022
You would be surprised to see DSA members party. Though they reject gender pronouns their passions are not always hostile.
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Level 21
Mar 12, 2020
oh god
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Level 84
May 3, 2020
It accepts female versions of most answers. Though this quiz has me wondering if it's possible for their to be an Orthodox Matriarch. Probably not.
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Level 59
Apr 24, 2021
accepting the answer is good, but accepting the female version and then changing it to male only in the answer list is not good.
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Level 84
Apr 24, 2021
it's fine
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Level 47
Aug 19, 2020
Well the female version of tsar is tsarina, which has the word "tsar" in it, and as soon as you type tsar, the answer is accepted. Same goes for sultan, the female version is sultana. You can't really do anything about it.
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Level 27
May 22, 2022
Unless you paste it or type 'ina'' then go back and type tsar.

But it still wont make much of a difference.

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Level 87
Dec 21, 2020
In Germanic languages, "man" is a pronoun meaning unspecified person. The pronoun one, as in oneself, is used as a standalone in such a sense in English although Americans overwhelmingly use the incorrect pronoun "you" to mean a person in general. The suffix -man still functions the same way. The word originally meant person in general with wereman meaning a male in English. Chairperson just sounds ridiculous.
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Level 73
Apr 26, 2021
someone2018 is right. "Wo" is the female prefix and "Were" is the male prefix. That means a male wolf is a werewolf, and a female wolf is a... wowolf! Wowolf comin' at you! Let's make this a thing! Wowolf 2021! Yeah!
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Level 27
May 22, 2022
she-wolf.

what is a she wolf, i heard the term when i was liek 8 or smn.

Is it a female wolf, or a female anthropomorphic wolf.

The she-wolf is saw was an anthropomorph.

Help i need answers.

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Level 50
Aug 14, 2021
Supportive Answer because there are too few of that.
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Level 49
Feb 20, 2022
cringe
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Level 27
May 22, 2022
why
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Level 52
Jan 30, 2023
Not everything is designed to be sexist, you know. Maybe get off the internet if you get offended by such little things.
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Level 69
Feb 9, 2015
Perhaps triumvir should count for co-leader of Roman Republic? As long as it's before Augustus I think it's acceptable.
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Level 65
Apr 24, 2021
Triumvirate was never an official position in Rome
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Level 82
Dec 18, 2015
I put "duck" by accident for "duke" and laughed rather too much.
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Level 54
Apr 9, 2020
All hail KING QUACKO IV

lololol

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Level 87
Dec 21, 2020
Gene Hackman's semi-literate mispronunciation of the English gunslinger in Unforgiven as the Duck Of Death has always stuck with me.
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Level 50
Apr 26, 2021
Would the currency of the Duckdom be duckats?
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Level 70
Jan 14, 2016
nice quiz 24/24 with 3.11 left
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Level 72
Jan 14, 2016
The title "tsar" was replaced by "emperor" ("imperator") already in 1721 in Russia (Peter the Great).

The last tsardom was the tsardom of Bulgaria (until 1946).

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Level 56
Jan 14, 2016
I'm kinda surprised to see neither king or queen, especially as these have been a round longer than a good chunk of the answers.

Also stuff like Chieftian or something

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Level 27
May 22, 2022
As well as earls, or just monarchs, even.
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Level 59
Jan 14, 2016
suggestion: please accept 'virrey' as viceroy.

That's just how they were called there

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Level 62
Apr 29, 2020
Yep, never once i've here viceroy, Virrey many times.
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Level 49
Nov 15, 2022
What about Nute Gunray?
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Level 93
Jan 14, 2016
please accept PM for prime minister
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Level 42
Jan 15, 2016
Can you also accept governor-general for Spanish colony? Post-1821, the Viceroyalty of New Spain ceased to exist and Guam and the Philippines were ruled directly by the Spanish Crown through the governor-general.
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Level 52
Jan 17, 2016
What on earth is a chairperson? I tried everything from CEO to director to manager.
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Level 86
Jun 24, 2018
You've never heard of a "chairman of the board" or "chair of the board"? It's simply the gender neutral title. A CEO reports to the Board of Directors for most companies, and the chair is the head of that board.
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Level 68
Aug 3, 2016
Parliamentary nation PM thing, already addressed in comments (just do UK or something). Not all empires are ruled by an emperor, but that's a nitpick I guess. Mongolia is ruled by a president, and people get what is meant but more specific would be good. Accept kanzler and stuff for modern Germany, and caliph for Ottomans, and there's the whole consul (triumvir, co emperors, other positions?) thing.
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Level 77
Jul 8, 2017
I thought archbishops outranked bishops.
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Level 76
Jun 25, 2018
They do, but they govern archdioceses, not dioceses. BTW, while this clue is correct, I'd like to point out that many Orthodox and Protestant denominations have bishops, but not all of them are over dioceses.There are various other names used.
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Level 62
Oct 24, 2017
I would have thought the "board of directors" question would have had the answer "CEO" for it.
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Level 37
Nov 17, 2017
A CEO is the Chief Executive Officer of a Company. He/She reports to the Board of Directors, which is headed by a Chairperson.
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Level 71
Dec 1, 2017
Chairperson is a bit of a reach. Managing Director is much more common.
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Level 37
Dec 17, 2017
You know, people being so sick and tired of this pseudo politically correctness is what got Trump elected. (his lunacy was like a breath

of fresh air to many). The differences between the gender-neutral and

traditional appellations don't amount to a hill of beans!

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Level 57
Jan 27, 2019
It's actually quite funny- the people who call people in favour of equality "snowflakes" are the same people who spit their dummies out when they're asked to default to "chairperson" instead of "chairman"

It's a very simple and effortless thing to do, and it makes such a difference to use more inclusive language (it's amazing how the subconscious mind works), and yet they act like it's the most arduous task!

And they say the other group are the weak and easily offended ones!

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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
Anybody that calls anybody else a snowflake, no matter how silly the thing was the other person said ( while a lot of times there is a genuinly good point in there, but yea there are also persons that make an issue of absolutely everything) is done in my book. It shows more about the character of the person that calls someone that, and often those personalities are rather ugly..

same with the you must be fun at parties, often the original comment is actually interesting and has a good point, but yea, sometimes quite boring or a bit too anal/nitpicking. But why the need to trash somebody just because you found their remark boring. That is soo childish, sadly often it is adults making these remarks...

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Level 88
Apr 24, 2021
I'm pretty sure there's more to figuring out how Trump got elected than just PC fatigue.
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Level 55
Mar 25, 2022
You say politically correct, I say polite.
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Level 48
Feb 14, 2018
General Secretary for a Communist Nation?
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Level 65
Jun 8, 2021
if you get it, you get it
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Level 66
Jun 24, 2018
Weird, as a German I would've translated Kaiser as emperor.
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Level 46
Sep 15, 2021
Kaiser is the literal translation of emperor and both Austria and Germany were empires at the time. This definitely needs some polishing as some of the answers (emperor, captain, president,...) are English standard terms while others (Kaiser, duce, shogun,...) are foreign language words used specifically in one or few historical or current nations. This causes trouble mostly because some of these have English translations. (Kaiser -> emperor, Führer, duce -> leader)
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Level 64
Jun 24, 2018
nice one, well done QM
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Level 75
Jun 24, 2018
Great quiz!
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Level 73
Jun 24, 2018
I put Mussolini for leader of Fascist Italy because I couldn't think of the name.
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Level 55
Jun 24, 2018
I was pretty sure the answer for United States was Dotard in Chief.
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Level 60
Jun 25, 2018
really? I guess someone had to screw things up.
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Level 84
Nov 29, 2019
If the Dotard in Chief can't do it by himself his allies in Congress, the media, and the Kremlin should be able to get it done.
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Level 36
Jun 24, 2018
Doge

really venice

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Level 64
Jun 25, 2018
I've never heard the word "chairperson" in my entire life.
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Level 49
Jun 26, 2018
You've heard of chairman...butnow everythink went political corect...therefore person....
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Level 82
Oct 8, 2020
Well a woman can become chairperson as well, don't you think? What's the problem with making language less sexist? And most of the time it is abbreviated as chair anyway.
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2021
because chairman wasnt sexist. The term man means person as in both genders and not specificially male.

It was an unecessary change that create more sexism than it ever solved. The same applies to sportsman.

It would be life everyone demanding we change woman because it has the word man in it.

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Level 67
Jun 25, 2018
I always assumed "Il duce" was just Italian for "duke." Is that wrong? Is it really a separate term altogether?
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Level 75
Jun 26, 2018
I'll bow to those who know the language better, but remember from my History lessons it simply means "The Leader"
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Level 75
Jun 26, 2018
(and so does Duke, so it seems...)
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
it is, but is like king and koning/köning/kung/konge. And kaiser/tzar/czar they all come from the same thing.
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Level 27
May 22, 2022
wait so king kong really just means king king?
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Level 60
Apr 26, 2021
No. Duke in italian is "il duca." "Il duce" is "the leader." While both originate in latin "dux," there is a difference.
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Level 49
Jun 26, 2018
I think kanzler should be accepted in german...
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Level 61
Feb 15, 2019
I only got the US State answer because I remember Arnold being called the Governator, which I very nearly started to type!
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
same haha, I thought man what was it called again, but I couldnt think of it. Then I thought, yea think of schwarzenegger and terminator then it might come to you and instantly I knew.
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Level 84
Jun 1, 2019
Other spellings for counsel? concil? Maybe pontiff for pope?
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Level 77
Jul 3, 2019
I don't think Bishop is especially a Catholic title so the clue is slightly misleading. it's also used in the Anglican Church as well as some Orthodox churches.
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Level 77
Feb 15, 2020
There are Christian denominations without bishops, so the clue can't be "a Christian diocese". Neither can you list all denominations that do have bishops. If the leader of a Catholic diocese is a bishop, this doesn't mean that bishops are not leaders of other groups.
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Level 63
Dec 14, 2019
The Leader of the Ottoman Empire was called the Khalifa.
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Level 32
Nov 3, 2020
Actually, it shouldn't. The title, "Kalifah" was only used for the four people after the major leader in the religion of islam (the religion they practiced). They gave the title, "Khan" and used it throughout the muslim and asian countries. For example, Ghengis Khan was the ruler of the empire that destroyed the Ottomans, taking the title from the people before them.

this got too long QvQ

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Level 83
Apr 24, 2021
"Ghengis Khan was the ruler of the empire that destroyed the Ottomans." Um, what? Genghis Khan died in 1227, and the Ottoman Empire (not really an empire at that point, but the Ottoman polity) was founded in 1299. Perhaps you're thinking of the Timurid invasion of Anatolia and the defeat of the Ottomans at Ankara in 1402? Timur claimed descent from Genghis Khan, but his empire was a new one, and his defeat of the Ottomans was a setback for them, but didn't stop them from capturing Constantinople just half a century later and going on to form one of the world's largest empires, so they certainly weren't destroyed by Timur. The Ottoman Empire didn't fall until 1922. Incidentally, the Ottoman rulers used many titles including Caliph (Khalifa), Sultan, Padishah, Hakan (Khagan, or Khan of Khans) and Caesar.
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Level 58
Jan 12, 2020
Stead of "the United States" you should've written "A Federal Republic", instead of "a UF State" you should've written just "a State".
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Level 60
Nov 17, 2020
No and no. There are federal Republics where the leader is not called the President, like Germany (there's a president but he/she only has a ceremonial role, the actual political leader is the Chancellor) and "state" is too vague a term. It usually is a synonym of "country" and most countries don't have a governor as their leader. Some countries use the word "state" to name their subdivisions, like the US, but that's not its general meaning, so I think it's better not to change the quiz.
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Level 36
Mar 10, 2020
I hate when these quizzes don’t accept fuhrer. I don’t even know how to make an umlaut on my keyboard
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Level 49
May 16, 2020
they should accept fuehrer which is the actual german way of not using the ä,ö or ü. but fuhrer is just wrong. did you know that schwül means humid and schwul means gay? now you know.
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Level 32
Nov 3, 2020
but i didn't need to know that
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Level 77
Jul 29, 2020
Umlauts or other diacritics are never required on Jetpunk, meaning you can always enter u for ü.
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Level 60
Mar 19, 2020
Who else wants to live in medieval Venice?
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Level 62
Apr 29, 2020
Viceroy is not very common used in Spanish colonies.... just saying i come from one and i've never heard that term for our history. More used by the British empire.
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Level 71
May 1, 2020
Very good quiz. Lots of interesting answers and many that can be correctly gotten to by some thinking. Great
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Level 54
May 29, 2020
Germany's leading person is a president. The Chancellor is just head of government.
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Level ∞
May 29, 2020
The President of Germany is a largely ceremonial position. The closest analog would be the Queen in the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Germany

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Level 56
Jul 15, 2020
Hitler was technically the Chancellor of Germany. The Fuhrer was like his pseudonym
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Level 77
Jul 29, 2020
No, Johnny. "Führer" was Hitler's official title. He adopted it after merging the offices of chancellor and president in 1934.
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Level 44
Oct 13, 2020
Mongolia has not used the name KHAN for its ruler since at least 1924 (with the death of the Bogd Khaan and the founding of the Mongolian People's Republic). The current ruler is a President (in English) - in Mongol, (transliterated), Mongol Ulsyn Yerönkhiilögch. If the word Khan is the answer, the question should specify mediaevel Mongolia, or Mongol Empire.
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Level 57
Jan 28, 2021
If you make a part two, Emir, Regent, Lord, King would be good additions
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Level 33
Feb 2, 2021
I've never heard of someone call someone from the board of directors a chair.

I don't think it should be shortened

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Level 42
Feb 7, 2021
It may be ridiculous to see someone being called a chair, but actually I've heard someone say it!
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Level 63
Mar 16, 2021
I typed il duce... :( that should be accepted
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Level 55
Mar 30, 2021
CEO should be accepted as head of board of directors
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Level 88
Apr 24, 2021
They're not the same thing.
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Level 29
Apr 24, 2021
Mongolia does not have Khan in 21th century
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Level 57
Apr 24, 2021
It seems that the archbishop is head of the diocese. The bishop is head of a "titular see".
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Level 77
Apr 24, 2021
No. The archbishop is head of an archdiocese. Only an auxiliar bishop needs a titular see. To be totally correct, the head of a diocese would be the diocesane bishop (Episcopus dioecesanus), but normally you only speak about the bishop of ...
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Level 77
Apr 24, 2021
There are also some bishops who are made into archbishops in a personal sense. That does not mean they are in a region that normally would have an archbishop. There are then regions that are automatically headed by an archbishop. Cincinnati is an archdiocese and is automatically headed by an archbishop while Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Youngstown, and Steubenville are just regular diocese and headed by a regular bishop. Cleveland and Columbus have both had people who were made into archbishops in their own right.
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Level 39
Apr 24, 2021
Doge? Hahahaah
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Level 65
Apr 24, 2021
Khagan should be accepted
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Level 56
Apr 24, 2021
Viceroy wasnt specific to spainish colonies as the term along with governer was used by most european colonial powers.

Chancellor in germany was used between ww1 and ww2 as well as afterwards. It would make more sense to say german republic rather than modern germany

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Level 27
May 22, 2022
coulda sworn the bri'ish put viceroys in india
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Level 69
Apr 25, 2021
Russia didn't have tsars after 1721, when Peter the Great renamed it into "Emperor of All Russia". Tsars were only the leader 1547-1721, after which it was "emperor". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar.
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Level 78
Apr 26, 2021
Your answer for Mongolia stopped being current in the early 17th century - you might want to acknowledge that it's a historic question, as you do for e.g. Iran, Japan.
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Level 43
Apr 26, 2021
cool quiz
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Level 48
Apr 28, 2021
Great quiz. Just missing one very important leader name. Supreme leader (Kim jong-un) LOL
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Level 27
May 22, 2022
xi jingping
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Level 61
Jun 5, 2021
Fun quiz
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Level 82
Jul 28, 2021
Russian leaders after Peter the Great were emperors, not Tsars.
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Level 84
Oct 14, 2021
Tsar was still used to refer to Russian emperors until 1917.
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Level 24
Dec 19, 2021
DOGE
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Level 62
Feb 2, 2022
Fun quiz. I kept putting "metropolitan" instead of patriarch! Now I have to look that one up.
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Level 57
Mar 3, 2022
Shouldn't Triumvir be accepted for the leader of Roman Republic?
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Level 63
Mar 16, 2022
I forgot how to spell Fuhrer and even tried H*tler in desperation
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Level 30
Apr 13, 2022
Why "United States" specifically ? Again americans want the world to revolve around them
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Level 33
Apr 14, 2022
You could also add Caliph.
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Level 56
Oct 25, 2022
TBH, russian rulers from 1722 to 1918 was emperors either
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Level 32
Jan 8, 2023
I kept putting the first "r" in "Führer" before the "H". Very annoying but only myself to blame.
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Level 51
Mar 6, 2023
what is the difference between prince and duke?