Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Leaders?

By U.S. News Staff

November 19, 2008 RSS Feed Print

How much do you know about U.S. News's America's Best Leaders of 2008? Find out.

  1. Though raised on cricket, this leader has become an expert on New York Yankees statistics and Chicago Bulls teamwork.

  2. Which leader will be portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in a biopic scheduled for release next year?

  3. This leader is the author of 29 books, including 2004's Winning the Oil Endgame.

  4. Which leader has won a Nobel Prize?

  5. This leader helped found the Shoah Foundation, which archives the testimonies of Holocaust survivors.

  6. Which leader said the following: "I can't ever imagine walking into a room or a meeting and saying, 'Well, we can't do this.' We may not do it, but damn straight, the whole time, we're going to believe we can do it."

  7. This leader had skipped ahead to the ninth grade by the time he was 12.

  8. In his teens, this leader earned $1.10 an hour as a high school janitor.

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