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Understanding the Role of Mayors in Different Countries

This quiz tests your knowledge about the role and election of mayors in various countries, exploring local government structures and terminology.

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1 In all the other states the burgomasters are now elected directly by the ________ living in that area.

2 In ________, Mayor is executive manager of city and elected by The Islamic City Council.

3 In councils where ________ are elected representing political parties, the Mayor is normally the leader of the party receiving the most seats on council.

4 In ________ local government is regulated by state statutes.

5 Japan's Local-Autonomy Law of ________ defines the structure of Japanese local governments, which were strengthened after World War II.

6 The term Oberbürgermeister is not used in the three city-states (e.g., in ________ Regierender Bürgermeister ("governing burgomaster") is used).

7 The word intendente is used in ________ and Paraguay for the office that is analogous to a mayor.

8 On ________ councils, the Mayor is generally the member of the Council who acts as ceremonial figurehead at official functions, as well as carrying the authority of Council between meetings.

9 This is common for smaller cities, especially in ________.

10 In ________ municipal titles vary from province to province, but the highest official of a First Nation community holds the title of chief.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Robert DeBlieux, a former mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana, was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city.
  • Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar was the first Mayor of Chennai Corporation, after the mayoralty was reinstated in 1933.
  • Royce Pollard, the mayor of Vancouver, Washington, bought and destroyed Starbucks coffee mugs bearing Portland, Oregon logos in a media stunt to assert his city's independence.
  • Scott Smith is the first person since 1966 to be elected Mayor of Mesa, Arizona without having first served on its City Council.
  • Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs.
  • Paul T. Jordan became the youngest mayor in the history of Jersey City only three years after graduating from medical school.
  • Olav Ulleren, who in 1999 left his position as mayor of Tinn, Norway to become a State Secretary, lost his new position after less than one year.
  • Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States.
  • Lorette Wood served as both the first female city council member and the first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California.
  • Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements.
  • Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970.
  • after being declared defeated, Henry Overstolz successfully contested the mayoral election and unseated James Britton to become the twenty-fourth mayor of St. Louis, Missouri.
  • after being ousted as mayor of Georgetown, Colorado, Koleen Brooks posed topless for Playboy.
  • the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu, Greece, donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor, was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor, Ioannis Kapodistrias.
  • the books of educator and mayor of Holmestrand, Norway, Fredrik Ording (1870–1929), were still being reissued as late as 1974.
  • two of the three daughters of the Louisiana real estate developer and Springhill mayor Jesse L. Boucher became Hollywood actresses.
  • while James Howard was Mayor of Bedford in 1864, he entertained Giuseppe Garibaldi, who planted a Giant Sequoia that was later struck by lightning.
  • nearly 15 years after playing in the 1966 Cotton Bowl, Louisiana State University Tigers quarterback Pat Screen was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge.
  • former professional footballer Don Rossiter served as mayor of Rochester, Kent, during the 1980s.
  • as the mayor in the 1910s of Homer, Louisiana, Andrew R. Johnson worked to bring electric lights and water works to the municipality.
  • as the mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, W.W. Dumas called a curfew in 1969 to halt riots after the fatal shooting of a fleeing black suspect by a white police officer.
  • before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads, numerous manufacturing firms, and was the director of a canal.
  • former Baton Rouge Mayor-President Bobby Simpson worked to end chronic homelessness in his city.
  • Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail, and the first mayor of San Jose, California.
  • Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park.
  • Clarence Lightner was the first African-American elected mayor of any metropolitan Southern United States city.
  • Arsenio Lacson was the first person to be elected to three terms as mayor of Manila.
  • Corippo, despite being a contender for Switzerland's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website, coat of arms, mayor and town council.
  • Daniel Page, the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, helped finance the construction of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
  • David William Thomas, mayor of Minden, Louisiana who also published newspapers, practiced law, and taught at the university level, was called "Renaissance man".
  • wool-stapler George Goodman was a four-time mayor of Leeds.
  • Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869.
  • Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini-Green housing project in 1981.
  • Maltese-born Anthony Perici, a veteran of the British Royal Navy, served as the first full-time mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio.
  • Mayor Tom Weisner once considered outlawing untimely holiday decorations, when citizens of Aurora, Illinois, complained of Christmas decorations abounding during the summer.
  • Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party.
  • Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority.
  • Donald Stephens, recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States.
  • Jacob Aaron Westervelt (pictured), the former Mayor of New York City, attempted to uniform the Police of New York, a move seen by some as "un-American".
  • James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, appointed by the city council in December 2003, but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power.
  • Jasper Goodwill, later a mayor in Louisiana, was given the middle initial "K" by the U.S. Army during World War I as a way to enhance identification of the soldiers.
  • John T. David, a small-town Louisiana mayor, was elected to his parish governing council in 1956, less than a year after resigning as mayor because of two bootlegging convictions.
  • Herman Bagger, a Danish immigrant to Norway, became a member of the Norwegian Parliament and mayor of Gjerpen and Skien.
  • Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie.
  • Eduardo Malapit, mayor of Kauai, Hawaii, from 1974 to 1982, was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States.
  • Elmer Robinson was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco.
  • Gary D. McCaleb, a former mayor of Abilene, once recruited the late Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan to speak to a community gathering in his West Texas city.
  • Hans Prydz came to Nittedal as a physician, but eventually served as mayor of that municipality as well as representing the district in the Norwegian Parliament.
  • centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010.
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