You should win your bet. I read newspapers regularly and am well educated, but could not name 5 current leaders of foreign countries. I doubt that one out of ten randomly chosen Americans would do any better. Hell, most of us cannot name all 48 (or is it 50 now?) States, and few can name the senators and representatives from their own state.

I could do much better that 5 if you did not want current leaders.

I know of Sharon and Arafat, Hussein, and maybe Gadifi is still in charge of Lybia or some other North African country. I know they assassinated Sadat a long time ago, and I think that Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Charlemagne, Louis 14, Mao, and Nehru are all dead..

Now that I think about the subject, I am surprised that the only ones I know are in the Middle East (BTW: I am neither Jew nor Muslim). No knowledge of who is in charge of China, Russia, England, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, et cetera.