Hmm, if I were a grade 8 student (that's Canadian for 8th grader) back in 1959 in a social studies "bee" and I answered one of the following to the question: "Who is the head of state of South Africa"
a. Hendrik F. Verwoerd
b. Queen Elizabeth II


Which answer would get me the prize? Seems that "b" would be a pretty easy answer for lots of questions. What would have been the answer if the "state" was Canada?


Christopher D. Green wrote:

I would bet that the Prime Minister of South Africa under the apartheid constitution was not the Head of State (which was the trivia question posed) but only the Head of Government. Someone known as the Queen would have been the South African Head of State in the late-50s and early '60s, no?

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