What political system features a single ruler with absolute power, often inherited?

At its peak, Germany had 440,000 of these in 1992, but less than 100,000 last year. What are we talking about?

Which European adversaries signed a 1998 treaty to end a long-standing bloody conflict?

In 1958, Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but negative Soviet reaction forced him to refuse the honor. For which novel was Boris Pasternak awarded the Nobel Prize?

Can you identify the Chief Justice of the US Supreme court?

Who were Richard Nixon's two Vice Presidents?

Which current presidential candidate has the same name as a magazine?