Easter Politics Quiz: my starter for 10
by Stephen Tall on April 19, 2014
I asked the following questions via Twitter yesterday – they’re all taken from the now-deceased Punch magazine’s Election 1992 political board game, Landslide. Yes, I have kept it for 21 years in the hope that it would come in useful for a blog-post on a quiet holiday week-end: I’m that far-sighted.
Easter Quiz (1): Who is the only C.20th British PM to have also held – concurrently – the post of Foreign Secretary?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (2): Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase "Bob's your uncle"?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (3): Which future Labour leader was the victorious Labour candidate when Dick Taverne finally lost his seat in Lincoln?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (4): Which TV playwright was East Herts Labour candidate in the 1964 general election?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (4): Scottish Labour MP Jenny Lee was married to which Labour cabinet minister?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (5): Which former Labour cabinet minister attended the same school as John Lennon?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (6): When was payment for MPs first introduced?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (7): Which was the first country to give women the vote?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (8): How many Prime Ministers served during the reign of Queen Victoria?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (8): Which TV programme was presented by the sister of former Conservative party chairman Jeremy Hanley?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (9): Who was the first woman prime minister and which country did she run?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (10): "There but for the grace of God, goes God." Who said this, and of whom?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
The second set of questions appear tomorrow, Easter Sunday…
* Stephen Tall is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice, and editor of the 2013 publication, The Coalition and Beyond: Liberal Reforms for the Decade Ahead. He is also a Research Associate for the liberal think-tank CentreForum and writes at his own site, The Collected Stephen Tall.