Stephen Tall

I asked the following questions via Twitter on Friday – 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.

You can tackle the first set of questions here.

Easter Quiz (11): Which now deceased Labour MP was once a farm-hand in The Archers?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (12): Which former Conservative cabinet minister's daughter reached number 5 in the charts in 1975?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (13): John Betjeman, according to his biography, had a crush on which future Labour leader at Oxford?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (14): Which former Labour MP won a BAFTA in 1985?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (15): Who said: "I am deeply sorry for the unkind things I said about Liverpool. I had not seen Leeds at the time"?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (16): Who was the first woman appointed to a British cabinet?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (17): Who became the youngest MP when he won the Louth by-election in 1969?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here (disputed here and here, almost certainly correctly).

Easter Quiz (18): How many MPs must be present for a quorum in the House of Commons; how many peers form a quorum in the Lords?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (19): Which state did Robert Kennedy represent in the Senate?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here.

Easter Quiz (20): Who was Britain's longest serving MP, and for how many years was he an MP?

— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014

Answer here. (Disputed here, clarified here/here.)

* 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.