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« on: August 15, 2011, 12:49:27 PM » |
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1 - Cameron, Tory
2 - House of Commons, House of Lords
3 - Ed Miliband, Labour
4 - Tories, LibDem
5 - PC, SNP, DUP, SF, SDLP, Alliance, Greenies.
6 - Brown, Labour
HISTORICAL
7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?
Unionist
8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street?
First Lord of the Treasury
9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?
Churchill?
10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?
Thatcher, 1983, Tories?
11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?
no clue
12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?
Ramsay MacDonald, no? in the 1920s?
13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?
I once knew
14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?
Harold Wilson?
DEVOLUTION
15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?
ooh... not Jack whatevsky... Donald Dewar?
16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?
Salmond
17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?
Carwyn Jones
18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?
Martin McGuiness
DIFFICULT
19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?
Diana's death??
20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.
I know there was one with an Indian name.
21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?
Whigs, Liberals, Alliance (with the SDP), Liberal and Social Democrats, LibDems
22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]
EdM, DavidM, Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham
23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?
being an asshole
24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?
His constituency? Buckingham
IMPOSSIBLE
25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?
?
26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?
I knew this. Lloyd George?
27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?
Barking and Dagenham, some Labour person
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