Some questions of my own now...
Easy
1. Which party won the 1959 General Election? Conservatives
2. Who was the first Leader of the Labour Party? Keir Hardie
3. Name the constituencies of the leaders of the three largest parties in the Commons. Witney, Doncaster North, Sheffield Hallam
4. Who is the current Father of the House? Peter Tapsell
Shouldn't be so hard
5. What was the name of the constituency represented by Harold Wilson from 1950 until 1983? Huyton
6. What do Stoke-on-Trent and Bournemouth have in common? All seats in the city won by the same party at every election since year X
7. Who were the following (points for each, I suppose)... Anthony Barber, Dai Grenfell, Cyril Smith, Cecil Parkinson, Billy Wolfe and Tony Crosland.
Barber was Heath's Chancellor of the Exchequer
Grenfell - no idea
Smith - heavyweight Liberal MP for Rochdale
Parkinson - Tory cabinet minister and party chairman who resigned over getting his secretary pregnant
Wolfe - SNP leader?
Crosland - Labour cabinet minister (Foreign Secretary) who died in office
8. What connects T. Dan Smith, Andy Cunningham and Reginald Maulding? Bonus points for knowing who Cunningham was, because most people don't.
Poulson corruption scandal in the 1970s. Cunningham was a Labour party boss whose son was MP for Whitehaven/Copeland.
9. Only one constituency has elected members of four separate political parties since 1945. Name it. Anglesey/Ynys Mon
Maybe slightly trickier. To do with candidates.
10. In which city did the Ted Dexter (captain of the England Cricket Team) unsuccessfully stand for the Conservatives in 1964? Bonus points for naming the constituency and the candidate that beat him. Cardiff South, James Callaghan
11. Which future television playwright was the unsuccessful Labour candidate at East Hertfordshire in the same election? Bonus point for naming the work he wrote based on his experiences as a candidate. Dennis Potter, Vote Vote Vote for Nigel Barton
12. C.B. Fry was a frequent candidate for which major political party during the inter-war period? Liberals
13. Bob Edwards was the leader of the ILP Contingent during the Spanish Civil War and later served as a Labour MP for thirty two years. To which constituency in the Black Country was he first elected for in 1955? Bilston
Fairly hard, I guess.
14. Which sleepy Cathedral City came within 51 votes of electing a Communist MP in 1922? Possible bonus points for a couple of related things. Bath?
15. Name the last Conservative MP for a Manchester constituency. Fred Silvester (Withington, 1983)
16. Who was Austin Donohue in Our Friends in the North based on? Actually this is pretty easy question if you've seen it. T. Dan Smith
17. Which Labour MP had a brief cameo in Edge of Darkness? Again, if you've seen it... Chris Mullin?
18. Who was Sir Herbert Manzoni? Not a clue
19. Which future Prime Minister ordered troops to fire on striking Yorkshire miners? Churchill was South Wales miners, no? I'll try Eden.
20. Who was the MP for Meirionnydd when cult TV classic The Prisoner was filmed in the constituency in the late 1960s? Goronwy Roberts
21. Who represented Hunslet when The Uses of Literacy was first published? Hugh Gaitskell?
Very Important Question
22. Pronounce 'Gala' in the context of the Big Meeting. Gey-lah?
