Weekly Quiz

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I thought to myself, why ever not. If it works it works, if it doesn't, it's not exactly a time consuming thing to do so, hah. I'll stick some questions up every week. In each case the winner will be the person with the most right answers. There will be bonus questions, just because.

First set of questions up soon; all based on a newspaper article from 1987.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

During the '87 election campaign the Observer did what Sunday newspapers often do and asked well-known people how they'd vote. They managed to get an unusually (but not entirely) interesting selection that year for whatever reason. I've only listed (some) of the better known ones.

Anyway, all you have to do is guess how the following said* they'd vote:

1. John Mortimer
2. Alan Bennet
3. Michael Tippet
4. Kingsley Amis
5. Harold Pinter
6. Malcom Bradbury
7. Antony Sher
8. A.J.Ayer
9. Dennis Potter
10. A.L.Rowse
11. Peter Hall
12. Auberon Waugh

Feel free to use google to find out more about any of them if you don't know much about them.

Bonus questions (will only count in case of ties)...

1. Which of the above noted that they probably wouldn't vote as they'd be out of the country at the time of the election.

2. Which of the above described his party of choice as "the patriotic party"?

3. Which of the above cited Labour's firm anti-aparthied stance as a reason for his vote?

*which may be different to how they actually voted. Pinter, for example, claimed that he was going to vote for the Socialist Alliance [an alliance of Trotyskist parties] in 2001. There was no Socialist Alliance candidate in the constituency that he lived in.