Talk Elections

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?

4 - What parties make up the current government?

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?


HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?



DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?



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?

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?

Oh dear. I know all of these.

Well, it's not gonna be a challenge for a Briton.

Should I point out that you're wrong about the number of elected Commie MPs? :)

1 David Cameron, Conservative
2 House of Commons, House of Lords
3 Ed Milliband, Labour
4 Conservative, Liberal Democrat
5 SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party), The SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party) and PC (Plaid Cymru) which are collectively the 3 nationalist parties.
6 Gordon Brown, Labour

7 Conservative and Unionist Party
8 First Lord of the Treasury
9 oh, hum... Pitt the... Younger?
10 Tony Blair, Labour
11 uh wha?
12 Ramsey MacDonald in, uh, 1924?
13 Uh oh I know this one... David Owen, um... Shirley... something, uh. Some..... Robert Mac..Innenian?... and. uh... no clue. They started the Social Democratic Party, a spit from Labour.
14 um. .. Churchill?

15 Oh, that dude with the statue... Dwight? Dewar? D... something. Duncan?
16 Alex Salmond
17 who cares (rhodri morgan?)
18 Chuckles. His name excapes me at the moment. Curly hair, glasses, S something. Sean? Seamus. Damn this. I love NI. I just cant think of his name. McGuinnes I think.

19 ?
20 ?
21 Liberals, Liberal and Social Democrats, Alliance
22 Ed Milliband, David Millibad, Ed Testicles Balls, Dianne Abbot, and that really crazy left-wing dude who said that he'd have gone back in time to kill Thatcher
23 uh, is it the Iron Lady thing? She did that while in Cabinet.
24 Haystack

25 uh. hum. I know they used to meet in a church
26 wow. uh. hum. ... hum... I'm thinking it has to be either Disraeli or Lloyd George, but I'm going with the latter.
27 oh jeeze. no idea. Ole one-eye is an idiot anyway.

Fixed :)

Answers:

1 David Cameron, Conservative
2 House of Commons, House of Lords
3 Ed Miliband, Labour
4 Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats
5 Any of: Greens, SNP, Social Democratic and Labour, Plaid Cymru, DUP, Alliance
6 Gordon Brown, Labour

7 Unionist Party
8 First Lord of the Treasury
9 Robert Walpole
10 Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, 1931
11 D:Ream - THings Can Only Get Better
12 1924, Ramnsey MacDonald
13 Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen, Bill Rodgers - formed the SDP after splitting with Labour
14 Harold Wilson

15 Donald Dewar
16 Alex Salmond
17 Carwyn Jones
18 Martin McGuinness

19 Signing of Good Friday
20 Willie Gallacher, Phil Piratin, Shapurji Saklatvala, Walton Newbold
21 Social and Liberal Democrats, SDP-Liberal Alliance, Liberals, Whig
22 Ed Miliband (Leader of the Opposition), David Miliband (MP for South Shields), Ed Balls (Shadow Chancellor), Andy Burnham (Shadow Education Secretary), Diane Abbott (Shadow Health Minister)
23 Abolish free milk in schools for children aged between seven and eleven, earning her the nickname "Milk Snatcher Thatcher"
24 The Woolsack

25 St Stephen's Chapel
26 David Lloyd-George
27 Barking, Margaret Hodge, Labour

Number 23 can be disputed given what we know from the 30 year rule.

Well it can't be disputed that she was - and is - well known for being the minister that implemented the decision.

^ This. I doubt you'd find many people who'd go "ah, but it's been found, with the release of government notes from the time..." if the topic was discussed

It's only a quiz, you know. No need to get outraged about everything.

Never say that to a Times Crossword enthusiast.

That is the purpose of that quiz. It includes much more knowledge than needed. You know, knowledge for knowledge. Like the quiz leagues in UK or the "Génies en Herbe" for adults in Quebec. Well, true than there is nothing of that kind in US (except Jeopardy, which isn't even hosted by an American) and than knowledge is seen as bad in the US.

That is a cultural difference.

An outsider might be interested in that sort of thing. Is that a problem?


Or, perhaps, you think you know more than you actually do.

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Anyhow, I'll give this a go.

1. David Cameron, Conservative
2. House of Commons, Senate
3. Ed Miliband, Labour
4. Conservative, Liberal Democrats
5. DUP, SDLP, Sinn Féin
6. Gordon Brown, Labour
7. Unionist
8. First Lord of the Treasury
9. Disraeli? Not quite sure.
10. Does MacDonald's National Government count? I'll go with that.
11. Don't know
12. Ramsay MacDonald in 1922 or thereabouts
13. Don't remember the names, but they founded the SDP
14. Churchill?
15-17. Don't recall
18. It's still Robinson, isn't it?
19. Don't know
20. Don't know
21. Whig, Liberal, SDP, SDP-Liberal Alliance, Social and Liberal Democrats
22. Abbott, Balls, Burnham, the Milibands
23. Don't know
24. The woolsack
25. Don't know
26. Lloyd George
27. Don't know

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?
- David Cameron, Conservative Party

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.
- House of Commons, House of Lords

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?
- Ed Miliband, Labour Party

4 - What parties make up the current government?
- Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.
- Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, Green Party of England and Wales

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?
- Gordon Brown, Labour Party

HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?
- Unionist Party

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]
- No idea.

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?
- Not sure. Gladstone? If you mean longest continuous Prime Minister, that should be Thatcher.

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?
- Baldwin in 1931, Conservatives / National government.

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?
- Ah, I forgot. Part of the refrain was, iirc: *We can do so much better!*

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?
- Ramsay McDonald. 1922(?)

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?
- Don't know.

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?
- Clement Attlee. Though I would guess he wasn't the only pipe-smoking PM in your history.


DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?
- Don't know

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?
- Don't know

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?
- Don't know

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?
- Don't know

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?
- Don't know.

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.
- No idea.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?
- Historically? First "Liberal Party", and than the "Social Democratic & Liberal Alliance".

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]
- Ed Miliband, David Milibands, Ed Balls. And one more man and one left-wing black woman, but I don't remember their names.

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?
- You're probably talking about that milk-snatching affair.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?
- Don't know.


IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?
- No idea.

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?
- Lloyd George

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?
- Nick Griffin ran in Barking, but I don't know to which Labour guy he lost to.

Well, it is for foreign consumption, too. Some of us (us being the "nerds" haunting this particular sub-forum) have an excessive and borderline excessive interest in foreign elections. Often, we know more about politics of a country than many residents of the said country. Look, I'm Canadian and I'm very interested in local by-election in UK.

Is that sane and normal? Probably not, I'll admit, but that shouldn't be depreciated. And I think I know the answer to the question 7, afleitch loves to talk about the past of the Glorious Scotland.

And Xahar means than the answer ISN'T Prime Minister! That office doesn't even legally exist. The office giving access to 10 Downing St isn't well-known and is mostly honorific, if I remember well (and is always given to the Prime Minister since centuries).

1. David Cameron, Conservative.

2. The House of Commons and the House of Lords.

3. Ed Milibrand, Labour.

4. Conservative and Liberal Conservative Democrat

5. Green (Caroline Lucas in Brighton Pavillon), Plaid Cymru, SNP, and four of the five Northern Ireland parties (DUP, SDLP, SF, Alliance). UUP, Respect and Independant Health Concern Party doesn't anymore.

6. Gordon Brown, Labour.

7. The Unionist Party.

8. The First Lord of the Treasury?

9. I don't know. Heath?

10. Labour, Attlee?

11. Something bad, I suppose.

12. Don't know. 1927, under Asquirth?

13. I don't know. I hope they kept their clothes.

14. Churchill! There is only one picture without his pipe and it was took by a Canadian, I think.

15. Donald Dewar? He died in 2001, I think.

16. Alex Salmon.

17. Thomas? (Good guess for a Welshman, anyways, they are all called Thomas or Jones).

18. Martin McGuinness, SF (Peter Robinson, DUP, Belfast East, is the First Minister).

19. September 11st, 2001?

20. Good question.

21. Liberal Party, Liberal Unionist (spin-off), National Liberal (another spin-off), SDP-Liberal Alliance, Social Democratic Party (merged with them), Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party (spin-off). I probably forgot some between the two wars.

22. Ed Milibrand, leader. David Milibrand, backbencher for the moment. Andy Burnham, Diane Abbott and Ed Balls.

23. Introducing Section 21?

24. The seat in front of the Commons. For a name, no idea.

25. The West Wing?

26. Bonar-Law? Wasn't Welsh is first language?

27. Barking (if he won, that would have been Barfing). No idea who won, probably the Labour incumbent.

1 - David Cameron, Conservative
2 - Commons, Lords

3 - Ed Miliband, Labour

4 - Conservative Liberal Democrats
5 - Sinn Fein, Alliance, SNP
6 - Gordon Brown, Labour

HISTORICAL

7 - no idea

8 - your hint throws me off

9 - Walpole?

10 - Tony Blair, Labour? lol
11 - no idea

12 - Ramsay MacDonald, 1920-something
13 - no idea
14 - no idea


DEVOLUTION

15 - Alex Salmond

16 - no idea
17 - rhodri morgan?

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister? Martin McGuiness

DIFFICULT

19 - no idea

20 - no idea

21 - SDP  - Liberal Alliance
22 - David, Ed, Balls, Abbott

23 - no idea

24 - no idea


IMPOSSIBLE

25 - no idea

26 - no idea

27 - Nick Griffin, Barking, Margaret Hodge

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?

David Cameron, Conservative Party.

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

House of Commons and House of Lords.

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?

Ed Miliband, Labour Party.

4 - What parties make up the current government?

Conservative Party and Liberal Democrats.

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.

Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, Social Democratic and Labour Party.

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?

Gordon Brown, Labour Party.


HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?

Unionist Party.

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]

Prime Minister?

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?

Robert Walpole.

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

Ramsey McDonald, National Government.

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?

"Things Can Only Get Better"?

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?

1924, Ramsey McDonald.

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?

Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers. They formed the Social Democratic Party.

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?

Harold Wilson.

DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?

Donald Dewar.

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?

Alex Salmond.

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?

His name escapes me.

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?

Martin McGuniness?

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?

Invasion of Iraq?

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.

Not sure.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?

Liberal Party, Alliance, Social Liberal Democrats.

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]

Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition, David Miliband, backbencher, Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor, Andy Burnham, Shadow Education Secretary, Diane Abbott, Shadow Health Minister.

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?

Taking milk away from schoolchildren as Education Secretary.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?

Speaker's Chair?



IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?

Not sure.

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?

David Lloyd George.

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?

Barking, Margaret Hodge.

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?
David Cameron. Conservative.

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.
House of Lords, House of Commons.

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?
Ed Milliband, Labour.

4 - What parties make up the current government?
Conservatives, Liberal Democrats.

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.
"Are have"? Is this a trick question?
Plaid Cymru, SNP, DUP, SDLP, SF, APNI. Anyone else?

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?
Gordon Brown, Labour

HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?
The Unionist Party. Which was basically the Conservative Party's Scottish branch.

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]
Whatever historical office that has been subsumed into the position of Prime Minister used to be Prime Minister did?

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?
Robert Walpole? Does that far back even count or was the title "Prime Minister" not in official use yet?

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?
Labour, Tony Blair, 1997? Or is this National Coalition Government, David Lloyd George, 1918, Liberals?

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?
Things can only get better[/]. Dreadful tune.

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?
Wartime coalition during WWI, Lloyd George or his predecessor (Asquith?)

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?
Roy Jenkins, Shirley something-or-other, David Owen, some other bloke. Walked out of Labour and founded the SDP.

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?
Macmillan? Probably several, actually.

DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?
Donald Dewar

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?
Alex Salmond

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?
Carwyn... Jones? Hughes? Summat like that.

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?
Martin McGuinness

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?
It would take Tony Blair to not notice that no events of any import are not "not a day for sound bites". (Hey, quadruple negation, bitches!)

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.
Philip Piratin, Mile End, 1945. Then there's the bloke who won a seat in Fife in 35 and 45, and some arguable stuff in the 20s. (Such as some Parsee businessman in Battersea, supported by Labour and the Commies and perhaps - hazy on details - a member of the latter, but for all practical purposes an Indian National Congress MP.)

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?
Liberals. SDP. The short-lived name that got shortened to LDs (Social and Liberal Democrats maybe?)

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]
Ed Milliband, Dave Milliband, Ed Balls, Diane Abbot, some random scouse.

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?
Being a right idiot.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?
No clue.

IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?
No clue.

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?
David Lloyd George? Though I think he was raised bilingual.

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?
Barking. Forget her name.

Reminds me of some of the meta-discussions I get in my quiz leagues (usually the boring bloke loudly bemoaning that there are too many questions on a subject he isn't interested in).

I feel that knowledge for knowledge's sake is a good thing.  Most questions in UK quiz leagues on foreign politics are of the level of 'who is the Prime Minister of Canada?'  That's nothing more than a name - what about all the other useful facts?  What's his party?  What does he stand for?  What should he be famous/notorious for?  Is he the spawn of the devil or the best thing since sliced bread?  But still, that's the level and anything more in-depth than that is impossibly hard for the average UK pub quiz audience.  That doesn't mean it's too hard for the Mastermind-contender, quizbowl or other general nerd audience - and if we don't fall into one of these categories what are we doing on this forum?

Oh, and BBC Mastermind isn't even hosted by an Englishman.

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?

David Cameron, Conservative

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

House of Commons
House of Lords

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?

Ed Miliband, Labour

4 - What parties make up the current government?

The Conservative Party (senior member), the Liberal Democrats (junior member)

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.

The Scottish National Party, the Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Fein, etc...

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?

Gordon Brown, Labour


HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?

The Unionist Party ? Thanks Hash. :P

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]

Wut ? If it's not the PM, then what could it be ? ???

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?

Don't know, certainly some oldie...

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

You mean in every election ? OMG... :P I'd first need to know when exaclty did all those elections take place...

Before 1945, I've no idea.

1945 : Labour under Attlee.
1950 : Labour under Attlee.
1951 : Torie under Churchill
1955 : Torie under McMillan ?
1960s : Let's not even try.
1970 (?) : Tory under Heath ?
1974 : Labour under Wilson
1979 : Tory under Thatcher
1983 : Tory under Thatcher
1987 : Tory under Thatcher
1992 : Tory under Major
1997 : Labour under Blair
2001 : Labour under Blair
2005 : Labour under Blair
2020 : Tory under Cameron

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?

No idea. Better late than never ? ;D

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?

1924, with Ramsay McDonald.

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?

Dunno.

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?

Churchill. ;D



DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?

Dunno.

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?

Dunno.

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?

Dunno.

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?

Dunno

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?

Dunno.

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.

No idea.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?

The Whighs back in the 1700s, the Liberals since the early XXth Century, they allied with the Social Democratic Party during the 1980 creating the Alliance, which then became a real party known as the LibDems.

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]

Besides Ed and David Miliband, don't know.

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?

Being batsh*t insane ? Nah, don't know.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?

Dunno.


Better stopping there.

Haha, yes. Labour joined the government in 1915 and even got its first cabinet minister then (Arthur Henderson).

Co-Operative! :D



It only came into official use with Campbell-Bannerman in 1905, I think.

GENERAL

1 - 6  - All correct

HISTORICAL

7 - 9 - All correct.

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

I guessed at Blair, 97. My second guess would have been Campbell-Bannerman in 06 or Salisbury in 00.

11 - 14 - All correct

DEVOLUTION

15 - 16 - All correct

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?
Couldn't remember! :(

18 - Correct

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?
20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.
At one point knew the answer to these, but didn't today

21 - 22 - All correct, but didn't know that Andy Burnham is now Education Shadow, which is mildly embarassing

23 - 24 - All correct

IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?
Didn't know at all.

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?
This is quite well known actually I think - definitely doesn't deserve to be in the impossible section at any rate.

27 - Correct.

21/27

No fair counting Walpole for longest-serving PM, IMO.

I'm embarrassed I didn't know that about David Lloyd-George (no wonder Al has a soft spot for him).  By the way, people criticize the American tendency to give people "two first names," a la Ron Paul.  David Lloyd-George has 3.

The Greens, of course.

A good troll answer for question 26 would be Harold Wilson. Because everyone knows that Tykes don't speak English.

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

That's the Speaker, not the Lord Speaker.

I've actually got an interesting story about the communist mp for fife ( won't name him because might ruin the quiz), he apparently saved my great uncle, when he was a boy from going to a youth prison because his family couldn't pay the fine. So my great grandmother always liked him for helping her.

I don't think this is the best example if you want to mock me. I've checked out, and almost everybody (Xahar comprised) made the same mistake. Most of them didn't even get the year of McDonald's cabinet right.

When they had the good PM. I said HH Asquirth, if I remember well. Well, that part of UK history is very blurry to me.

I wasn't mocking you; technically the question-setter got it wrong as well :)

(question ought to have been: 'when did Labour form its first government', not 'when did Labour first enter government').

The only ones I'm proud of knowing are Walpole and LLoyd George. I'm surprised by Baldwin in 1931. My money was on Blair 1997 or Campbell-Bannerman 1906.

Outside South Wales that was a bad election of evilness.

Some questions of my own now...

Easy

1. Which party won the 1959 General Election?

2. Who was the first Leader of the Labour Party?

3. Name the constituencies of the leaders of the three largest parties in the Commons.

4. Who is the current Father of the House?


Shouldn't be so hard

5. What was the name of the constituency represented by Harold Wilson from 1950 until 1983?

6. What do Stoke-on-Trent and Bournemouth have in common?

7. Who were the following (points for each, I suppose)... Anthony Barber, Dai Grenfell, Cyril Smith, Cecil Parkinson, Billy Wolfe and Tony Crosland.

8. What connects T. Dan Smith, Andy Cunningham and Reginald Maulding? Bonus points for knowing who Cunningham was, because most people don't.

9. Only one constituency has elected members of four separate political parties since 1945. Name it.

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.

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.

12. C.B. Fry was a frequent candidate for which major political party during the inter-war period?

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?

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.

15. Name the last Conservative MP for a Manchester constituency.

16. Who was Austin Donohue in Our Friends in the North based on? Actually this is pretty easy question if you've seen it.

17. Which Labour MP had a brief cameo in Edge of Darkness? Again, if you've seen it...

18. Who was Sir Herbert Manzoni?

19. Which future Prime Minister ordered troops to fire on striking Yorkshire miners?

20. Who was the MP for Meirionnydd when cult TV classic The Prisoner was filmed in the constituency in the late 1960s?

21. Who represented Hunslet when The Uses of Literacy was first published?

Very Important Question

22. Pronounce 'Gala' in the context of the Big Meeting.

Easy

1. Which party won the 1959 General Election?

Conservative Party.

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.

Doncaster North, Sheffield Hallam, Witney.

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?

They've never elected a Liberal MP?

7. Who were the following (points for each, I suppose)... Anthony Barber, Dai Grenfell, Cyril Smith, Cecil Parkinson, Billy Wolfe and Tony Crosland.

Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Heath Government, Not Sure, famous Liberal MP for Rochdale, prominent right-wing Tory during the Thatcher and Major years, Not Sure, Home Secretary during the Callaghan Government and the author of The Future of Socialism.

8. What connects T. Dan Smith, Andy Cunningham and Reginald Maulding? Bonus points for knowing who Cunningham was, because most people don't.

All corrupt.

9. Only one constituency has elected members of four separate political parties since 1945. Name it.

Ynys Môn?

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.

He was defeated by James Callaghan in one of the Cardiff seats.

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.

12. C.B. Fry was a frequent candidate for which major political party during the inter-war period?

Liberal Party.

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?

This is a guess....West Bromwich West.

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.

Errrr....Glasgow?

15. Name the last Conservative MP for a Manchester constituency.

Not sure.

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...

Tony Benn?

18. Who was Sir Herbert Manzoni?

Italian?

19. Which future Prime Minister ordered troops to fire on striking Yorkshire miners?

Winston Churchill.

20. Who was the MP for Meirionnydd when cult TV classic The Prisoner was filmed in the constituency in the late 1960s?

Not sure.

21. Who represented Hunslet when The Uses of Literacy was first published?

Not sure.

Very Important Question

22. Pronounce 'Gala' in the context of the Big Meeting.

Errr....

I make that 15 out of a possible... er... variable number. Alas 'all corrupt' is true, but more detail is needed.

I don't think I've been clear enough with question six though; it's something unique to those two places. Unless I've fycked up, which is possible.

Some questions of my own now...

Easy

1. Which party won the 1959 General Election?
--- Tories

2. Who was the first Leader of the Labour Party?
--- I know that one of the very first Labour MPs elected was named Keir Hardie. Let's try it.

3. Name the constituencies of the leaders of the three largest parties in the Commons.
--- Nick Clegg is either City of Durham or City of Cambridge, I think. Don't know for Miliband and Cameron.

4. Who is the current Father of the House?
--- Is that the oldest MP? That was Ian Paisley for some time I think, but he is gone. Or is it the longest serving MP? What ever, I'll try Dennis Skinner, since he is old and long-serving.

5-22. No idea. Would only be blind guessing.

Can I get a point for effort? I'm not British, I don't know so much UK.
1. Conservative?

2. MacDonald?

3. Witney, Sheffield Hallam and Basingstoke? (big doubt on the last one).

4. An old guy whose name is very unknown to me.

5. I know, because of Al in the by-election thread. Huyton. He is the only MP who represented it, as he ran in it when it was created and was abolished in the redistricting just before he retired,

6. Having decided to opt for an elected mayor then abolishing it?

7. Cyril Smith was a Liberal politician in the 70's and 80's. He was obese and died recently (last year?). He had a scandal run by a tabloid involving young guys and a paddle, if I remember well.
Dai Grenfell is Welsh I suppose, with such a first name. Labour, logically, then.
Doesn't Crosland had an important office in some Labour Cabinet?

8. They were born in Northern Ireland, but did their political career in England?

9. Somewhere in Scotland? I don't know. Or even Wales?

10. Why not Manchester?

11. I obviously don't know any television playwright.

12. Labour? I assume than if he was Liberal or Conservative, they would have found him a safe constituency.

13. Sutton Coldfield? It is the right area, at least.

14. Cathedral Cities are cities which don't have the city status but have a Cathedral. I remember only Rochester, I'll try that.

15 to 18.

19. Churchill? I remember he was pretty bad outside wartime.

20-21. I don't know.

22. Knowing Al, it must be about Wales (dubious, it would have a Welsh name) or miners. I'll try miners, so, gay-lay, with a very thick accent?

Nope, it's Durham.  I know the answer, but won't give a spoiler.

For q9, are you excluding Northern Ireland?  East Belfast seems to qualify, and West Belfast has arguably had five.

Like adverts on television, Northern Ireland is not included.

Yeah, should have specified Great Britain.

Yeah, that seems fair enough.

I make it about five or so, out of a possible... some other figure.

Good answer for question six, even though it's wrong, btw.

Oh dear, time to get humiliated.

Easy

1. Tories?

2. Arthur Henderson?

3. Witney, Sheffield Hallam and... Doncaster something?

4. I have no idea

Shouldn't be so hard

5. no idea

6. they're cities in England, obviously...

7. I know nota

8. I know nota

9. I don't know, but I wish I did

Maybe slightly trickier. To do with candidates.

10. I would need to know who this person was first of all

11. ?

12. Labour?

13. ?

Fairly hard, I guess.

14. Westminster?

15. probably in 1983 or something I'd guess, but no clue who or where

16. ...

17. ...

18. ...

19. It seems like a stupid thing Thatcher would do, but it can't be her

20. ?

21. ?

Very Important Question

22. Gah-lah

Easy

1. MacMillan's Tories

2. Keir Hardie

3. Witney, Doncaster North, Sheffield Hallam

4. Argh, I can picture him, but his name completely escapes me.


Shouldn't be so hard

5. Huyton

6. ...no idea

7. Anthony Barber - chancellor, Dai Grenfell - ?, Cyril Smith - a fat Liberal MP, Cecil Parkinson - ?, Billy Wolfe - ? and Tony Crosland - foreign secretary in (i think) Wilson's government, i think (also, maybe, 'a leader we never had' - i remember david miliband saying something about him during the Newsnight debate).

8. Some scandal

9. Either Ynys Mon or some random constituency in the Highlands probably, possibly that one above Charles Kennedy's constituency. Wyre Forest, BriPav? This is a hard one.

Maybe slightly trickier. To do with candidates.

10. don't know

11. don't know

12. The Liberals

13. don't know

Fairly hard, I guess.

14. Greenock

15. no idea...

16. T Dan Smith

17. Haven't seen it

18. I've heard the name somewhere, no idea who he is though

19. Churchill, I think. I've heard a story or two from older relatives of how he treated some of the Liverpool strikers, so I can only assume.

20. don't know

21. don't know

Very Important Question

22. gay-lar?

1. Which party won the 1959 General Election?
Tories

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.
Sheffield Hallam for Clegg, one of the more rural South Yorkshire seats for Ed Milliband, one of those posh commuter belt area seats named for a random village for David Cameron.

4. Who is the current Father of the House?
?

Shouldn't be so hard

5. What was the name of the constituency represented by Harold Wilson from 1950 until 1983?
Knowsley, under a different name and a different set of boundaries.

6. What do Stoke-on-Trent and Bournemouth have in common?
Both are cities in England. Of roughly comparable size, and born of mergers of several towns really (Stoke more so than Bournemouth). Otherwise, nothing.

7. Who were the following (points for each, I suppose)... Anthony Barber, Dai Grenfell, Cyril Smith, Cecil Parkinson, Billy Wolfe and Tony Crosland.
I think I've heard some of the other names. Tony Crosland was a Labour bigwig in the 60s and 70s, holding numerous ministries and I think running for leader at least once.

8. What connects T. Dan Smith, Andy Cunningham and Reginald Maulding? Bonus points for knowing who Cunningham was, because most people don't.
T Dan Smith was of course Newcastle's legendary boss. Apart from that, no idea. Who is Andy Cunningham? And who is Reginald Maulding?

9. Only one constituency has elected members of four separate political parties since 1945. Name it.
Anglesey / Ynys Mon.

The next section is ridiculous.

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.
This better be Durham. :P

15. Name the last Conservative MP for a Manchester constituency.
Wasn't that Winston Churchill's grandson of same name?

16. Who was Austin Donohue in Our Friends in the North based on? Actually this is pretty easy question if you've seen it.
But I have not.

17. Which Labour MP had a brief cameo in Edge of Darkness? Again, if you've seen it...
?

18. Who was Sir Herbert Manzoni?
Birmingham's chief city planner (forget the job description) for decades in the postwar area. I've dutifully read what you sent me.

19. Which future Prime Minister ordered troops to fire on striking Yorkshire miners?
Winston Churchill

20. Who was the MP for Meirionnydd when cult TV classic The Prisoner was filmed in the constituency in the late 1960s?
? (To clarify: I think that's too early for the answer to be Dafydd Elis Thomas.)

21. Who represented Hunslet when The Uses of Literacy was first published?
What is "Hunslet"? What are the uses of literacy? I can't think of any.

Very Important Question

22. Pronounce 'Gala' in the context of the Big Meeting.
Ok, done. May be totally wrong, of course. We will never know, unless you have this room bugged.
I assume you are referring to the Durham Miners' Gala.

Hunslet is a working class district in south Leeds, The Uses of Literacy is an extremely influential book on working class culture by Richard Hoggart (who grew up in Hunslet). It was published in 1957.

There is a reason I didn't put any asterisks or italics on the phrase "the uses of literacy". :P

Yeah, I spotted that. Just felt like giving a clue :)

I was originally going to ask a question about the towns in Lloyd George's constituency after 1918, but thought better of it.

bangor, Caernarffon, Pwllheli, uh... a couple more.

Criccieth, Pwllheli, Nefyn, Caernarfon, Bangor, Llanfairfechan, Penmaenmawr, Conwy (including Deganwy and Llandudno Junction) and Llandudno.

It's that bit at the end that explains why it went Tory in 1945.

republicanism gets two out of a possible four.

Hashemite gets minus twenty two million for getting question twenty two catastrophically wrong. But, actually, gets two and a half out of a possible something.

Refudiate gets nine out of a possible something or other.

Lewis gets six and a half out of a possible smaller number. I'm going to assume he said twenty two right.

And I get called a bastard for setting horrible questions.

Half points have been given sometimes when an answer is kind of close-ish, you know. It's also possible that proper points have been added wrong. I did basically fail maths at school, you see, and that's my excuse.

Anyway, should I post the answers in white type here or PM them to people who have answered already?

I'm not even going to try, but is the constituency that has elected members of four different parties Fermanagh and South Tyrone?

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? David Cameron What party are they from? Conservatives

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament. House of Lords, House of Commons

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition Ed Miliband and what party is he from? Labour

4 - What parties make up the current government? Conservatives, Liberal Democrats

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties. Greens, Scottish National Party, United Kingdom Independence Party?

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and from what party was he from? Labour

HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s? Uh, the Conservatives?

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think] Prime Minister Oh, the hint. ...The Lord of the Treasury?

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister? Uh...William Gladstone?

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent? Labour, Tony Blair (1997)

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election? ...No idea.

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister? Ramsay McDonald...no idea about the year. 1924?

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' I don't know and what did they do together? Same.

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe? No idea.

DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland? I don't know.

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority? No idea.

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales? No idea.

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister? I don't know.

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"? Uh...September 11 2001?

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected. Can't.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms? SDP-Liberal Alliance

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices] Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Ed Balls, Diane Abbott and I don't know the fifth.

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party? I have no idea.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker? No idea.

IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally? Don't know.

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language? David Lloyd George

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election? No idea.

Impressive; 24 out of a possible something or other.

I'm not familiar with those adverts, though.

GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?

David Cameron, Conservatives

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

Houses of Common and Lords

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?

Ed Miliband, Labour

4 - What parties make up the current government?

Tories and LibDems

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.

SNP, Plaid Cymru, Sinn Fein?

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?

Gordon Brown, Labour

HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?

Tories?

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]

First Lord of the Exchequer?

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?

Hmmn. Thatcher?

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

Labour, Tony Blair.

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?

192...3?

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?



DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?

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.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?

Liberals, SDP.

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?

Milk in schools.

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?



IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?

Throne room?

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?

Disraeli?

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?

B...b...Boston?

Sending out answers now. Except that I forgot to add who Billy Wolfe was. So I'll put it here instead, he was the leader of the SNP in the 1970s and is generally credited with turning the party into a proper political party, focused on elections. Never actually an MP despite leading the SNP into their best General Election to date (October 1974) as he always ran against Tam Dalyell rather than seek somewhere easier.

Bump.

Here are some questions of my own....

PRESENT DAY:

1. In percentage terms, in which constituency did Labour achieve their biggest majority in the 2010 General Election?

2. Name the current leader of the Green Party and the parliamentary constituency she represents.

3. A former Deputy Prime Minister became a peer in 2010. Name him, his party and the government that he served in.

4. Which current Labour MP (in)famously supported George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign? A bonus point if you can name his/her constituency.

5. The current leader of the UK Independence Party made headlines when he contested a seat in the 2010 General Election. What happened to him on election day? Also, name the MP who he challenged and his position in the House of Commons. Bonus point if you can name the constituency.

HISTORICAL:

6. Which Labour Party leader made a conference speech during which he said "We will fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love!"? Bonus point for the year.

7. What do Stuart Randall and Peter Griffiths have in common? (Two points for this.)

8. Name the Prime Minister who many suspect was gay.

9. Who are/were the following people?: Philip Snowden, James Prior, Barbara Castle, Desmond Donnelly, Donald Dewar.

10. Which Prime Minister is often misquoted as saying "You've never had it so good"?

11. Which former Home Secretary did Peter Hitchens once accuse of being a "cultural revolutionary"?

12. What was northworthy about Central Dunbartonshire in both of the 1974 General Elections?

1) David Cameron MP (Conservative)
2) House of Commons and House of Lords
3) Ed Milliband MP (Labour)
4) Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
5) Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party, Green Party
6) Gordon Brown MP (Labour)
7) Pass
8) First Lord of the Treasury
9) Pass
10) Liberals, Lloyd George
11) Things can only get better by D:Ream
12) 1929, Ramsay McDonald
13) David Owen, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins (found the SDP)
14) Harold Wilson
15) Donald Dewar MSP
16) Alex Salmond MSP
17) Carwyn Jones AM
18) Martin McGuinness MLA
19) The Good Friday Agreement
20) Pass
21) Liberal Party, Liberal/SDP Alliance, Social and Liberal Democrats
22) Pass
23) Withdrawing free school milk
24) The Woolsack
25) Pass
26) Pass
27) Barking, Margaret Hodge MP

You've reminded me, I had these questions asked to me a few weeks back in the final of a local quiz league competition.  The subject was 'The British General Election of 2010'.

I got 18.

1. Caroline Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion for which party in the 2010 General Election?
2. How many Sinn Fein MPs were elected in the 2010 General Election, although they have yet to take their seats?
3. Who did Gordon Brown refer to as a 'sort of bigoted woman' when caught unawares on air during the 2010 Election campaign?
4. In which city was the second televised debate between the Party leaders in April 2010?
5. Who was the only Independent candidate elected in 2010, winning Down North by more than 14,000 votes?
6. How many MPs formed the new Parliament?
7. In which constituency was Speaker John Bercow elected unopposed by any of the major Parties, as tradition dictates?
8. What was the title of the Conservative Party's 2010 election Manifesto?
9. Which Party Leader escaped serious injury in a 'plane crash on the day of the Election?
10. To within +/-15[%] what was the UK turnout in the 2010 General Election?
11. Which Labour Cabinet Minister held onto his Morley and Outwood Constituency with a much reduced majority?
12. Why was the election in the Thirsk and Malton Constituency postponed until May 27th?
13. Who was the outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury who left a note for his successor saying "I am afraid there is no money.  Kind regards and good luck"?
14. Which Major Party's Election Manifesto was entitled "Change that works for you (Building a Fairer Britain)"?
15. How many seats did Labour lose in the 2010 Election?
16. Which multi-millionaire Tory candidate took the Richmond Park seat from the Liberal Democrats?
17. Nick Clegg, Chris Huhne, Danny Alexander, David Laws and which other Liberal Democrat were in the first Coalition Government?
18. Which North East Constituency won the race to make the first declaration in the 2010 General Election?
19. Which 80 year old Labour Conservative MP became the 'Father' of the new House?
20. Which seat did former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith lose in the election?

Answers:

1. Green Party
2. Five
3. Gillian Duffy
4. Bristol
5. Lady Sylvia Hermon
6. 650
7. Buckingham
8. An Invitation to Join the Government of Britain
9. Nigel Farage
10. 65%
11. Ed Balls
12. The UKIP candidate died
13. Liam Byrne
14. Liberal Democrats
15. 94
16. Zac Goldsmith
17. Vince Cable
18. Houghton and Sunderland South
19. Sir Peter Tapsell
20. Redditch

PRESENT DAY:
1. In percentage terms, in which constituency did Labour achieve their biggest majority in the 2010 General Election?
Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath?
2. Name the current leader of the Green Party and the parliamentary constituency she represents.
Caroline Lucas, Brighton Pavilion
3. A former Deputy Prime Minister became a peer in 2010. Name him, his party and the government that he served in.
John Prescott, Labour, Blair Ministry
4. Which current Labour MP (in)famously supported George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign? A bonus point if you can name his/her constituency.
?
5. The current leader of the UK Independence Party made headlines when he contested a seat in the 2010 General Election. What happened to him on election day? Also, name the MP who he challenged and his position in the House of Commons. Bonus point if you can name the constituency.
Nigel Farage challenged John Bercow, Speaker and MP for Buckingham. He was in a plane crash on election day

HISTORICAL:
6. Which Labour Party leader made a conference speech during which he said "We will fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love!"? Bonus point for the year.
Kinnock? 1989
7. What do Stuart Randall and Peter Griffiths have in common? (Two points for this.)
?
8. Name the Prime Minister who many suspect was gay.
Ted Heath?
9. Who are/were the following people?: Philip Snowden, James Prior, Barbara Castle, Desmond Donnelly, Donald Dewar.
Jim Prior was a wet minister in the Thatcher ministry - Employment then Northern Ireland I think
Barbara Castle was a Labour Cabinet minister in the 60/70s. She was the transport minister who introduced the breathalyzer.
Donald Dewar was the Labour Secretary of State for Scotland under Blair and the first First Minister for Scotland.
10. Which Prime Minister is often misquoted as saying "You've never had it so good"?
Harold Macmillan
11. Which former Home Secretary did Peter Hitchens once accuse of being a "cultural revolutionary"?
David Blunkett?
12. What was northworthy about Central Dunbartonshire in both of the 1974 General Elections?
Didn't know, so looked it up - surprised that has happened so recently

1. Caroline Lucas won the seat of Brighton Pavilion for which party in the 2010 General Election?
Green Party
2. How many Sinn Fein MPs were elected in the 2010 General Election, although they have yet to take their seats?
5
3. Who did Gordon Brown refer to as a 'sort of bigoted woman' when caught unawares on air during the 2010 Election campaign?

4. In which city was the second televised debate between the Party leaders in April 2010?
Edinburgh?
5. Who was the only Independent candidate elected in 2010, winning Down North by more than 14,000 votes?
Sylvia Hermon
6. How many MPs formed the new Parliament?
650
7. In which constituency was Speaker John Bercow elected unopposed by any of the major Parties, as tradition dictates?
Buckingham
8. What was the title of the Conservative Party's 2010 election Manifesto?
Change you believe in
9. Which Party Leader escaped serious injury in a 'plane crash on the day of the Election?
Nigel Farage
10. To within +/-15[%] what was the UK turnout in the 2010 General Election?
59%
11. Which Labour Cabinet Minister held onto his Morley and Outwood Constituency with a much reduced majority?
Ed Balls
12. Why was the election in the Thirsk and Malton Constituency postponed until May 27th?
Death of a candidate
13. Who was the outgoing Labour Chief Secretary to the Treasury who left a note for his successor saying "I am afraid there is no money.  Kind regards and good luck"?
14. Which Major Party's Election Manifesto was entitled "Change that works for you (Building a Fairer Britain)"?
Lib Dems
15. How many seats did Labour lose in the 2010 Election?
100
16. Which multi-millionaire Tory candidate took the Richmond Park seat from the Liberal Democrats?
Zac Goldsmith
17. Nick Clegg, Chris Huhne, Danny Alexander, David Laws and which other Liberal Democrat were in the first Coalition Government?
Vince Cable
18. Which North East Constituency won the race to make the first declaration in the 2010 General Election?
Sunderland South and Houghton
19. Which 80 year old Labour Conservative MP became the 'Father' of the new House?
Sir Peter Tapsell
20. Which seat did former Labour Home Secretary Jacqui Smith lose in the election?
I want to say Norwich North, but that was Charles Clarke. Urgh, Walsall South?

9/14, I think.