U.K Politics Quiz

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Some easy questions and some hard ones:

1. Which seat does Tony Blair represent?
2. Which seat does Michael Howard represent?
3. Which seat does Charles Kennedy represent (post-Scottish re-districting)?
4. Who were the first working class M.P's?
5. What seats did they represent?
6. Who is the only Mormon in the House of Commons?
7. How many seats did Winston Churchill (senior) run for?
8. Name them
9. Which seat did Winston Churchil (junior) represent until 1997?
10. Which seat did David Lloyd George represent?

[Platypus]

No idea on any of the, Pot shot at 7: 3.

[Peter]

Highlight to read (lets other people do it too)

1. Which seat does Tony Blair represent?

Sedgefield

2. Which seat does Michael Howard represent?

Folkestone and Hythe

3. Which seat does Charles Kennedy represent (post-Scottish re-districting)?

Guess: Ross, Skye and Locaber

6. Who is the only Mormon in the House of Commons?

Labour MP IIRC; Can't remember the name.

7. How many seats did Winston Churchill (senior) run for?

Reasonably sure its three
 
10. Which seat did David Lloyd George represent?

Cardiff Something IIRC

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1. Correct
2. Correct
3. Correct
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. Got the party right. Half a mark.
7. Wrong (way, way more than that...)
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. Wrong (wrong part of Wales. It was further north)

[minionofmidas]

1. Which seat does Tony Blair represent? Sedgefield
2. Which seat does Michael Howard represent? Folkestoney & Hythe
3. Which seat does Charles Kennedy represent (post-Scottish re-districting)? er...pre-redistricting it was Ross, Skye and Inverness West IIRC
4. Who were the first working class M.P's? There were some in the Short Parliament. Probably others before. Don't know names.
5. What seats did they represent? Those in the Short Parliament that I'm thinking of: High Wycombe
6. Who is the only Mormon in the House of Commons? ?
7. How many seats did Winston Churchill (senior) run for? 10?
8. Name them. Gimme some of those painkillers first.
9. Which seat did Winston Churchil (junior) represent until 1997? I have no idea.
10. Which seat did David Lloyd George represent? I think that was Caernarvon Boroughs.
And now I'll go read Pete's answers.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

1. Correct
2. Correct
3. I'll give you half a mark
4. Not *actually* the answer I was looking for (as it's pre-democracy) but I'll give you half a mark for being clever
5. See .4
6. N/A
7. Too many
8. No. They're prescription only
9. N/A
10. Correct

[Platypus]

The first working-class government in the world was in Australia, 1904, IIRC. Yay?

[bullmoose88]

Wow...I'm woefully ignorant.


I'm not going to hide my answer(s) since they're probably wrong
1.) Sedgefield

heh...too bad you didn't ask about Hague...I knew that one...Richmond!

We Americans need to be educated about UK politics.

[Peter]

Those are both correct Bullmoose.