JFK's History Quiz

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

8.  I presume you are referring to Edward VII of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, altho George V did spend seven years on the throne before changing the name to Windsor in 1917.

[JohnFKennedy]

8.  I presume you are referring to Edward VII of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, altho George V did spend seven years on the throne before changing the name to Windsor in 1917.

Indeed I am.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Dead Sheep

[JohnFKennedy]

Dead Sheep

Eh?

Take a look through the questions Al, there are a few I am sure you could answer, e.g. the one on the first labour mp.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

11. Who was the first ever elected Labour MP?

Either Keir Hardie (1892 ILP/1900 LRC) or Thomas Burt (Liberal-Labour). I think you mean Hardie.

Re: "Dead Sheep"... Denis Healy once said that debating with Howe in the Commons was like being "Savaged by a Dead Sheep"

[Jens]

9. I suppose the answer is "Testudo"
Not sure about this one, but it is latin for tortoise

[JohnFKennedy]

11. Who was the first ever elected Labour MP?

Either Keir Hardie (1892 ILP/1900 LRC) or Thomas Burt (Liberal-Labour). I think you mean Hardie.

Re: "Dead Sheep"... Denis Healy once said that debating with Howe in the Commons was like being "Savaged by a Dead Sheep"

Ah yes, heehee, of course I forgot that quote, heehee.

Those are both correct.

Also Jens, yes, Testudo is the answer.

[JohnFKennedy]

20. Which Conservative earned himself the nickname Tarzan from the Private Eye after he took the mace from its stand in the House of Commons and wielded it around his head. He was banned from the houses of parliament for a month for it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

20. Which Conservative earned himself the nickname Tarzan from the Private Eye after he took the mace from its stand in the House of Commons and wielded it around his head. He was banned from the houses of parliament for a month for it.

Mr Pit Community Killer

[JohnFKennedy]

20. Which Conservative earned himself the nickname Tarzan from the Private Eye after he took the mace from its stand in the House of Commons and wielded it around his head. He was banned from the houses of parliament for a month for it.

Mr Pit Community Killer

More commonly known as......?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

20. Which Conservative earned himself the nickname Tarzan from the Private Eye after he took the mace from its stand in the House of Commons and wielded it around his head. He was banned from the houses of parliament for a month for it.

Mr Pit Community Killer

More commonly known as......?

Michael Heseltine

[JohnFKennedy]

20. Which Conservative earned himself the nickname Tarzan from the Private Eye after he took the mace from its stand in the House of Commons and wielded it around his head. He was banned from the houses of parliament for a month for it.

Mr Pit Community Killer

More commonly known as......?

Michael Heseltine

Heehee, yes.

[J. J.]

Still no answer to my Cecil querry?

[jimrtex]

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1920-ish, Asquith?

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Gutenburg

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Charles Hapsburg

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Keynes

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Benjamin Disraeli

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You still have to count George V, even if you don't count his sons and granddaughter.

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William, Harold, and somebody from Denmark.

[J. J.]

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1920-ish, Asquith?

It wouldn't be Asquith.  He was PM after Campbell-Bannerman, who was a Lib.  The Libs were in and out of power from the late 1860's, under Gladstone and Rosebury, and were never back in power after 1921.  It's prior to the Disraeli government.

[JohnFKennedy]

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1920-ish, Asquith?

It wouldn't be Asquith.  He was PM after Campbell-Bannerman, who was a Lib.  The Libs were in and out of power from the late 1860's, under Gladstone and Rosebury, and were never back in power after 1921.  It's prior to the Disraeli government.

Not quite fellows.

The answer was actually Campbell-Bannerman who came to power at the end of 1905 after a twenty year slump following the 1886 election, during that time only three out of twenty years were under Liberal Control - 1892-1895 under Gladstone (92-94) and Rosebery (94-95).

[J. J.]

This was the question.

2. In what year did the Liberal Party (UK) return to power after a stint of twenty years where they only governed for three years and who was the leader at the time?

The answer of Campbell-Bannerman doesn't fit the question.

First, it was 19 years between between 1886 and 1905.

Second your "only governed for three years" makes it sound as if when they returned to power, they only held it for three years.  The problem isn't the answer but the question.

And you still have not answered my Cecil question.  :-)

[JohnFKennedy]

This was the question.

2. In what year did the Liberal Party (UK) return to power after a stint of twenty years where they only governed for three years and who was the leader at the time?

The answer of Campbell-Bannerman doesn't fit the question.

First, it was 19 years between between 1886 and 1905.

Second your "only governed for three years" makes it sound as if when they returned to power, they only held it for three years.  The problem isn't the answer but the question.

And you still have not answered my Cecil question.  :-)

Twenty years really, Campbell-Bannerman came in at the very end of December 1905 IIRC.

I apologise if the question wasn't clear enough, the three years was during the stint of twenty.

[JohnFKennedy]

21. Who is the only British PM to ever be asssassinated? He was shot dead* by a bankrupt who blamed the government for his misfortunes, actually IN the palace of Westminster.

(Technically he didn't "die" in the palace of Westminster as no one ever does, if you do you officially died in St Thomas' Hospital just across the bridge)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

21. Who is the only British PM to ever be asssassinated? He was shot dead* by a bankrupt who blamed the government for his misfortunes, actually IN the palace of Westminster.

(Technically he didn't "die" in the palace of Westminster as no one ever does, if you do you officially died in St Thomas' Hospital just across the bridge)

Spencer Percivel (sp?)
A desendent of the guy that shot him is a Tory M.P

[J. J.]

And you still can't answer my Cecil question!

[JohnFKennedy]

21. Who is the only British PM to ever be asssassinated? He was shot dead* by a bankrupt who blamed the government for his misfortunes, actually IN the palace of Westminster.

(Technically he didn't "die" in the palace of Westminster as no one ever does, if you do you officially died in St Thomas' Hospital just across the bridge)

Spencer Percivel (sp?)
A desendent of the guy that shot him is a Tory M.P

Correct.

Nope, I am not sure on the Cecil question J.J. I apologise profusely for my ignorance!

[J. J.]

Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, now the 7th Marquess of Salisbury, was summoned to the House of Lords as the Baron Cecil of Essendon, his father's lowest peerage title, while the 6th Marquess was still alive, and had his seat.  This rarely used processed is called a "writ of acceleration."

This was done by John Major so that Cecil could become the leader of the Lords.

[J. J.]

You Brit's didn't remember that?  I'm amazed.

Two more Cecil questions:

1.  What was the "Cecil scene," and what was it significance to the House of Commons?

2.  This is easy, name one of the two groups the 3rd Marquess compared the Irish to regarding self rule?  ;-)

[Jake]

1) Which Chancellors preceeded and followed Hitler?

2) Who were the Presidents before and after Hitler?

3) Which man preceeded the infamous Reinhard Heydrich as Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia and served as Foreign Minister?