I asked the following questions via Twitter yesterday – they’re all taken from the now-deceased Punch magazine’s Election 1992 political board game, Landslide. Yes, I have kept it for 21 years in the hope that it would come in useful for a blog-post on a quiet holiday week-end: I’m that far-sighted.
Easter Quiz (1): Who is the only C.20th British PM to have also held – concurrently – the post of Foreign Secretary?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (2): Which British prime ministers are said to have given rise to the phrase "Bob's your uncle"?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (3): Which future Labour leader was the victorious Labour candidate when Dick Taverne finally lost his seat in Lincoln?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (4): Which TV playwright was East Herts Labour candidate in the 1964 general election?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (4): Scottish Labour MP Jenny Lee was married to which Labour cabinet minister?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (5): Which former Labour cabinet minister attended the same school as John Lennon?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (6): When was payment for MPs first introduced?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (7): Which was the first country to give women the vote?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (8): How many Prime Ministers served during the reign of Queen Victoria?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (8): Which TV programme was presented by the sister of former Conservative party chairman Jeremy Hanley?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (9): Who was the first woman prime minister and which country did she run?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
Easter Quiz (10): "There but for the grace of God, goes God." Who said this, and of whom?
— Stephen Tall (@stephentall) April 18, 2014
The second set of questions appear tomorrow, Easter Sunday…
* Stephen was Editor (and Co-Editor) of Liberal Democrat Voice from 2007 to 2015, and writes at The Collected Stephen Tall.
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2 Comments
I guessed Dennis Potter and I was right! Luck I guess although I knew he was left wing. It is worth finding the video clips of “Pennies in Heaven” where often serious scenes were interrupted by lip synced 1930s song and dance routines which was oddly very entertaining;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31Y-TQe0Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyM1ZRZOncc
The other questions were very hard and all I can say is that Tim Farron did his leadership aspirations no harm for being such a clever clogs…
Will ‘Jack’s your dad’ or ‘Tony’s your dad’ be first to replace ‘Bob’s your uncle’? I heard something recently about the phrase being used to refer to political patronage in the nineteenth century.
I thought I had heard of ‘there but for the grace of god, goes god’ applied to several people. Was Churchill really the first to coin it?