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QUIZ 47 – Politics

1 Which longest-serving prime minister of Australia founded the Liberal Party?

2 Why didn’t the Queen open the 1959 and 1963 sessions of Parliament?

3 Which Labour politician entered Parliament in 1945 as MP for Ormskirk?

4 After losing his seat in 1918, which future prime minister returned to the Commons as MP for Aberavon in 1922?

5 Labour Party leader Dom Mintoff was a two-time Prime Minister of which country?

6 Until Margaret Thatcher, who was the 20th century’s longest continuously serving prime minister?

7 In 1945, which MP for Jarrow was appointed the first female Minister for Education?

8 Located in rue de Varenne in Paris, what is the official residence of France’s prime minister?

9 Which Tory foreign secretary was MP for Witney from 1983 until 1997?

10 Winner of the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize, who was Britain’s first Labour cabinet minister?

11 Jessica Gunning played which future MP for Swansea East in the 2014 film Pride?

12 In 1916, who was reelected US president on the slogan: “He kept us out of the war”?

13 Which city is home to Chile’s bicameral parliament, the National Congress?

14 Assassinated in 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was which country’s founding leader?

15 The holder of which political office resides at 24 Sussex Drive?

16 Which president was described by Gore Vidal as “a triumph of the embalmer’s art”?

17 Which prime minister wrote in The Times under the pseudonym Runnymede?

18 Who did US President Franklin Roosevelt tell: “We need muscles like yours to beat Germany”?

19 Which 1976 110m hurdles Olympic champion became France’s Minister of Youth and Sport in 1995?

20 Name the pictured Labour Chancellor –


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