Quizzes

A parliamentary theme this time. A few tricky ones I think!

Q. Why did Tory MP Nadine Dorries appear on TV for several weeks in in November 2012?
Q. Which parliamentary title is currently held by Sir Peter Tapsell but has previously been held by (among many others) Tam Dalyell, Edward Heath, James Callaghan and Winston Churchill?
Q. Which current Conservative cabinet minister has the nickname "two brains"?
Q. How many constituencies elect MPs to the House of Commons?
Q. Which long serving Labour MP is known as "the Beast of Bolsover"?
Q. Complete the sequence: Betty Boothroyd (1992-2000), Michael Martin (2000-2009), xxxx xxxxxx (2009-current)
Q. Sir Peter Viggers was a fairly obscure Tory MP until the Expenses Scandal broke in 2009. What avian residence costing £1645 was he (in)famous for claiming on his MP's expenses?
Q. Which current MP has won 2 acting Oscars? Bonus points for the names of the films!
Q. Which Lib Dem MP resigned his seat in February 2013 after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice?
Q. And finally.....John Profumo, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn and David Steel may seem an unlikely grouping, but which juvenile parliamentary title have they all held?

You may have noticed there were the Olympic Games in the summer of 2012. Here are a few questions to test whether it’s a forgotten memory!

Q. The colours of the Olympic rings are blue, yellow, green, red and what other colour?
Q. What was the name of the company that failed to recruit enough security staff and so the army had to be called in?
Q. Which “Great Briton” did Kenneth Branagh play at the Opening Ceremony?
Q. What was Anish Kapoor’s main contribution to the Olympic Park
Q. What was the O2 arena renamed for the Games?
Q. Which sports took place at the Copper Box?
Q. Jessica Ennis won the heptathlon gold medal but which other UK women have won Olympic gold in this event (and its predecessor the pentathlon)?
Q. Which BBC presenter is credited with suggesting the “Mobot” celebration to Mo Farah?
Q. Which English County would have finished 12^th in the medals table had it been an independent country?
Q. Seb Coe famously won gold medals at successive Olympics in 1980 and 1984. However what was the event in which he “only” won 2 silvers but for which he was the world record holder for 17 years and is still the British record holder?

A numerical theme this time! Either the question or the answer (or both) has a number in it.

Q. “I am not a number!” What was his number?
Q. Which Chicago song might be called “3.35 am or 3.34 am”?
Q. What is the British name for the card game which originated in France as “vingt-et-un”?
Q. In order of cinema release, what was the name of the second Star Wars film?
Q. What was the name of Led Zeppelin’s third album?
Q. What is the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury?
Q. In which film did Betty Lou Gerson play (sort of) the villainess in the 1961 original and Glenn Close in the 1996 remake?
Q. What number connects an ice cream and some red balloons?
Q. What connects the IV, XIV and XXX Olympiads?
Q. If you subtract the number of Lawrence’s Pillars of Wisdom from the number of John Buchan’s Steps and then divide by the number between 18 and 13 on a dart board, what is the answer?

A “metallic” theme this time (hopefully obvious when you read the questions)!

Q. How many gold medals did (Sir) Chris Hoy win at the Beijing Olympics?
Q. Which comic character had a dog called Snowy and was assisted by Captain Haddock?
Q. Which metal is extracted from bauxite?
Q. What connects Tony Stark and Robert Downey Jr?
Q. Which Music Hall song features the lines “You look neat. Talk about a treat! You look so dapper from your napper to your feet”?
Q. Joanna Lumley played “Sapphire”, but who played “Steel”?
Q. Which other metal is added to steel to make stainless steel?
Q. In which 1980s TV comedy series did Timothy West play the despotic Bradley Hardacre?
Q. What links the Lone Ranger’s horse and a film starring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior?
Q. Copper and tin are the main constituents of which alloy?

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