Stats: British Politics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Great Charter signed in 1215 that is the cornerstone of the British constitution	Magna Carta	92%
Monarch who was forced to sign ^ by the Barons	King John	73%
The best known conspirator of ^	Guy Fawkes	70%
First female Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	68%
What the letters MP stand for	Member of Parliament	68%
Prime Minister during the Second World War	Winston Churchill	68%
Soldier and statesman who led the armies of Parliament during the English Civil War and was Lord Protector from 1653-58	Oliver Cromwell	66%
Party that won the 2024 General Election, with a 174-seat majority	Labour	65%
Area that an MP represents	Constituency	64%
Name given to the conspiracy to assassinate King James I in 1605 by blowing up Parliament	The Gunpowder Plot	63%
Publicly funded healthcare system set up under the Labour Government of Clement Attlee in 1946	National Health Service	62%
Current Prime Minister	Sir Keir Starmer	62%
Name of the great bell housed in the Elizabeth Tower	Big Ben	58%
Term used for when two or more parties agree to work together to form a Government	Coalition	57%
Party official appointed to help organise the party's contribution to parliamentary business and keep MPs in line	Whip	55%
Address of the Prime Minister	10 Downing Street	54%
Collective name for the Prime Minister and his most senior frontbench Government officials who represent the departments of state	Cabinet	54%
Controversial policy introduced by Margaret Thatcher which sparked riots	Poll Tax	50%
MP who chairs debates in the House of Commons	The Speaker	50%
^ His great rival, twice Conservative PM and a noted author, to date the only PM of Jewish birth	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield	49%
Term used for when a Party wins an overwhelming majority in a general election	Landslide	49%
Early political party that played a central role in the 1688 Glorious Revolution and contested power with the rival Tory Party into the 19th Century	Whigs	49%
Public declaration of ideas and policies of a political party, usually introduced in an election campaign	Manifesto	47%
Term describing the to and fro of amendments to Bills between the Commons and the Lords (also an alternative name for table tennis)	Ping Pong	46%
Hero of the Battle of Waterloo, twice Tory Prime Minister	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington	44%
Number of MPs in Parliament	650	43%
The youngest PM in British history, 24 when he came to office	William Pitt the Younger	43%
The year of the 'three-day week' and two general elections	1974	42%
Leader of the british suffragette movement	Emmeline Pankhurst	42%
Term used for when a general election returns no outright winner	Hung Parliament	42%
Prime Minister and one of the founders of the Conservative Party who, when Home Secretary, created the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829	Sir Robert Peel	42%
Statesman considered Britain's first Prime Minister	Sir Robert Walpole	41%
Name for what takes place when a seat in the House of Commons becomes vacant between general elections	By-election	40%
Welsh Liberal politician who was PM during the last two years of the First World War	David Lloyd George	40%
MPs and Lords can sit on these panels to examine the work of Government departments	Select Committees	40%
Traditional day when a general election is held	Thursday	40%
King whose love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson sparked the 1936 Abdication Crisis	Edward VIII	38%
Liberal politician who served as PM four seperate times in the 19th century, nicknamed the "grand old man" by his supporters	William Ewart Gladstone	36%
Year that men aged 21 and over were given the vote	1918	34%
Year women aged 21 and over were given the vote	1928	34%
Name of the current Speaker of the House of Commons	Sir Lindsay Hoyle	33%
Including the 2024 election, how many general elections there have been since the Second World War	22	32%
Shakespearean term coined by James Callaghan to describe the rash of rampant strike actions over the Christmas and New Year period of 1979	Winter of Discontent	32%
The nefarious practice of using a long speech to delay or obstruct parliamentary business	Filibuster	30%
Around 500 people who have reached high office, including many MPs and Peers, are members of this assembly set up to advise the Queen in carrying out her duties as Monarch	Privy Council	30%
Year that the voting age was reduced to 18	1969	29%
Name of the House of Lords official who, during ^ summons the House of Commons to attend the Queen's Speech by striking the door of the Commons chamber with his staff	Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod	29%
Monarchs that Parliament offered the crown to in the Glorious Revolution #1	William III	29%
Prime Minister of the 'National Government' of the 1930s, still considered by many in the Labour Party as a "traitor"	James Ramsay Macdonald	28%
MP, Social reformer and philanthropist who was one of the foremost leaders of the movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire	William Wilberforce	28%
First female Speaker of the House of Commons	Betty Boothroyd	26%
What the Prime Minister stands at when addressing the Speaker in the House of Commons	Despatch Box	26%
Where an MP or Lord sits in their respective debating chamber if they are neither a Minister or spokesperson for their party	Backbenches	25%
Unpopular legislation in force until 1846 that imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain	Corn Laws	21%
Official report of proceedings in the Houses of Parliament	Hansard	20%
Primary founder of the Labour Party	James Keir Hardie	20%
Essayist and Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII who submitted the first known request for freedom of speech in Parliament	Sir Thomas More	20%
Official term for the end of a Parliament, heralding a general election	Dissolution	19%
To date, the only politician to have held the four great offices of state: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary	James Callaghan	19%
#2	Mary II	19%
Final stage of a Bill passing through Parliament	Royal Assent	19%
The only Prime Minister to be assassinated, in 1812	Spencer Perceval	18%
Declaration presented to ^ considered a landmark development in the civil liberties of England	Bill of Rights	17%
19th Century working class movement for political reform that pressured for manhood suffrage	Chartism	14%
Suffragette who hid in a broom cupboard in the Palace of Westminster the night of the 1911 Census and was later killed running into the path of a racehorse at the 1913 Epsom Derby	Emily Wilding Davison	14%
Collective name given to the 26 Bishops who sit in the House of Lords	Lords Spiritual	14%
Ceremonial staff of office symbolising Royal authority that lies in the Commons when it is in session	Mace	14%
First female MP to be elected and take her seat in the House of Commons	Nancy Astor	14%
Annual event marking the commencement of a session of Parliament	State Opening of Parliament	14%
The oldest existing part of the Palace of Westminster which survived the fire and dates back to 1097	Westminster Hall	13%
Year the original Palace of Westminster burnt down	1834	12%
The principal area in the Palace of Westminster where constituents can meet their MPs	Central Lobby	12%
Informal name for the Representation of the People Act of 1832, which introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales	Reform Act	12%
Annex opened in 2001 to provide extra offices for MPs	Portcullis House	11%
13th Century Nobleman who convened the first Parliament in 1265	Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester	11%
Official term for the end of a parliamentary session	Prorogation	10%
Principal officer of the House of Commons, the utmost authority on procedure and privilege and the CEO of the House	Clerk of the House	9%
Name of the meeting of MPs convened to push through an act establishing a court to try Charles I	Rump Parliament	9%
Number of Peers eligible to take part in the work of the House of Lords	800	8%
Officer responsible for the security of the House of Commons and the personal safety of The Speaker	Serjeant at Arms	7%
Part of the Palace of Westminster that houses the Parliamentary archives	Victoria Tower	7%
The most prominent of the "five members" who Charles I attempted to arrest in Parliament in 1642	John Pym	6%
Name of the meeting of MPs convened in 1640 to dismantle the structures of personal rule under King Charles I	Long Parliament	6%
19th century constitutional theorist and former Clerk of the House of Commons who wrote the definitive guide to parliamentary procedure that is still used around the world	Thomas Erskine May	6%
#2	Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin	5%
The two architects who designed and built the new Palace that exists to this day #1	Sir Charles Barry	5%
Name of the Lord Speaker	Lord McFall of Alcluith	4%
Name of the tune ^ plays to announce the hour	Westminster Chimes	4%
Speaker who defied Charles I when the King entered Parliament to arrest the "five members"	William Lenthal	4%
First Speaker of the House of Commons	Sir Thomas Hungerford	3%

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