Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Was a woman (name any of them) | Margaret Thatcher; Theresa May; Liz Truss | 99%
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Commonly regarded as the first British Prime Minister | Robert Walpole | 63%
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Oversaw the founding of the NHS | Clement Attlee | 62%
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The most recent Prime Minister who was born in Edinburgh | Tony Blair | 59%
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Founded the Metropolitan Police Service | Robert Peel | 53%
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The most recent Liberal (or Liberal Democrat) Prime Minister | David Lloyd George | 44%
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The namesake of a contentious UK government declaration relating to Israel and Palestine | Arthur Balfour | 43%
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The first Labour Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald | 42%
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Was born outside of the British Isles (name either of them) | Andrew Bonar Law; Boris Johnson | 41%
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The most recent Prime Minister who didn't go to university | John Major | 35%
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Was assassinated | Spencer Perceval | 32%
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Was the Earl of a port city in northern England | Earl of Liverpool | 31%
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Wrote and published sixteen novels, one of which was subtitled "a moral tale, though gay" | Benjamin Disraeli | 29%
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Was despised by the suffragette movement for his refusal to grant women the vote, causing them to try to burn down a theatre he was in and throw an axe at his head on the same day | H. H. Asquith | 29%
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The most recent person to have been Prime Minister whilst (briefly) being a member of the House of Lords | Alec Douglas-Home | 24%
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Held all four Great Offices of State (PM, Chancellor, Home Secretary, and Foreign Secretary) | James Callaghan | 23%
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The namesake of a convention that says the House of Lords shall not try to prevent any legislation that was promised in the government's election manifesto | Lord Salisbury | 6%
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Led a "caretaker ministry" for a month whilst waiting for the next Prime Minister to return from holiday in Italy | Duke of Wellington | 5%
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Led what is sometimes known as the "Who? Who?" ministry | Earl of Derby | 4%
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The only 20th-century Conservative leader, apart from William Hague, who was never Prime Minister (first name and last name required) | Austen Chamberlain | 3%
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