Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The Great Charter signed in 1215 that is the cornerstone of the British constitution | Magna Carta | 91%
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The best known conspirator of ^ | Guy Fawkes | 77%
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Monarch who was forced to sign ^ by the Barons | King John | 77%
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First female Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher | 72%
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Prime Minister during the Second World War | Winston Churchill | 72%
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Soldier and statesman who led the armies of Parliament during the English Civil War and was Lord Protector from 1653-58 | Oliver Cromwell | 71%
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What the letters MP stand for | Member of Parliament | 69%
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Area that an MP represents | Constituency | 66%
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Name given to the conspiracy to assassinate King James I in 1605 by blowing up Parliament | The Gunpowder Plot | 66%
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Term used for when two or more parties agree to work together to form a Government | Coalition | 62%
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Party that won the 2019 general election, with an 80-seat majority | Conservative | 62%
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Publicly funded healthcare system set up under the Labour Government of Clement Attlee in 1946 | National Health Service | 62%
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Name of the great bell housed in the Elizabeth Tower | Big Ben | 61%
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Current Prime Minister | Rishi Sunak | 59%
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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 | 58%
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Collective name for the Prime Minister and his most senior frontbench Government officials who represent the departments of state | Cabinet | 56%
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MP who chairs debates in the House of Commons | The Speaker | 55%
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Address of the Prime Minister | 10 Downing Street | 54%
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Party official appointed to help organise the party's contribution to parliamentary business and keep MPs in line | Whip | 52%
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^ His great rival, twice Conservative PM and a noted author, to date the only PM of Jewish birth | Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield | 51%
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Term used for when a Party wins an overwhelming majority in a general election | Landslide | 50%
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Public declaration of ideas and policies of a political party, usually introduced in an election campaign | Manifesto | 50%
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Traditional day when a general election is held | Thursday | 50%
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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 | 49%
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Controversial policy introduced by Margaret Thatcher which sparked riots | Poll Tax | 49%
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The year of the 'three-day week' and two general elections | 1974 | 48%
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Number of MPs in Parliament | 650 | 47%
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The youngest PM in British history, 24 when he came to office | William Pitt the Younger | 47%
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King whose love for American divorcee Wallis Simpson sparked the 1936 Abdication Crisis | Edward VIII | 44%
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Term used for when a general election returns no outright winner | Hung Parliament | 44%
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Statesman considered Britain's first Prime Minister | Sir Robert Walpole | 44%
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Welsh Liberal politician who was PM during the last two years of the First World War | David Lloyd George | 43%
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Leader of the british suffragette movement | Emmeline Pankhurst | 43%
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Year women aged 21 and over were given the vote | 1928 | 41%
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Hero of the Battle of Waterloo, twice Tory Prime Minister | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | 41%
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Name for what takes place when a seat in the House of Commons becomes vacant between general elections | By-election | 41%
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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 | 41%
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MPs and Lords can sit on these panels to examine the work of Government departments | Select Committees | 40%
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Year that men aged 21 and over were given the vote | 1918 | 39%
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Name of the current Speaker of the House of Commons | Sir Lindsay Hoyle | 39%
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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 | 38%
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Liberal politician who served as PM four seperate times in the 19th century, nicknamed the "grand old man" by his supporters | William Ewart Gladstone | 37%
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Including the 2019 election, how many general elections there have been since the Second World War | 21 | 33%
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Prime Minister of the 'National Government' of the 1930s, still considered by many in the Labour Party as a "traitor" | James Ramsay Macdonald | 33%
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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 | Lady Usher of the Black Rod | 33%
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Year that the voting age was reduced to 18 | 1969 | 30%
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Monarchs that Parliament offered the crown to in the Glorious Revolution #1 | William III | 30%
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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 | 29%
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First female Speaker of the House of Commons | Betty Boothroyd | 28%
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The nefarious practice of using a long speech to delay or obstruct parliamentary business | Filibuster | 27%
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What the Prime Minister stands at when addressing the Speaker in the House of Commons | Despatch Box | 26%
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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 | 26%
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Unpopular legislation in force until 1846 that imposed restrictions and tariffs on imported grain | Corn Laws | 25%
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MP, Social reformer and philanthropist who was one of the foremost leaders of the movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire | William Wilberforce | 23%
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Where an MP or Lord sits in their respective debating chamber if they are neither a Minister or spokesperson for their party | Backbenches | 22%
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Official report of proceedings in the Houses of Parliament | Hansard | 21%
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Primary founder of the Labour Party | James Keir Hardie | 21%
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#2 | Mary II | 21%
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The only Prime Minister to be assassinated, in 1812 | Spencer Perceval | 21%
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Final stage of a Bill passing through Parliament | Royal Assent | 20%
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Collective name given to the 26 Bishops who sit in the House of Lords | Lords Spiritual | 18%
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Essayist and Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII who submitted the first known request for freedom of speech in Parliament | Sir Thomas More | 18%
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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 | 17%
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19th Century working class movement for political reform that pressured for manhood suffrage | Chartism | 16%
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Ceremonial staff of office symbolising Royal authority that lies in the Commons when it is in session | Mace | 16%
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The principal area in the Palace of Westminster where constituents can meet their MPs | Central Lobby | 15%
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First female MP to be elected and take her seat in the House of Commons | Nancy Astor | 15%
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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 | 15%
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Annual event marking the commencement of a session of Parliament | State Opening of Parliament | 15%
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Official term for the end of a Parliament, heralding a general election | Dissolution | 14%
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Declaration presented to ^ considered a landmark development in the civil liberties of England | Bill of Rights | 13%
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Name of the meeting of MPs convened to push through an act establishing a court to try Charles I | Rump Parliament | 13%
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The oldest existing part of the Palace of Westminster which survived the fire and dates back to 1097 | Westminster Hall | 13%
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Annex opened in 2001 to provide extra offices for MPs | Portcullis House | 12%
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13th Century Nobleman who convened the first Parliament in 1265 | Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | 12%
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Year the original Palace of Westminster burnt down | 1834 | 11%
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Number of Peers eligible to take part in the work of the House of Lords | 800 | 11%
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Name of the meeting of MPs convened in 1640 to dismantle the structures of personal rule under King Charles I | Long Parliament | 11%
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Officer responsible for the security of the House of Commons and the personal safety of The Speaker | Serjeant at Arms | 10%
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The most prominent of the "five members" who Charles I attempted to arrest in Parliament in 1642 | John Pym | 8%
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Official term for the end of a parliamentary session | Prorogation | 8%
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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 | 8%
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Principal officer of the House of Commons, the utmost authority on procedure and privilege and the CEO of the House | Clerk of the House | 7%
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Part of the Palace of Westminster that houses the Parliamentary archives | Victoria Tower | 6%
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#2 | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin | 5%
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Name of the Lord Speaker | Lord McFall of Alcluith | 5%
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The two architects who designed and built the new Palace that exists to this day #1 | Sir Charles Barry | 4%
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Speaker who defied Charles I when the King entered Parliament to arrest the "five members" | William Lenthal | 3%
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Name of the tune ^ plays to announce the hour | Westminster Chimes | 2%
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First Speaker of the House of Commons | Sir Thomas Hungerford | 0%
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