1951-1964 political

Question 1

when did Churchill have a stroke

Answer 1

1953

Question 2

when did Churchill give up office

Answer 2

1955

Question 3

when did Macmillan publish The Middle Way

Answer 3

1938

Question 4

how many houses did Macmillan pledge to build annually

Answer 4

300,000

Question 5

who gave Macmillan the nickname Supermac

Answer 5

Cartoonist VIcky Weisz

Question 6

who was Churchill’s chancellor

Answer 6

Butler

Question 7

who was Churchill’s foreign sec

Answer 7

Eden

Question 8

who was Churchill’s minister of housing

Answer 8

Macmillan

Question 9

how many of Eden’s cabinet were old Etonians

Answer 9

10 of 18

Question 10

who was Eden’s chancellor

Answer 10

Butler

Question 11

who was Eden’s foreign secretary

Answer 11

Selwyn Lloyd

Question 12

how many conservative backbenchers had been to Eton

Answer 12

20% in 1955

Question 13

who was Macmillan’s home sec

Answer 13

Butler

Question 14

which young members of the party did Macmillan promote

Answer 14

Enoch Powell, Reginald Muadling, Edward Heath

Question 15

how many of Macmillan’s cabinet were Etonians

Answer 15

9

Question 16

how many of Douglas Home’s cabinet were Etonians

Answer 16

11

Question 17

who was Douglas Home’s chancellor

Answer 17

Maudling

Question 18

which member of the national press was particularly critical of Eden’s role in Suez

Answer 18

the Manchester Guardian

Question 19

who resigned from cabinet over Suez

Answer 19

Colonial Minister Anthony Nutting

Question 20

when did Eden resign

Answer 20

Jan 1957

Question 21

what was voter turnout in 1959

Answer 21

78.8%

Question 22

who did Churchill appoint as minister for Labour

Answer 22

Sir Walter Monckton

Question 23

what was trade union membership under Churchill

Answer 23

9.53 million

Question 24

who was the TGWU general secretary from 1956

Answer 24

Frank COusins

Question 25

what was the TGWU

Answer 25

Transport and General Workers' Union

Question 26

what union act did the conservatives refuse to re-enact

Answer 26

1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act

Question 27

when were there national strikes in shipbuilding and engineering

Answer 27

March 1957

Question 28

how did the Observer describe the national shipbuilding and engineering strikes

Answer 28

'the most serious crisis since 1926'

Question 29

when did Cousins take on the government over a pay claim for London Transport

Answer 29

June 1958

Question 30

when did Macmillan launch NICKY and NEDY

Answer 30

1962

Question 31

what did Macmillan say of Thorneycroft's resignation

Answer 31

'a little local difficulty'

Question 32

when did Macmillan sack 1/3 of his cabinet

Answer 32

'Night of Long Knives' 1962

Question 33

when was the Vassall Affair

Answer 33

1963

Question 34

who was the 'third man' with Burgess and Maclean

Answer 34

Kim Philby

Question 35

when did Macmillan tell the House of Commons there was no evidence against Philby

Answer 35

1955 as foreign secretary

Question 36

when was the Profumo Affair

Answer 36

1963

Question 37

who had Profumo been involved with, and who was she involved with

Answer 37

Christine Keeler, she had been consorting with Soviet Military Attache Yevgeny Ivanov

Question 38

when did Profumo deny the charges in the House of Commons

Answer 38

March 1963

Question 39

when did Macmillan resign

Answer 39

Oct 1963

Question 40

what was the Labour lead in a gallup survey immediately after profumo's resignation

Answer 40

over 20%

Question 41

what % of the vote did the conservatives and labour have in the 1951 election

Answer 41

conservatives - 48% labour - 48.8%

Question 42

what was the conservative majority in 1951

Answer 42

15

Question 43

who did Churchill appoint as the Chairman of the party

Answer 43

Lord Woolton

Question 44

when was Lord Woolton appointed party chairman

Answer 44

1946

Question 45

who made recommendations at democratising the selection of parliamentary candidates

Answer 45

Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe

Question 46

when did the Young Conservative Movement start

Answer 46

1946

Question 47

what committed the conservatives to the welfare state, mixed economy, and full employment

Answer 47

1947 Industrial Charter

Question 48

what formed the basis of the party's 1950 manifesto

Answer 48

1949 'The Right Road for Britain'

Question 49

what additional expenditure was Gaitskell and Labour responsible for in the Korean War

Answer 49

£4700 million for the next 3 years from Jan 1951

Question 50

what was the deficit in the gold and dollar reserves under Labour

Answer 50

reached $638 million between July and Sept 1951

Question 51

who led labour's consolidationists

Answer 51

Herbert Morrison

Question 52

who led labour's expansionists

Answer 52

Nye Bevan

Question 53

what did Bevan refer to the tories as

Answer 53

'Lower than Vermin'

Question 54

what was Labour's 1950 manifesto

Answer 54

'Let Us Win Through Together'

Question 55

what fraction of the total budget was health charges

Answer 55

£13 million out of £400 million

Question 56

which tory slogan appealed to the middle classes

Answer 56

'set the people free'

Question 57

where were there swings towards the government in the 1955 recent by-elections

Answer 57

Sutton and Cheam, Orpington, Twickenham

Question 58

what was the voter turnout of the 1955 election

Answer 58

76.7%

Question 59

what was the majority in the 1955 election

Answer 59

58

Question 60

what did the conservative and labour vote slump by

Answer 60

conservatives 1/2 million labour 1.5 million

Question 61

what did Macmillan increase the party majority by in 1959 election

Answer 61

from 67 to 107

Question 62

what was the 1959 election slogan

Answer 62

'Life's Better Under the Conservatives'

Question 63

what did Macmillan say on affluence

Answer 63

'indeed let us be frank about it - most of our people have never had it so good'

Question 64

where did the Tories lose to labour in Feb 1957

Answer 64

North lewisham

Question 65

when did they lose North Lewisham to labour

Answer 65

Feb 1957

Question 66

when did they lose Rochdale to labour

Answer 66

feb 1958

Question 67

where did they lose to labour in Feb 1958

Answer 67

Rochdale

Question 68

how many seats had the conservatives lost by summer 1958

Answer 68

4 2 to Labour 2 to Liberals

Question 69

where did the conservatives lose to the Liberals in March 1962

Answer 69

Orpington in Kent

Question 70

when did the conservatives lose Orpington to the liberals

Answer 70

March 1962

Question 71

what did the tory vote slump by in Orpington

Answer 71

26%

Question 72

how many seats did the conservatives lose to labour in 1962

Answer 72

3

Question 73

how many seats did Labour lose due to the changes in boundaries of constituencies in 1951

Answer 73

30

Question 74

what was Eden's election slogan

Answer 74

Conservative Freedom Works

Question 75

how many new homes had been built by 1964

Answer 75

1.7 million

Question 76

who made up the right wing group in labour

Answer 76

Gaitskell and Crosland

Question 77

when did Bevanites defy the party whip and vote against rearmament

Answer 77

1952

Question 78

how many Bevanites voted against rearmament in 1952

Answer 78

57

Question 79

how many labour MPs defied party orders to vote in favour of the H bomb

Answer 79

62

Question 80

when did MPs defy party orders to vote for the H bomb

Answer 80

1955

Question 81

when did Bevan resign

Answer 81

1951