Parliament

Question 1

What year, and who was the first labour prime minister

Answer 1

1924 - Ramsey Mac Donald

Question 2

Which prime minister tried to push back the Coronation of Elizabeth II as far back as possible.

Answer 2

Winston Churchill

Question 3

The British Madate for Palestine ended when?

Answer 3

1948

Question 4

Who did Queen Elizabeth II choose to go into parliament when Harold macmillan was taken ill in 1963 ?

Answer 4

Alec Douglas- conservative beat by Harold Wilson 1964.

Question 5

Sexual offence Act came in what year ?

Answer 5

1964 - act to De Criminalise homosexuallty between men over the age of 2.

Question 6

The winter of discontent was when and why ?

Answer 6

1978-79 people were striking all over.

Question 7

How long did Margaret Thatcher lead for?

Answer 7

11 years

Question 8

The Right to Buy and privatisation came in what Decade?

Answer 8

1980s giving people on low wage jobs tge right to buy and privatising lots of different services.

Question 9

What year did the Berlin wall come down?

Answer 9

1989
It was put up in August 1961.

Question 10

When was the start of the Irish peace Process?

Answer 10

1990-1997- under John Major.

Question 11

Who signed the Belfast peace agreement “ Good Friday “ 1998 ?

Answer 11

Tony Blair.

Question 12

Succession to the Crown Act came in when ?

Answer 12

2013 the Act which was changed from the ladies of the Royal line get the chance to be in a fair place to the thrown.

Question 13

The coal act came in under What Prime Minister, and what year?
Also, the same year, the Holiday pay act came in

Answer 13

Neville Chamberlain
1938.

Question 14

The holiday with Pay Act was in what year ?

Answer 14

1938 - Neville Chamberlain Conservative.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) had been campaigning for paid holidays since 1911.

Question 15

Who said, “In The Name Of God …Go

Answer 15

Leo Amery MP : This was asking Chamberlain to stand down.

Question 16

When did Chamberlain meet Hitler?

Answer 16

1933, 30 September, where the Munich agreement happened.
France, Great Britain, Italy attended.

Question 17

When is VE day?

Answer 17

8th May 1945 Victory In Europe

Question 18

Who was the Code Breaker who cracked the German Enigma Code

Answer 18

Alan Turing at Bletchley Park 1945-1947

Question 19

What Victory happened on August 15th 1945

Answer 19

Victory of Japan.

Question 20

Tell me two ways the Home guard- Dads army helped to confuse the invaders in World War 2 ?

Answer 20

Taking down road signs to stop the invaders, knowing where they were going

Making sure lights were turned off during air raids The blitz.

Question 21

Who Beat Winston Churchill after the war ?

Answer 21

Clement Attlee ( Labour 1945-1951)

Question 22

When was the Independence of India?

Answer 22

1947 India came away from the Empire of Great Britain.

Question 23

What year did Winston Churchill win for the second time?

Answer 23

1951-1955.

Question 24

What year were the widows’ orphans and old age contribution pensions ?

Answer 24

1925

Question 25

When was the General Strike, and how long?

Answer 25

1926- 5 Days.

Question 26

During the wall street crash which Prime Minister and what year?

Answer 26

Ramsay MacDonld (1929-1933)

Question 27

What was the Doctors Mandate in 1931 ?

Answer 27

MacDonald subsequently campaigned for a "Doctor's Mandate" to do whatever was necessary to fix the economy, running as the leader of a new party called National Labour within the coalition.

Question 28

Edward VIII Marriage to Wallis Simpson was what year ?

Answer 28

1936 and a year later, he abdicated and his brother George VI became King.

Question 29

When was the Royal Airforce Formed?

Answer 29

1st April 1918.

Question 30

What was the name of the Ace fighter Pilot for the German Airforce in WWI

Answer 30

Manfred von Richtofen ( was shot down)

Question 31

What were the Gotha?

Answer 31

Bombers used in German Air Raids on london.

Question 32

Who was the Prime Minister of Britain in 1902-1905

Answer 32

Arthur Balfour ( Conservative)

Question 33

When was the education Act passed ?

Answer 33

1902 The Act provided funds for denominational religious instruction in voluntary elementary schools, most of which were owned by the Church of England .

Question 34

When did land purchase Act come in ?

Answer 34

1903 To encourage Irish landlords to sell their estates to their tenant farmers, providing the tenants with government loans to purchase the land.

Question 35

Which Prime Minister was in Power during WW1q

Answer 35

Herbert Henry Asquith 1908-1916 ( Liberal Party)

Question 36

What year did the National Insurance Act get passed?

Answer 36

1911 The National Insurance Act 1911 created a national system of insurance to protect working people against loss of income relating to sickness or unemployment

Question 37

When was the first Home Rule act in Great Britain?

Answer 37

1886 With a three-hour Irish Home Rule speech Gladstone beseeched parliament to pass the Government of Ireland Bill 1886, and grant home rule to Ireland in honour rather than being compelled to do so one day in humiliation. The bill was defeated in the Commons by 30 votes.

Question 38

What does Jingism mean ?

Answer 38

extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.

Question 39

What year was the Gallipoli Campaign?

Answer 39

What happened in the Gallipoli campaign? The Gallipoli Campaign was the land-based element of a broad strategy to defeat the Ottoman Empire. A British-French fleet had made several attempts to breach Ottoman defences in the Dardanelles but had suffered a decisive defeat on 18 March 1915.

Question 40

What was the name of the Ship in 1916 that was carrying U.S Troops was you boated ?

Answer 40

RMS Lusitania.

Question 41

What was the Royal Airforce Called before WW1 ?

Answer 41

Royal Flying Corps

Question 42

When was the first Zeppelin raids on London ?

Answer 42

1915- The first incendiary bomb dropped by a Zeppelin in London landed on Alkham Road in Stoke Newington on the night of May 31, 1915. The bomb hit the house of Albert Lovell and his family.

Question 43

What was the year of the Falklands?

Answer 43

1982- Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister at the time The Falklands War lasted 74 days, from April 2, 1982 to June 14, 1982. The war ended when Argentine forces surrendered.

Question 44

Who's been the Richest Prime Minister ever in Britain

Answer 44

Rishi sunak (2022-2024)

Question 45

What Country's are NOT members of the Commonwealth?

Answer 45

Republic of Ireland 🇮🇪 Myanmar 🇲🇲 South Africa 🇿🇦 left and came back Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 withdrew in 2003 Gambia 🇬🇲 withdrew in 2013

Question 47

How many members of Parliament sit in the House of Commons?

Answer 47

UK parliament has 650 MPs