MASTERMIND FREE COMPETITIONS, FREE QUIZZES

1. Why would a Westminster MP apply for the Chiltern Hundreds?
   In order to be allowed to resign
   
   
2. What is the name of the Parliament made up of the two houses, the House of Keys and the Legislative Council?
   Tynwald, Isle of Man
   
   
3. In order to canvass support for a proposal unlikely to be debated in the House and to express a personal opinion, what does a Westminster MP table?
   An Early Day Motion
   
   
4. After expelling its kings, Ancient Rome granted absolute power to a new style of leader but only for a strictly limited term of one year. What was the title of these leaders?
   Consuls (power split between two)
   
   
5. A Bill is 'talked out' by speakers exhausting the available time. In the US and the UK this procedure is known as what?
   A filibuster
   
   
6. Among the governing bodies of which ancient republic was the Council of Ten (or simply the Ten)?
   Venice
   
   
7. In the British Government who is at any given time the First Lord of the Treasury?
   The Prime Minister - the No.10 letter box is so engraved
   
   
8. Broadly speaking the Whigs prefigure which modern political party in Britain?
   The Lib Dems
   
   
9. Thomas Nast, 19th century political cartoonist, was largely credited with making the donkey and the elephant the established symbols (if not necessarily the adopted symbols) of which political groups?
   The Democrats and the Republicans respectively (USA)
   
   
10. In 1919 who led the Spartakist Rising in Berlin?
    (Any one of) Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, Leo Jogisches, Clara Zetkin
    
    
11. Who arrived at the Finland Station in Saint Petersburg on 3 April 1917?
    Lenin