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QUESTIONS
- What does the Lord Chancellor sit on in the House of Lords?
- In what year of the 1970s did Margaret Thatcher become leader of the Conservative Party?
- For how many years were the Conservatives in consecutive power before Tony Blair won in 1997?
- By what name was the unpopular forerunner of Council Tax usually known?
- In which year in the 1970s were there two General Elections?
- What distinction is held by Edmund Waller, elected to parliament in 1622?
- Which Cabinet member resigned over the Iraq War on 17thMarch 2003?
- Which politician and former Secretary of State For Wales was nicknamed ‘Spock’?
- Which M.P. announced she was separating from her husband David Mills in March 2006 following accusation that he had accepted bribes from the Italian government?
- Which Conservative politician was nicknamed ‘Tarzan’?
- Which country has the driest inhabited area in the world?
- Which Cornish Village suffered a freak flood in the summer of 2004?
- What name is given to an occasion when the equator is furthest from the sun?
- Which county is England’s wettest?
- Which usually travels faster, a cold front or a warm front?
- Which sea area is immediately to the South of Ireland?
- Over which mountains does the chinook blow?
- Which 1990’s Eurovision Song Contest winner shares her name with a devastating hurricane?
- The name of which type of cloud is Latin for a lock of hair?
- What is Fata Morgana and where would you see it?
- What was the name of the first storm to be given a name?
- Which volcanic rock is named after a mountain range in South America?
- What is our Solar System’s nearest stellar neighbour?
- Which Asian Country has the greatest area of inland water?
- What is the highest waterfall in Norway?
- What is the next largest body solar system after Venus?
- What is the largest lake in the UK after Neagh?
- In which US State is the mammoth cave system?
- What is V4641 Sgr?
- What was the first asteroid to be discovered?
ANSWERS
- The Woolsack
- 1975
- 18
- Poll Tax
- 1974
- Youngest ever M.P. (Age 16)
- Robin Cook
- John Redwood
- Tessa Jowell
- Michael Heseltine
- Egypt
- Boscastle
- Solstice
- Cumbria
- Cold Front
- Fastnet
- Rockies
- Katrina
- Cirrus
- Mirage, Strait of Messini, Italy
- Carol
- Andesite
- Proxima Centauri
- India
- Utigard
- Mars
- Erne
- Kentucky
- Black Hole
- Ceres