Question: Which Parliamentary Acts allow a bill to be presented for assent even after the House of Lords has refused it?
Answer: Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949

Question: Who can be authorized to grant assent by letters patent?
Answer: the sovereign or by Lords Commissioners

Question: In what language does the Clerk of the Parliaments announce Parliament's decision?
Answer: Anglo-Norman Law French

Question: What words in Anglo-Norman Law French announce a granted assent?
Answer: "La Reyne remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult"

Question: What is the shortened version of the notification of assent?
Answer: "La Reyne le veult"

Question: What phrase is used to announce a withheld assent?
Answer: "La Reyne s'avisera"

Question: When assention was formally granted in person, who read the titles of the bills?
Answer: The Clerk of the Crown

Question: What job did the Clerk of the Parliaments have during assention notifications?
Answer: stating the appropriate Norman French formula

Question: Before whose reign was assent always granted in person?
Answer: Henry VIII

Question: Nowadays, when is the only time a formal assention ceremony occurs?
Answer: the annual State Opening of Parliament

Question: On which side of the soverign does the Clerk of the Crown stand?
Answer: right

Question: Why did Henry VIII wish to execute his fifth wife?
Answer: committing adultery

Question: What was Henry VIII trying to avoid by creating a new procedure for granting assent?
Answer: listening to the entire text

Question: How many times in the 16th century was assent granted by Commissioners?
Answer: five

Question: Who was the last monarch to grant assent personally?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: How many lords are usually present during assent by Commissioner?
Answer: five

Question: What do the Lords Commissioners wear to a ceremony of assent?
Answer: scarlet parliamentary robes

Question: Which commissioner reads the formal closing statement to the assention ceremony?
Answer: the senior

Question: Which position reads the commisssion aloud during tthe ceremony?
Answer: The Lords Reading Clerk

Question: During which decade was assention by commission discontinued?
Answer: the 1960s

Question: When does assention by commission occur today?
Answer: once a year, at the end of the annual parliamentary session

Question: In whatear did several members refuse to attend the assention ceremony after a heated debate?
Answer: 1960

Question: What was passed in reference to the discord in 1960 and 1965 during assention cremonies?
Answer: Royal Assent Act 1967

Question: What is unique about the method used for assention allowed by the Royal Assent Act 1967?
Answer: does not require both houses to meet jointly

Question: How is assent granted under the Royal Assent Act 1967?
Answer: by the sovereign in writing, by means of letters patent, that are presented to the presiding officer of each house of parliament

Question: Which document formats the letters patent?
Answer: The Crown Office (Forms and Proclamations Rules) Order 1992

Question: In which year were minor amendments made to the Crown Office Order?
Answer: 2000

Question: When assent is granted in person, when is it formally considered final?
Answer: when the assent is declared in the presence of both houses jointly assembled

Question: An assent is considered granted when applying the Royal Assent Act 1967 when both presiding officers have done what?
Answer: notified their respective house of the grant of royal assent

Question: When is assent effective if the presiding officers inform their houses at different times?
Answer: when the second announcement is made

Question: Whose responsibility is it to assure that assent has been granted?
Answer: Clerk of the Parliaments

Question: What is omitted when an act is published?
Answer: signature of the clerk is omitted, as is the Norman French formula

Question: Who writes the formal Norman French formula on passed acts?
Answer: Clerk of the Parliaments

Question: In what year did the New Zealand governor-general last personally grant the royal assent in parliament?
Answer: 1875

Question: Which country has not used the formal assention ceremony since the early 20th century?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who are the leaders of each house given the responsibility of informing their group of the governor-generals actions?
Answer: President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

Question: When did Canada finally cease to use the traditional ceremony for granting assent as regular practice?
Answer: the 21st century

Question: Why was King George VI's personal assent in 1939 noteworthy?
Answer: 85 years after his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, had last granted royal assent personally

Question: With what bill in Canada did granting assent by writing become effective?
Answer: Royal Assent Act 2002

Question: From where is the sovereign typically forbidden?
Answer: House of Commons

Question: Whose job is it to release parliament after the ceremony?
Answer: The governor general or his or her deputy

Question: Who reads the formal statement after the list of bills has been finished?
Answer: Clerk of the Senate

Question: Which position nods their head to signify assention?
Answer: governor general

Question: What is royal assent called in Belgium?
Answer: sanction royale

Question: Who declared the monarch incapable of acting upon an abortion decriminalization bill in 1990?
Answer: Council of Ministers

Question: Which King refused to sign an abortion decriminalization bill in 1990?
Answer: King Baudouin

Question: Who declared the King capable of excersizing power again after a brief lapse in 1990?
Answer: both houses of parliament

Question: How much time does a Jordinian leader have to sign or veto legislation?
Answer: six months

Question: What majority is required to override a veto from the soverign?
Answer: two-thirds

Question: What happens if the soverign doesn't sign the bill within the six-month time frame?
Answer: , it becomes law without his signature

Question: What text is written and sent to the Senate if the House approves of a law?
Answer: "The Second Chamber of the States General sends the following approved proposal of law to the First Chamber"

Question: What text is written and sent back to the government if a bill is rejected?
Answer: The Second Chamber of the States General has rejected the accompanying proposal of law."

Question: If the Senate approves the law after receiving it from the House, what is written and sent to the government?
Answer: "To the King, The States General have accepted the proposal of law as it is offered here."

Question: Where are laws published after receiving assent?
Answer: the State Magazine

Question: Where is the original law text stored?
Answer: in the archives of the King's Offices

Question: What happens in the rare case the government doesn't approve of a law that has passed both houses?
Answer: neither the monarch nor a minister will sign the bill, notifying the States General that "The King will keep the proposal under advisement."

Question: Which articles in the Norwegian Constitution allow the monarch to reject a bill that has been passed through the Sorting?
Answer: Articles 77–79

Question: Which article in the Norweigan Constitution provides a way to override a monarch's veto?
Answer: Article 79

Question: How many elections are required to assend a bill that the monarch has vetoed?
Answer: two

Question: Which article in the Spanish constitution gives the monarch the right to ask for a referendum?
Answer: Article 92

Question: Which article specifies the number of days available to the monarch to provide a signature on an assended bill?
Answer: Article 91

Question: In the 1978 Spanish constitution, which title describes how bills are passed?
Answer: Title III, The Cortes Generales