Question: What is a parliamentary model on which other systems have been based?
Answer: Westminster system

Question: What kind of role is the head of state in Westminster-based parliamentary governments?
Answer: ceremonial

Question: What is a central duty of the prime minister?
Answer: ensure the passage of bills

Question: What is it called when a monarch has a share of executive powers?
Answer: royal prerogative

Question: Using royal prerogative does not require the consent of which body?
Answer: parliament

Question: What are two other job titles of the Prime Minister of the  UK?
Answer: First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service

Question: In addition to being Prime Minister, what other role did Winston Churchill serve during World War II?
Answer: Minister of Defence

Question: When was the title of prime minister first used?
Answer: 1625

Question: Who coined the term prime minister?
Answer: Cardinal Richelieu

Question: What country did Richelieu serve as prime minister for?
Answer: France

Question: Who started a tradition of naming the head ministers something other than prime minister?
Answer: Louis XIV

Question: When did the modern usage of prime minister come into being?
Answer: 18th century

Question: Who was referenced as prime minister in a negative manner when the term was first used in its modern sense?
Answer: Sir Robert Walpole

Question: Who occupied the role that would later become prime minister under Henry VIII?
Answer: Thomas Cromwell

Question: Who held the equivalent of the post of prime minister under Queen Anne?
Answer: Godolphin

Question: Who served as the head minister under Charles II?
Answer: Clarendon

Question: From whom did ministers derive their power?
Answer: the monarch

Question: Who was responsible for naming people to serve in the cabinet?
Answer: the monarch

Question: Who are the two ministers used by Queen Anne simultaneously?
Answer: Harley and St John

Question: Who was exiled when he lost the favor of the monarch?
Answer: Clarendon

Question: What 1688 event helped the parliament solidy its power against the monarch?
Answer: Glorious Revolution

Question: What 1689 law contributed to parliament's growing power?
Answer: Bill of Rights

Question: What body was incorporated into the government as a result of the Bill of Rights?
Answer: House of Commons

Question: The reign of which king was a turning point in the growth of the position of prime minister?
Answer: George I

Question: In what year did Queen Anne die?
Answer: 1714

Question: Where was George I's home?
Answer: Hanover

Question: For how long did Robert Walpole serve as prime minister?
Answer: twenty-one years

Question: What party did Walpole belong to?
Answer: Whig

Question: What concept took shape during Walpole's tenure as prime minister?
Answer: doctrine of cabinet solidarity

Question: What would a minister have to do if he did not publicly support a cabinet policy?
Answer: resign

Question: Who is another prime minister who reiterated the principles of cabinet solidarity?
Answer: Lord Melbourne

Question: Aside from Walpole, who else denied that there was no such thing as the prime minister?
Answer: parliamentarians and legal scholars

Question: Which kings tried to get power back to the monarchy?
Answer: George II and George III

Question: During whose government did prime minister first see use on official state documents?
Answer: Benjamin Disraeli

Question: When was the position of prime minister finally formalized?
Answer: 1905

Question: In the U.S. and governments modeled on it, who holds executive power?
Answer: president

Question: Which non-elected official has held the longest term as prime minister?
Answer: Sheikh Khalifah bin Sulman Al Khalifah

Question: When did Khalifa first take the post of prime minister?
Answer: 1970

Question: What country does Khalifah serve for as prime minister?
Answer: Bahrain

Question: Greece, Finland, Romania and Turkey use what kind of government?
Answer: parliamentary republics

Question: In whic type of government is the leader elected?
Answer: parliamentary republics

Question: What is the term for the head of China's government?
Answer: Premier of the State Council

Question: What is another name for the Republic of China?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: Whose consent is not required for the Taiwanese premier to take office?
Answer: legislature

Question: What is the term for a situation in which the president and prime minister come from different political parties?
Answer: cohabitation

Question: What can the French parliament cause in order to oust the prime minister?
Answer: resignation of the government

Question: Which constitution details the role and abilities of the prime minister?
Answer: Bangladesh's

Question: What other considerations are included in the constitution of Bangladesh as regards the prime minister?
Answer: the process of his/her appointment and dismissal

Question: What is directly above the premier in the People's Republic of China?
Answer: the National People's Congress

Question: What is the pinyin form of premier?
Answer: Zŏnglĭ

Question: Which law first referred to the prime minister in Canada?
Answer: the Constitution Act

Question: When was the Constitution Act passed?
Answer: 1982

Question: The Constitution Act mentions the prime minister in the context of which kinds of other ministers?
Answer: federal and provincial first ministers

Question: What document details the role and abilities given to the prime minister of the Czech Republic?
Answer: constitution

Question: When was prime minister first mentioned in a government document in the UK?
Answer: first decade of the twentieth century

Question: Who was the last prime minister to serve simultaneously as Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: Balfour

Question: When did Balfour last hold the titles of prime minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Answer: 1905

Question: Which prime minister was appointed only one time?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: When was Thatcher appointed prime minister?
Answer: 1979

Question: When did Thatcher last hold power?
Answer: 1990

Question: What did Margaret Thatcher reconfigure following each general election?
Answer: cabinet

Question: What is the name of the prime ministerial position in Ireland?
Answer: Taoiseach

Question: From where is the Irish prime minister usually selected?
Answer: the political party that commands majority of seats in the lower house of parliament

Question: When is the Irish Taoiseach renominated?
Answer: after every general election

Question: Most parliamentary governments need to have the support of what governmental body?
Answer: lower house of parliament

Question: Which political division does not often utilize its power, if it has any?
Answer: upper houses

Question: What kind of referendum can the lower house of parliament take against the government?
Answer: vote of confidence

Question: Who can put a stop the parliamentary attempts at dissovling itself in some areas?
Answer: head of state

Question: If the head of state prevents the dissolution of parliament, what needs to happen?
Answer: resignation of the prime minister and his or her government

Question: In contemporary parliamentary governments, which official is usually in charge of asking parliament to dissolve?
Answer: prime minister

Question: When was the convention of prime ministers initiating the dissolution of parliament started?
Answer: 1918

Question: In Ireland, when was the power to dissolve parliament assigned to the prime minister?
Answer: 1937

Question: The 1922 Irish Free State Constitution previously gave what body the power to dissolve parliament?
Answer: the Executive Council

Question: What was the Executive Council an alternate name for?
Answer: cabinet

Question: What process signals the need for the prime minister to resign in Australia?
Answer: spill motion