Question: Which British prime minister fell from office because of his repeal of the Corn Laws?
Answer: Robert Peel

Question: Which Conservative MP was a middle-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and set eleven world records during the 1970s and 1980s?
Answer: Sebastian Coe

Question: What was the racial segregation policy practiced by South Africa's National Party until 1994?
Answer: Apartheid

Question: Which party was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945?
Answer: Nazi Party

Question: How old must you be to vote in a British parliamentary election?
Answer: 18

Question: How many readings does an act of Parliament have in the House of Commons before being given royal assent?
Answer: Three

Question: In which city did Karl Marx write Das Kapital?
Answer: London

Question: Which party did F W de Klerk represent as South African president?
Answer: National Party

Question: What is the term used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate for a forthcoming election?
Answer: Deselection

Question: Who played the part of Piers Fletcher Dervish, personal assistant to MP Alan B'stard, in the television comedy series The New Statesman?
Answer: Michael Troughton

Question: Which MP entered Parliament as a Tory in 1833, but became Liberal prime minister in 1868?
Answer: Gladstone

Question: What was the British government forced to abolish in 1991, replacing it with the council tax?
Answer: Poll tax / community charge

Question: Who was the last foreign secretary to serve in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, an MP who also contested the leadership after her resignation?
Answer: Douglas Hurd

Question: Which publication documents all proceedings of the British parliament?
Answer: Hansard

Question: What is the name for the group of opposition spokesmen who comment on the policies of government ministers?
Answer: Shadow cabinet

Question: Who was "Britain's first ever Labour prime minister in 1924?
Answer: James Ramsey MacDonald

Question: What became known s "the F-word" at the 1991 Maastricht summit, where Britain wanted it removed from the treaty?
Answer: Federalism

Question: Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour in the 1992 General Election?
Answer: Glenda Jackson

Question: Whose book Inside NO 10 described Harold Wilson's Downing Street years?
Answer: Lady Falkender

Question: What is the name of the Welsh nationalist party?
Answer: Plaid Cyumru

Question: What is the Swedish name of the official who acts for the private citizen in complaints against the government?
Answer: Ombudsman

Question: Which US president introduced the New Deal in 1933 to counter the depression?
Answer: Franklin Roosevelt

Question: Mario Soares became the first socialist president of which country in 1986?
Answer: Portugal

Question: Which policy helped Pierre Trudeau to a landslide victory in the Canadian presidential election of 1980?
Answer: Opposing Quebec separatism

Question: What is the title of the member of the upper house equivalent to that of the Speaker in the lower house?
Answer: Lord Chancellor

Question: Who was dismissed from office as Australian prime minister in 1975 after refusing to call a general election?
Answer: Gough Whitlam

Question: Which government office was held successively by Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lasson, and John Major?
Answer: Chauvinism

Question: Which word, meaning "I forbid" in Latin, means the right to prevent a law being enacted or an action being taken?
Answer: Veto

Question: What collective name is given to the first ten amendments to the US constitution?
Answer: Bill of Rights

Question: What is the collective name of the international agreements signed by all the member states of the European Community?
Answer: Treaties of Rome

Question: In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev resign as Soviet president?
Answer: 1991

Question: Which political commentator has presented both Weekend World and A Week in Politics?
Answer: Peter Jay

Question: How many countries are there in the British Commonwealth?
Answer: 50

Question: What is the Irish house of representatives called?
Answer: Dáil Éireann

Question: Who was Pope for only 33 days in 1978?
Answer: John Paul I

Question: Who was lead singer with the group Queen?
Answer: Freddie Mercury

Question: Which author had the real name Charles Dodgson?
Answer: Lewis Carroll

Question: Who led the Free French forces during World War II?
Answer: Charles de Gaulle

Question: Which battle of 1876 was Custer's last stand?
Answer: Little Bighorn

Question: Which actor, comedian and singer was born David Daniel Kaminski?
Answer: Danny Kaye

Question: What nationality was the spy Mata Hari?
Answer: Dutch

Question: Who said: "The customer is always right"?
Answer: Harry Gordon Selfridge

Question: What pen name was used by the Spanish orator Dolores Ibarruri, who said "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"?
Answer: La Pasionaria

Question: For what purpose did Melvil Dewey devise his decimal system in 1876?
Answer: Classifying books

Question: Who was the king of rock and roll?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: Who was Sherlock Holmes' assistant?
Answer: Dr. Watson

Question: What are the indigenous people of new Zealand called?
Answer: Maoris

Question: Who was the film star who married Prince Rainier III of Monaco?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: What was the first name of the politician Gladstone, the composer Walton, and the reformer Wilberforce?
Answer: William

Question: Of which tribe was Goliath the champion?
Answer: Philistines

Question: What nickname was given to General Thomas Jackson because of his stern defense at the battle of Bull Run?
Answer: Stonewall

Question: Which Christian martyr was first bishop of Rome?
Answer: St. Peter

Question: Who was the most famous of English lexicographers?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: In which of the arts has Richard Avedon distinguished himself?
Answer: Photography

Question: Which religious grou0p migrated westward to the Great Salt Lake, Utah, in 1847?
Answer: Mormons

Question: Which 18th-century dictionary compiler defined himself as a "harmless drudge"?
Answer: Samuel Johnson

Question: Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: What was the name of the Thracian slave who led an ultimately unsuccessful gladiator revolt against Rome in 73 BC?
Answer: Spartacus

Question: Which English king abdicated and became Duke of Windsor?
Answer: Edward VIII

Question: Who was the first man in space in 1961?
Answer: Yuri Gagarin

Question: What invention made the fortune of Alfred Noel, founder of the Nobel prize?
Answer: Dynamite

Question: Whose circus did General Tom Thumb join at the age of five in 1843?
Answer: P T Barnum

Question: Of which country was de Valera the prime minister, and later the president?
Answer: Ireland

Question: Which actress starred opposite Alan Ladd in the film "The Blue Dahlia"?
Answer: Veronica Lake

Question: Which French fashion designer created the "Little black dress"?
Answer: Coco Chanel

Question: What is the trade name for the non-stick material used for coating cooking pans?
Answer: Teflon

Question: What name is given to the brittle kind of iron used for making engine blocks and manhole covers?
Answer: Cast Iron

Question: Which scientific unit gives a measure of loudness?
Answer: Decibel

Question: The behavior of sound in rooms and concert halls is a separate science. what is its name?
Answer: Acoustics

Question: What kind of animal is an iguana?
Answer: Reptile

Question: What is the name given to the molten rock beneath the surface of the Earth?
Answer: Magma

Question: Which disease is spread in minute water drops?
Answer: Legionnaire's disease

Question: What is the strong inelastic material found in a human tendon?
Answer: Collagen

Question: What material forms the hard outermost layer of a human tooth?
Answer: Enamel

Question: Snowflakes are symmetrical. How many sides do they have?
Answer: Six