“… will you choose me as your proxy?”

I’m not sure the prizes are transferable, and in any case I have no doubt you can win it without any help.

Jana

I think you should make a special journey, rather than let Lord Norton get away with such tricky brain teasers.

I got Lord Craigavon straight away, but the others left me stuck as to where to find the info, or in three cases how to remember what I have known for so long, that I had forgotten.

I say! The HofL must be like that; you are reborn (in to a second childhood?) and you have forgotten everything you ever knew. That is why noble peers use the expression “In a former incarnation!”

Interesting how many have got Danneborg Orders.

What do ‘disenfranchised’/'disbarred’ young peers do about their title these days? Just call themselves Mr. Jones, and leave the nomenclature ‘Lord’ to septa/octo members and non-democratic cabinet ministers?

I know what Jana, will you choose me as your proxy? I am so mean that a coffee and a biscuit in the Tea Room would go a long way!

2) Lord Baker of Dorking

3) Baroness Darcy de Knayth; Lord Morris of Manchester

4) Lord Mance

2) Lord Baker of Dorking

3) Baroness Darcy de Knayth; Lord Morris of Manchester

4) Lord Mance…

Jana: Thanks for letting me know. You are not our only overseas grand prize-winner. I am delighted that we have such an international audience.

As to the quiz, it was clearly a challenging one. The answers are:

1. Lord Laird. He is way ahead of everyone else in the House in terms of the number of questions he tables.

2. Lord Baker of Dorking.

3. Any two of Lord Ashley of Stoke, Baroness Masham of Ilton, and Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior.

4. Lord Mance, married to Lady Justice Arden.

5. Baroness Hogg (or, as Chris K. notes, Viscountess Hogg), married to Douglas Hogg MP (Viscount Hailsham), and Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, married to Peter Bottomley MP. The question related solely to Baronesses on the Conservative benches.

6. Lord Craigavon.

Questions 3 and 6 were clearly the ones that foxed most contestants. As a result, we have one prize-winner only this week. Congratulations to Michael, who answered all the questions correctly.

2) Lord Baker of Dorking

3) Baroness Darcy de Knayth; Lord Morris of Manchester

4) Lord Mance

5) Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone; Viscountess Hailsham (Baroness Hogg);

6) Viscount Craigavon

1. Lord Laird

2. Baron Baker of Dorking

3. Baroness Masham of Ilton in the middle I think & I am guessing that one of the men is Viscount Ingleby who died in 2008

4. Lord Mance is married to Lady Justice Arden

5. Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Peter Bottomley); Viscountess Hailsham, The Baroness Hogg; (Viscount Hailsham, Douglas Hogg); Baroness Maddock (Sir Alan Beith); Baroness Paisley of St George’s (Ian Paisley) – I hope that’s all

6. Viscount Craigavon

Lord Norton:
Thank you for the invitation to tea as a winner of three quizzes. Unfortunately, although I would very much like to meet you, I am rather farther away than my email address indicates, and for this reason it will not be possible for me to take it up.

Jana

2. Lord Baker of Dorking

3. Lord Ashley of Stoke and Baroness Masham of Ilton

4. Lord Mance

5. Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone and Baroness Hogg

6. Viscount Craigavon

1. Lord Laird
2. Lord Baker of Dorking
3. Baroness Masham of Ilton,
4. Lord Mance
5. Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, Baroness Hogg
6. Viscount Craigavon

One answer is missing for Q3 and I’m also uncertain about one or two of the others. I’ll keep looking until the answers are announced!