This week’s quiz is again a straightforward one, asking readers to identify particular members of the House. It will be interesting to see if participants can produce answers as quickly as they did last week. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners.
1. I am a former President of the National Union of Students and have served as Chief Executive of the Refugee Council. Who am I?
2. I have served simultaneously in more than one elected body and my title is the name of the constituency I first represented in one of those bodies. Who am I?
3. I have long experience in the trade union movement and have been Deputy General Secretary of the National Communications Union as well as more recently serving on the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Who am I?
4. What have the foregoing three peers got in common?
Sherlock
Bannside (almost went wrong here as his wife represented St George’s)
Drake
They were introduced together.
1. Baroness Sherlock
2. Lord Bannside
3. Baroness Drake
4. They have all become members since the general election.
1) The new peer, Baroness Sherlock
2) Ian Paisley, now Lord Ban.
3) Lord Young of Norwood Green
4) They’re all unionists of some sort.
1) Lady Sherlock OBE
2) Lord Bannside
3) Lady Drake
4) Ennobled by the 2010 dissolution honours list.
1. Baroness Sherlock
2. Lord Bannside
3. Baroness Drake
4. All three peers were introduced into the House of Lords last Monday.
4. None of them turned up to the group you attended last week !
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Carl.H: True, though this doesn’t set them apart from other parliamentarians! And you have to be a reader of ‘The Norton View’ to understand the reference.
Do you infer some people DO NOT read the Norton View ? !!!
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1. Maeve Sherlock: Baroness Sherlock, of Durham
2. Hilary Armstrong: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, of Crook
3. Jeannie Drake: Baroness Drake, of Shene
4. They’re all new peers – they were all raised in 2010. They’re also all women.
1. Baroness Sherlock
2. Lord Bannside
3. Baroness Drake
4. They were all introduced on 5 July 2010
This week’s quiz seems to have been a little more challenging than last week’s. The answers are:
1. Baroness Sherlock (Maeve Sherlock OBE)
2. Lord Bannside (Ian Paisley, who has served in the Northern Ireland Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, European Parliament, and House of Commons; he represented Bannside in the Northern Ireland Assembly 1970-72).
3. Baroness Drake (Jean Drake CBE).
4. What distinguishes all three from other parliamentarians is that they were introduced into the House of Lords on the same day (5 July).
This week’s winners are thus Croft and Michael. Congratulations to them.
Which Lord was named in the press today, for having yet another dodgy house purchase?
Which MP was so drunk on subsidised booze (Diamond White at the bar?) that they couldn’t vote on the finance bill?
Lord Blagger: I don’t think you can generalise about politicians based on just one becoming drunk prior to a vote. After all, the MP in question was quite Reckless.
There is (I have) a problem with the whole encylclopaedic Matter of learning, education, training, knowledge, expertise and democratic-ability (and of the ’empowerment’ that should be following knowledge-and-ability rather than preceding it).
Under a dual-curriculum of All-Round Education and Specialist Training the Quiz has extensive potential.
In the preface and introduction to “The Centering Book: awareness activities for children, parents and teachers” Hendricks & Wills remind us that the development of cognitive, rational and intellectual processes depends upon the concurrent development of affective, intuitive and creative processes in the student/person. “Schools shold emphasise processes instead of facts”.
“Schools should teach meaningful skills. One way of determining if a skill is meaningful is to determine the number of bad things that can happen to you if you do not have a skill.
Another way is to determine the amount of joy a skill can bring.
One of the most meaningful skills is the process of psychological integration that we call centering, which helps people develop a pool of inner stillness that facilitates appropriate action.
To be centered is to have the intellect and the intuition working in harmony.”
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An instance of neglecting that All-Roundness is evident in Religion, as well as in the Sciences: for example in the Christian religion the Seven Sacraments are taught, practised and administered as if they are external to the individual-person; whereas they are primarily increated by The Creator (‘God’) in each individual person, and they develop in sequence each sacramental-energy needing to attain and maintain balance between its inward-looking and outward-looking energy, between over-energising and under-energising, and between every pair and combination of these seven energy-centres.
If that is as true today as it was before Jesus Christ came to Earth and more certainly since then, then every Christian sect should be educating each individual person ‘into’ these innate seven sacraments i.e. as Foundation Education prior to and precedently above Teaching (pedagogically)about them.
My lords, it is necessary to have opened this above Matter here in order to acknowledge how the Quiz-form can be useful not only in Facts memorisation but in Processes enabling.
Facts quizzes are of the Closed-question type. answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, ‘Right’ or ‘Wrong’.
Processes quizzes can use a dominance of Open-questions, ‘Why does Black Rod do what he does ?’ ‘How should a citizen submit their essential Needs, Hows, and Affordable-Costs to Government ? and how should Government respond ?’
(Each answer in no more than fifty words please);
which couldsurely be much more engaging for the respondent and more edifying or entertaining for both the Listeners and the Lords than can be the standard ‘Black’ or ‘White’ closed-question format.
(needing to be continued)
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