A previous quiz focused on peers who had been Olympic medallists. Given that the Paralympic Games are now under way – I am going tomorrow – I thought it appropriate that this quiz looks at peers who have either competed in Paralympic Games or have been involved in work for those with disabilities. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners.
1. I have served as a disability training development officer and was co-director of the National Centre for Independent Living. I have served on the Commission on Equality and Human Rights, chairing the Disability Committee. Who am I?
2. I have competed in five Paralympic Games. I am a non-executive director of UK Athletics. I hold 24 honorary degrees. I was awarded the MBE, OBE and DBE before being elevated to the peerage. Who am I?
3. I have served as a law lecturer and was until three years ago Chair of the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). I have served on the National Disability Council and the Disability Rights Commission. Who am I?
4. I served as President of the College of Occupational Therapists from 2003 to 2008. I have previously worked for MIND and the National Centre for Independent Living. I am the only one in this quiz who takes a party whip – not always obvious given that as a wheelchair-user I sit behind the clerks. Who am I?
Interestingly I have just decided to seek daisabled status in my own country. A very difficult decision..
1.Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
2.BARONESS TANNI GREY-THOMPSON
3.Colin Mackenzie Low, Baron Low of Dalston
4.Baroness Wilkins
1 – Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
2 – Baroness Grey-Thompson
3 – Lord Low of Dalston
4 – Baroness Wilkins (and she takes the Labour whip)
1. Baroness Campbell of Surbiton
2. Baroness Grey-Thompson
3. Lord Low of Dalston
4. Baroness Wilkins
When Lord Norton gets to the gates of Heaven
St Peter will set a quiz, nothing to do with parliament, or the House of Lords.
Lord Norton “Thank goodness for that St Peter or those Lotbers would catch me out, and leave me in Paradise!”
St Peter “Ok you can come in but don’t ask too many questions.There are things going on in here which are interesting.”
May I appeal to subsidiary-relevance for half a mionute ?
that the Distinctions between various sorts and levels of (i) Disabilities and of (ii) Impairments
appears not to have been yet ‘ordered’ and adequately ‘defined’ in British Law ?
[ I believe that Australia wrote a distinction into their Law, in the last century, between “Disability = Irreversible (loss of function)
whereas some impairments might prove to be Reversible,
but other impairments might later be seen to be Irreversible (in which case the latter would be re-named “disability”].
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Since some “persons with disabilities” later more than triumphantly “make the grade”
(e.g. in the Paralympics)
how should/could that ‘success’ be fitted-into the contrast between a “disability” and an “impairment”, or “whatever” ?
milesjsd: As I understand it, having previously raised the matter with ministers, disability is determined by whether or not it is condition that affects your capacity regularly to fulfil your work. That produces a notably grey area.
Whilst all in the paralympics are disabled, many are able to work and many do. They have passed the Atos test.
What we should be doing as a society isn’t giving them money just because they are disabled, but funding any apparatus the need, and removing the restrictions that prevent them from operating, such as stupid parking laws.
I was at the Paralympics on Sunday: it was amazing what the competitors achieved – remarkable feats. I agree that parking laws need reviewing.
Congratulations to Frank Wynerth Summers III and Jason Lower – this week’s winners – who both got in ahead of JH, with the correct answers. I thought it was a more difficult quiz this time round, so was especially impressed.
I could, though, have made it even more difficult, given that I am reliably informed that we have a member of the House who competed in the 1960 Paralympics, a fact not mentioned in her Dod’s entry.
Baroness Masham of Ilton (formerly Susan Cunliffe-Lister) competed that year in swimming and table tennis
Rich: Spot on – I think you deserve a medal of your own.
Lord Norton this is an entry on my Linked-In Profile under Honors and Awards.
“Lord Norton, Lords of the Blog Quiz Winner
Lords of The Blog and the UK House of Lords
September 2012
I have thrice won this quiz. Most recently just a few days before typing this and the other times many months ago. The quiz is fairly competitive in its own way. I type this before having been certified a Grand Prize Winner. But my understanding as I type this is that anyone who wins three times is a Grand Prize Winner.
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2012/09/01/quiz-3/
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2011/12/17/quiz-history-of-the-house/
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2011/12/24/our-prize-winners/
http://lordsoftheblog.net/2009/10/17/quiz-questions-7/”
I have my real reasons for seeking to make my profile as comprehensive as possible although I am perhaps not “working” any more. MY lists of jobs, courses and other things is so very long yet incomplete and the troubles I have had with being bel.ieved by coworkers and employers, customers and editors when I recount the most pedestrian parts of my experience have been so great that I am trying to put anything I might mention on Linked-In where it can be verified. That was my plan which may not be relevant much longer because as I sat this may all be winding down. My recent heart/stroke event has simply furnished an exclamation point at the end of long narrative of health problems.
I am interested to know if the set of three wins counts toward a grand prize if so I will use that as the excuse to plan a trip to the UK for the first time in almost 45 years and will claim my tea. It will not be extremely soon but sooner than later I think. I am hoping to couple the visit to Westminster Palace with a visit to the Soho Parish School where a certain Kindergartner had his first real exposure to British culture…
Frank W. Summers III: I am happy to confirm that you are indeed a Grand Prize Winner and thus eligible for tea at the House of Lords.
I’m afraid you are responsible for your own transport costs!
Lord Norton,
I am seldom very well pleased. At this moment I am very well pleased…
Thank you…