I am on an interview panel (for Thouron scholarships) throughout today and tomorrow, so I thought I would post this weekend’s quiz questions this morning. The questions are on women peers.
1. Who is the youngest female peer sitting on the Conservative benches?
2. Who is the youngest female peer sitting on the Labour benches?
3. Who is the youngest female peer sitting on the Liberal Democrat benches?
4. Last year, we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Life Peerages Act, which enabled women to enter the House as life peers. But when will we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Act that allowed women who inherited their titles to take their seats?
I want to be the first in so stab in the dark
1. Conservative benches – Baroness Warsi
2. Labour benches – Lord Alli
3. Liberal Democrat benches – Lord redesdale
4. 2013
I wanted to be first in So stab in the dark –
1.Baroness Warsi
2.Lord Alli
3.Lord redesdale
4.2013
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7832365.stm
Off-topic, but having read this I wasn’t sure if the ‘General’ Lord Ramsbotham could feasibly be the same David Ramsbotham [as was] who was Chief Inspector of Prisons ??
I missed Newsnight last night – perhaps the answer is on their web-site – but he is certainly ‘multi-talented’ if he is one and the same.
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness_Warsi (b 1971) youngest peerin the house I think, and a tory.
2013 – female HPs were allowed under the Peerage Act of 1963
1. Baroness Warsi
2. Baroness Morgan of Drefelin
3. Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury
4. 2013 (after the Peerage Act 1963)
Numbers 2 and 3 are guesses after browsing a list of peers. I didn’t go to the trouble of looking them all up to find their ages (it seems a little impolite, anyway!) and I may well have missed someone
I fear no one has yet got all four correct!
NHackett: Lords Alli and Redesdale don’t qualify as female peers!
The three of you (NHackett, Croft and Jonathan) are correct on Question 1: Baroness Warsi is the youngest female Conservative peer (and the youngest female peer). You are also correct in that 2013 will be the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Peerages Act 1963, which enabled females hereditaries to take their seats.
However, no one has yet offered correct answers to Questions 2 and 3. Any more offers?
Bedd Gelert: Lord Ramsbotham is indeed General Ramsbotham, the former Inspector of Prisons. He is an extremely active member of the House.
Dear Lord Norton,
Baroness Warsi – Conservative
Baroness Green Shoots – sorry Vadera – Labour
Baroness Barker – Liberal Democrat
2013.
Howridiculous.
3. Baroness Miller?
Or maybe Baroness Falkner…
I can’t help thinking there’s a ‘1000 things you didn’t know about Parliament’ book just waiting to be written by Lord Norton!
1: Baroness Warsi
2: Baroness Vadera
3: Baroness Barker (of course)
4: 1963
And my prize is????
Lib Dem Baroness Falkner of Margravine
Con Baroness Warsi
Labour Baroness Kingsmill
Howridiculous: Congratulations. You have all four correct.
Ameneinlondon: well done. Your prize is the the knowledge that you got all four, but howridiculous wins for posting the correct answers first.
Thanks to others for your guesses – some of them are a little off the mark! Paul: You appear to be hedging your bets. There is more than one Baroness Miller.
Certianly no prize for ameneinlondon as, tecnhically, the correct answer to number 4 is 2013 not 1963!
Good point Jonathan! That leaves howridiculous as the sole winner.
I am rather gratified that no one was able on this question to come up with a quick answer.