For this week’s quiz, have a look at The Work of the House of Lords 2007-08. The front cover has four pictures, three of them showing a front bencher speaking. This week’s questions are:
1. In the picture on the left, who is the minister at the dispatch box?
2. In the third picture, who is the peer speaking from the Opposition front bench?
3. In the fourth picture, who is the peer speaking from the Liberal Democrat front bench?
As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners.
1. Lord Davies of Abersoch
2. Lord Howell of Guildford
3. Lord Smith of Clifton
A very tough quiz this week that should at least keep certain people from complaining about the ease of Googling the answers!
Hopefully you’ll also have a good laugh at how wrong everyone’s answers are, with suggestions of people who look nothing like those in the photos.
But where’s the crossbench question? You could ask, “Who’s the lady in the pink coat and blue scarf?”
Jonathan: You rather anticipated one of the questions I had in mind for next week!
1) Lord Malloch Brown, I would guess.
2) Perhaps Lord Henley?
3) The best my research comes up with is Lord Smith of Clifton, but I’m not at all certain.
1) Lord McKenzie of Luton
2) Lord Howell of Guildford
3) Lord Lee of Trafford
1 Lord Rooker (was a minister for DEFRA)
2Lord Howell of Guilford (Shadow FCO Minister)
3 Lord Redesdale Lib Dem Spokesman on DEFRA issues
I’ll sit this one out, I’m no good at pictures of faces.
Congratulations to tory boy. He is this week’s winner. The pictures do indeed show Lord Rooker speaking from the Government Front Bench, Lord Howell of Guildford speaking from the Opposition Front Bench, and Lord Redesdale speaking from the Liberal Democrat front bench.
I was interested to read the other answers. Lord Howell appears to be the most easily recognisable of the three. Lord Smith of Clifton may be comforted by the fact that he is confused with his much younger colleague! I was thinking of making the point that front-benchers in the Lords don’t have a high visibility, so it is not surprising that readers are not always able to identify their pictures. However, it strikes me I could probably make a similar point about front-benchers in the Commons.
Perhaps it’s a function of the length of service in the house that you can easily find a photo that is decades out of date and be thrown off the scent!
Croft: Perhaps I should do a question on which member of the House has used the same photograph for the longest period of time! There may be some competition.