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…
This week the quiz is a straightforward one to identify particular members of the House of Lords. As this blog has variously noted, the House is notable for the range of its membership. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. The House of Lords has just…
A number of peers have said things which have entered the dictionaries of quotations. Baroness Thatcher is an especially good example, primarily when she was Prime Minister (‘You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning’, ‘There is no such thing as society’, ‘No, No, No’). This week’s quiz tests your knowledge of what…
This week’s quiz relates to popular culture. There are some leading figures in the arts and entertainment who sit in the House of Lords, including Melvyn Bragg (Lord Bragg) and Andrew Lloyd-Webber (Lord Lloyd-Webber). Melvyn Bragg once hosted an episode of the South Bank Show in which he interviewed the crime writer Ruth Rendell and…
Like last week’s, this week’s quiz relates to the membership of the House. As usual the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. Why will there shortly be the potential for sibling rivalry in the House of Lords? 2. The chairs of the departmental select committees in the House of…
