The House of Lords has among its membership several distinguished surgeons as well as a good number of eminent lawyers. This week’s quiz focuses on peers who are drawn from medicine and the law. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. I combined being a surgeon…
As Lord Soley asked who was the Prime Minister who was not British-born, I thought I would stick with the theme for this week’s quiz and ask about Prime Ministers in relation to the House of Lords. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners, though feel free…
Congratulations to Ulysses and Dave H who were the winners of the last quiz. I have been somewhat delayed in posting the latest quiz (for the reasons see here), but here it is. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. Name three current members of the…
Congratulations to Chris K. and Jonathan who were the winners of the previous quiz. They got in ahead of maria_ivokermartin and emmy to identify three or more peers who had presented their own television programmes, three or more who had published novels, and three or more who had sat in the House of Commons as Liberal…
The quiz is back. I thought I would modify the format slightly, with a fortnightly quiz. As before, any reader winning three times will be invited to tea at the Lords. If an overseas winner wins it three times, and cannot make it to the Lords, I will arrange for some memento of the Lords…
