Election Day Quiz

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Bored with the Election?  Here are pictures of all the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom from 1782 to the present day. They are not in date or alphabetical order.  OK! So you can look them up in Wiki, but  can you match the faces to the names?

Thank you for participating – especially Papaguinea and Tocino. My apologies to those who could not load pictures.

64 thoughts on “Election Day Quiz”

  2. Jaime I reckon he’d do a far better job than any of the lot standing at the moment!

  3. Let’s start with
    1 Atlee 5 Thatcher 17 Major 22 Macmillan 25 Blair 30 Callaghan 29 Disraeli 35 Heath 40 Eden

  6. Janus
    1. Clement Atlee (1945-1951).
    5. Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990).
    17. John Major (1990-1997).
    25. Tony Blair (1997-2007).
    30. James Callaghan (1976-1979).
    35. Edward Heath (1970-1974).

  8. Slow Down Janus! I can’t keep up and I’d like some left for other people!! 🙂

  10. Miss, ‘scuse me Miss, I do know some, but only they’re the ones Swotty, I mean Janus has said already.

    Can I still get points Miss?

    Oh, Miiiiisss! Miss – it’s not fair. (SOB)

  12. Nym, I’m already on the naughty step. You may borrow my new pencil sharpener though. o)

  13. You can have second prize Pseu – and a tissue! 🙂

    Janus Well done!

  14. No you’re not Janus! I had a feeling that you were going to go through the lot!

  16. Pseu One could hardly miss Maggie… and not just because she’s the only female there. 🙂

  18. Sorry about that Jan – is it your connection? Your computer can’t be as slow as Bearsy’s…

  24. Oh poo. Can’t see any pics at all. Bwahhh. Yes Boadicea – awful connection. Not enough bandwidth for anything much. Never mind. Later.

  25. Papaguinea
    18. Harold Wilson (1964-1970, 1974-1976).
    28. Benjamin Disraeli (1868-1868, 1874-1880).
    4. Gordon Brown (2007-).
    21. Arthur Balfour (1902-1905).
    40. Harold MacMillan (1957-1963).

  28. 34 = Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assasinated. There is a picture of him in today’s Telegraph on page 12. The carved mahogany chair into which Perceval collapsed, is to be sold at a London antiques fair next month. The prime minister was shot by John Bellingham, a failed merchant, in the lobby of the old House of Commons on May 11 1812. Bellingham felt that the government had not compensated him properly for money he had lost doing business in Russia! The chair is advertised as a “trophy piece” and “not for somebody who just wants to pull a chair up at their desk”.

  29. I’m really sorry – do you manage to download the smaller quizzes with only 10 picture? I won’t put so many up again – I wasn’t actually sure that the slideshow would handle 40 – so it was a bit of an experiment. 😦

  30. Papaguinea
    34. Spencer Percival (1809-1812).

    How interesting – Perhaps Bellingham will become a bit of a hero like Guy Fawkes!

  31. Boa – you don’t appear to have credited Janus for putting up Churchill against number 7. Surely it is Churchill? Either that or a young Paul Gascoigne. I will offer Lord Salisbury as number 29 which surely makes Gladstone number 37?

  32. boadicea :

    Papaguinea
    34. Spencer Percival (1809-1812).

    How interesting – Perhaps Bellingham will become a bit of a hero like Guy Fawkes!

    Anyone might be a hero to cause the demise of our beloved Gordon.

  33. Papaguinea
    29. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil Marquess of Salisbury (1886-1892, 1895-1902).
    37. William Gladstone (1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1892-1894) – Papaguinea.

    I’m not sure too many people would limit themselves to just the demise of Gordon, I suspect there are a few others they would like to see the end of… 😉

  42. Tocino
    7. Archibald Primrose Earl of Rosebery (1894-1895).
    Fancy giving the poor boy ‘Primrose’ for a name 🙂

  48. Back on the trail – Andrew Bonar Law is number 11 and I think Earl Grey (Charles Grey) is 33. And a wild guess at 31 being Sir Robert Peel.

  50. papaguinea :

    Aha! Winston Churchill aged 4 is number 14, painted by Ayron P Ward. (A little research udnertaken here!)

    As in Wiki?

  52. Can I go for the Pitts as a reverse forecast (much as in a dog race). So numbers 26 and 12. I think 26 is the younger. My guess for 23 is the Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham and for certain 27 is Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman whose mug shot looks like a well used golf ball. (I’m off now to cast my vote in the real world.) Boa – I am still chuffed to get Churchill in first.

  53. Papaguinea
    11. Andrew Bonar Law (1922-1923.
    33. Charles Grey Earl Grey (1830-1834.
    16. George Canning (1827-1827.
    36. John Russell Earl Russell (1846-1852, 1865-1866).
    26. William Pitt the Younger (1783-1801, 1804-1806).
    27. Henry Campbell Bannerman (1905-1908).
    20. Herbert Henry Asquith (1908-1916).

  56. 19 – Sir Robert Peel; 12 – The Lord Grenville; 23 – The Earl of Shelburne; 3 – Lord Liverpool. With only a minute to go to end of polling. But never quite made it! Huge fun though.

  60. Papaguinea
    19. Robert Peel (1834-1835, 1841-1846).
    12. William Wyndham Grenville Lord Grenville (1806-1807).
    23. William Petty Earl of Shelbourne (1782-1783.
    15. George Hamilton-Gordon Earl of Aberdeem (1852-1855).
    32. Neville Chamberlain (1937-1940).

    The Chamberlain picture is delightful isn’t it?

  61. Tocino
    31. Edward Smith-Stanley Earl of Derby (1852-1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868).

  63. lets wrap it up … the Duke of Portland number 6 and Henry Addington number 9. Off to bed btu set the alarm for 2 a.m. to get a clear picture of the main result!

  64. Papaguinea
    39. Stanley Baldwin (1923-1924, 1935-1937).
    6. William Cavendish Bentinck Duke of Portland (1783-1783, 1807-1809).
    9. Henry Addington (1801-1804).

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