Political Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What was the racial segregation policy practiced by South
Africa's National Party until 1994?
A: Apartheid.
Which party was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945?
A: Nazi Party.
How old must you be to vote in a British parliamentary election?
A: 18.
How many readings does an act of Parliament have in the House of
Commons before being given royal assent?
A: Three.
Where would you find the best political trivia quiz questions with answers?
A: Trivia Country!
In which city did Karl Marx write Das Kapital?
A: London.
What was the former name of the British Green Party?
A: Ecology Party.
Which party did F W de Klerk represent as South African president?
A: National Party.
What is the term used when a sitting MP is removed as the candidate
for a forthcoming election?
A: Deselection.
Who played the part of Piers Fletcher Dervish, personal assistant to
MP Alan B'stard, in the television comedy series The New Statesman?
A: Michael Troughton.
Which MP entered Parliament as a Tory in 1833, but became Liberal
prime minister in 1868?
A: Gladstone.
What was the British government forced to abolish in 1991, replacing
it with the council tax?
A: Poll tax / community charge.
Who was the last foreign secretary to serve in Margaret Thatcher's
cabinet, an MP who also contested the leadership after her resignation?
A: Douglas Hurd.
Which publication documents all proceedings of the British
parliament?
A: Hansard.
Which British minister of health inaugurated the National Health
Service?
A: Aneurin Bevan.
Who were the two prime ministers of Britain during World War II?
A: Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
What is the name for the group of opposition spokesmen who comment on
the policies of government ministers?
A: Shadow cabinet.
Who was "Britain's first ever Labour prime minister in 1924?
A: James Ramsey MacDonald.
Which politician has been referred to as "Red Ken"?
A: Ken Livingstone.
What became known s "the F-word" at the 1991 Maastricht summit, where
Britain wanted it removed from the treaty?
A: Federalism.
Which British actress won the Hampstead and Highgate seat for Labour
in the 1992 General Election?
A: Glenda Jackson.
Whose book Inside NO 10 described Harold Wilson's Downing Street
years?
A: Lady Falkender.
What is the name of the Welsh nationalist party?
A: Plaid Cyumru.
What is the Swedish name of the official who acts for the private
citizen in complaints against the government?
A: Ombudsman.
Which US president introduced the New Deal in 1933 to counter the
depression?
A: Franklin Roosevelt.
Mario Soares became the first socialist president of which country in
1986?
A: Portugal.
Which policy helped Pierre Trudeau to a landslide victory in the
Canadian presidential election of 1980?
A: Opposing Quebec separatism.
What is the title of the member of the upper house equivalent to that
of the Speaker in the lower house?
A: Lord Chancellor.
Who was the first president of France's Fifth Republic?
A: Charles de Gaulle.
Who was dismissed from office as Australian prime minister in 1975
after refusing to call a general election?
A: Gough Whitlam.
Which government office was held successively by Geoffrey Howe, Nigel
Lasson, and John Major?
A: Chauvinism.
What is the more common name of the "simple plurality" system of
voting?
A: First past the post.
Which word, meaning "I forbid" in Latin, means the right to prevent a
law being enacted or an action being taken?
A: Veto.
What collective name is given to the first ten amendments to the US
constitution?
A: Bill of Rights.
What is the collective name of the international agreements signed by
all the member states of the European Community?
A: Treaties of Rome.
In which year did Mikhail Gorbachev resign as Soviet president?
A: 1991.
Which political commentator has presented both Weekend World and A
Week in Politics?
A: Peter Jay.
How many countries are there in the British Commonwealth?
A: 50.
What is the Irish house of representatives called?
A: Dail eireann / the Dail.
What word for unthinking patriotism is derived from the name of one
of Napoleon's admirers?
A: Chauvinism.
