White Room Quiz Mon 01 July 2024 - Election Edition

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Today`s WRQ is the Election Edition with 8 "Election"-based questions .

[Don`t worry if you`re not into politics, the questions are general knowledge]

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo  - their answers between 12 noon today [Mon] and

03.00am Wednesday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @gmarkj @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny [ @jonsie is away; @Dave-O2 is on leave]

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and any new members will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 HISTORY - Michael Portillo famously lost his seat at the General Election - in which year ?

Q2 PEOPLE - David "Screaming Lord" Sutch first stood in an election at Stratford-upon-Avon by-election

                       in 1963 as the candidate for which political party ?

Q3 PLACES - Margaret Thatcher was first elected as an MP in 1959 General Election in which constituency ?

Q4 NATURE - Larry the cat first moved into No 10 Downing Street as "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office"

                          in Feb 2011, after who won the 2010 General Election and became PM ?

Q5 LITERATURE - "More Than A Game - The Story of Cricket`s Early Years", first published in 2007, was

                                 written by which former PM who lost the 1997 General Election ?

Q6 WORDS - In the lead up to a General Election political parties publish their manifesto.

                        Use of the word "manifesto" was first recorded in England in 1620; derived from the Latin

                         "manifestum" which meant what ?

Q7 MUSIC - In 1997 General Election, the Labour Party campaign song was "Things Can Only Get Better"

                     - by which group ?

Q8 SPORT - Which former athlete, who won medals at 1980 and 1984 Olympics, was elected as MP for

                       Falmouth and Camborne in the 1992 General Election ?

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 01 July 2024] and before 03.00am Wed 03 July 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Wed 03 July 2024.

Each member will be awarded  for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Mon 01 July

2024] and before 03.00am on Wed 03 July 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Wed 03 July 2024 will be declared void.

No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

New members, who have recently joined the Community, and members who have not taken part before, are welcome to join the "regulars" with this week`s quiz. 

Please feel free to post any comments on the questions - but not the answers - on this thread.

If you have any questions about the quiz, please ask and I will reply here.

I hope everyone likes the questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and finds this WRQ fun.

Good luck, everyone.

[Oxonian]

Cracking quiz @Mi-Amigo, very enjoyable and well done to all. 👍

Am I correct in thinking that Screaming Lord Sutch had a pirate radio connection in the 1960s ?   

[RunrigForever]

Just picked up this thread @Mi-Amigo 

I did know the cricket question was former Conservative PM John Major ..... Much better Prime Minister than he's given credit for imhho (humble / honest) ..... his book was going to be called something like the men / women in grey = he meant the All Powerful Civil Servants who don't change their jobs at General Election time ... & ... who don't court publicity.  

Thank you @Cleoriff for the little vid of Larry the Cat at Number 10 Downing Street .......  I deliberately spoilt my Postal Vote Ballot Paper ..... = ..... Larry the Cat at Number 10 Downing Street for Our Leader ... = ... Why Not ? ! ....... Larry famously doesn't get along with Palmeston the cat at the Foreign Office = they fight ! ........... there are a string of offices at the back of Downing Street xx

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Oxonian wrote:

Cracking quiz @Mi-Amigo, very enjoyable and well done to all. 👍

Am I correct in thinking that Screaming Lord Sutch had a pirate radio connection in the 1960s ?   

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Thank you @Oxonian 

Pleased you found the quiz "cracking".

As for David Sutch and pirate radio

- yes he started Radio Sutch from a small boat "Cornucopia" but as crew got seasick moved on to former military tower in Thames Estauary from where he ran Radio Sutch - pirate radio music station, with very naughty night-time readings of Lady Chatterley`s Lover. Sutch later sold the station to his manager who renamed it Radio City.

[Oxonian]

Thank you for explaining that @Mi-Amigo. 👍

I noted that today is sixty years to the day since the inaugural broadcast of Radio Caroline North - the "MV Caroline" if I remember correctly ?   

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Oxonian wrote:

I noted that today is sixty years to the day since the inaugural broadcast of Radio Caroline North - the "MV Caroline" if I remember correctly ?   

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Thanks @Oxonian 

Yes you are right. 

To explain...

Radio Caroline began broadcasting from mv Caroline on 28 March 1964 off coast of Harwich.

Radio Atlanta began broadcasting from mv Mi-Amigo on 07 Apr 1964 off coast of Felixstowe.

The two stations merged on 02 July 1964.

On 03 July 1964 mv Caroline upped anchor and sailed round the southern coast of England and up to the

Isle of Man, broadcasting as Radio Caroline [not Radio Caroline North] as she went.

On 06 July 1964 mv Caroline dropped anchor in Ramsey Bay.

On 07 July 1964 mv Caroline began broadcasting as Radio Caroline North.

[Oxonian]

That's very informative @Mi-Amigo ; there seems to be plenty of curiosity in the Radio Caroline story ! 

I find it fascinating. 👍