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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.

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.

 

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