Political trivia quiz questions complete with the answers.

What is the official residence of the president of France?
A: Elysee Palace.

Who set out his political ideas in Mein Kampf?
A: Adolf Hitler.

Who preceded Ronald Reagan as American president?
A: Jimmy Carter.

In which year was Ulster incorporated into the UK, under the Home Rule Act?
A: 1920.

What name is shared by the chairs of the UK House of Commons and the US House of Representatives?
A: Speaker.

Which is the lower house of the British parliament?
A: House of Commons.

Of what electoral system are "single transferable vote" and "party list" forms?
A: Proportional representation.

Who was the USA's vice president in 1990?
A: Dan Quayle.

Which prime minister took Britain into the European Community in 1973?
A: Edward Heath.

Which publication was the vehicle for John 'Wilkes's attacks on the Tories for which he was imprisoned in 1768?
A: The North Briton.

How did the suffragette Emily Davison meet her death in 1913?
A: She threw herself under the king's horse in the Derby.

What was enforced by Parliament in 1379 and was the trigger that caused the Peasants' Revolt?
A: Poll tax.

In which country did Pol Pot lead the feared Khmer Rouge?
A: Cambodia.

How often are American presidential elections held?
A: Every four years.

Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime minister from then until 1963?
A: Ben-Gurion.

Who did Margaret Thatcher succeed as leader of the Conservative Party?
A: Edward Heath.

Who said 'A week is a long time in politics'?
A: Harold Wilson.

In which parliament has the UK 87 seats for members who are elected for a five0-year term?
A: European Parliament.

What name is given to the series of strikes in the winter of 1978-79 that led to the defeat of the Labour government?
A: Winter of Discontent.

Which Elizabethan politician, philosopher and essayist was fined L40,000 for taking bribes?
A: Frances Bacon.

Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955?
A: Hugh Gaitskell.

Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
A: Kate Millett.

Which American economist is the foremost advocate of monetarism?
A: Milton Friedman.

In what year did the Representation of the People Act give the vote to all women over 21?
A: 1928.

Who was Italy's Fascist lender from 1925-43?
A: Mussolini.

Which human-rights organization campaigns for the release of political prisoners worldwide?|
A: Amnesty International.

Which British company was effectively the ruler of much of India until the India Act of 1858?
A: East India Company.

What offence was former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega tried for in the USA?
A: Drug Trafficking.

Which are the two main political parties in the USA?
A: Democrats and Republicans.

What do the British call the person other countries might call minister of the interior?
A: Home Secretary.

Who was the youngest ever leader of the Labour Party, elected in 1983?
A: Neil Kinnock

Which party leader was a Royal Marine commando?
A: Paddy Ashdown.

Which British prime minister fell from office because of his repeal of the Corn Laws?
A: Robert Peel.

Which Conservative MP was a middle-distance runner who won two Olympic gold medals and set eleven world records during the 1970s and 1980s?
A: Sebastian Coe.

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