Some more questions to be answered!

First of all, thanks to all that answered the questions. It's nice to see that a few of them provoked a few discussions!

So, in the spirit of fun, here's a few more from the quiz, which had me searching over the internet to try and find the answers.

1. In which year did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister for the last time? 2. Which year saw the end of bread rationing in Great Britain? 3. Who was the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain? 4. How many dominoes are there in a set? 5. For which count cricket club did Julius Caesar play? 6. Which great diarist lived at Weston Longville? 7. What is unusual about the Gloucestershire Regiment's cap? 8. In which country is the source of the world's second longest river? 9 What is the stage name of Robert Davies? 10.Who was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a Test Match? 11.Who was the second man to break the 4 minute mile? 12.Who stated that 'Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? 13.Whose address was No. 1 London? 14.Which golf course is the original home of the Open? 15.Which of Napoleon's marshals became King of Sweden?

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FR Spofforth in 1879

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Followup Puzzle: Where did orwell get the title for his book '1984'? Where did Orwell write 1984?

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Surrey. Worth a note is this game: Eleven Gentlemen of Godalming and District vs. Twelve Caesars http://www.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/1850S/ 1850/ENG_LOCAL/...

Spofforth, Aus v. Eng, Melbourne 1878/79

John Landy

No-one. 'Power tends to corrupt...' John Emerich, Lord Acton

The Royal and Ancient?

He lost the election in 1945. I don't know the last time he won. How often do the British elect Prime Ministers?

Is that a double-6 set or a double-9 set?

The only famous English diarist I know of is Samual Pepys (sp?).

I've always heard it attributed to Lord Acton.

He reversed the last two digits of the year; i.e. he wrote it in 1948.

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He was reelected in the mid-to-late 50s, but I forget which year.

There's no set period for British elections. The tradition is that the PM must call one before the end of his fifth year in

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Glenn Rhoads:

They don't. They elect Members of Parliament. The prime minister is nominated by the monarch and Parliament ratifies ('vote confidence in' her choice. Of course, the nomination is a formality, because the only person whose nomination Parliament would ratify would be the leader of the party able to command a majority of votes.

The PM doesn't even have to be an MP, although a PM who was not an MP would be expected to try to become one at the earliest opportunity. This could happen if the party leadership changed between elections or if one party won a majority in the general election but its leader did not win his/her own seat. In Canada, where we have the same system, the former case happened in 1984 when Pierre Trudeau retired as PM and the party chose John Turner, who was not an MP, to replace him. Turner promptly called a general election and did win a seat for himself, but his party was defeated and he in turn resigned as leader afterwards.

Dan Tilque:

The 5-year period runs from the last general election; a change of PM doesn't affect it. In Canada essentially the same rule is a consti- tutional requirement, and I thought it was in Britain too (although the term doesn't have exactly the same meaning as in Canada or the US).

1951. He served to 1955, when he retired due to ill health.

Thats not tradition, its compulsory under the Paliament Act, barring emergency powers (such as that which maintained the 1939-45 parliament.

I've seen up to double-15. And for a double-n set, it's always going to be n(n+1)/2

Bacon was also a diarist, IIRC.

I liked Kissinger's, about power corrupting, and absolute power being really neat... (yes, that is a paraphrase...)

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Ted Schuerzinger:

Editorializing aside, this is correct. I said 'afterwards' because that was also correct and I didn't want to bother looking it up.