Quiz

Unfortunately, question 6 contained an error (see below) but this had no bearing on the final result.

1) In which general election this century did the Conservatives gain their smallest share of the vote?

October 1974
1945
1997

2) Who said, "I don't think this is landslide country"?

Tony Blair
John Major
Brian Mawhinney

3) In the campaign, which was the odd one out?

A chicken
A bulldog
A frog

4) Who directed Labour's final party election broadcast, featuring actor Peter Postlethwaite as a taxi-driver?

Stephen Frears
Molly Dineen
Hugh Hudson

5) How many general elections has Sir Edward Heath contested?

16
14
9

6) Gisela Stuart was the first Labour candidate to win a marginal seat on May 1. When did Birmingham Edgbaston last elect a Labour MP?

1922
1987
1910

We mistakenly believed that the answer was 1922 but this was wrong - a fact for which we apologise. None of the above options was correct and the question was ignored for scoring purposes.

7) On election night, to whom did the BBC's Jeremy Paxman say, "Are you ready to drink hemlock?"

Michael Forsyth
Michael Portillo
Ian Lang

8) What do Labour MPs Ann Keen and Clare Short have in common?

They have both recently been reunited with sons they gave up for adoption
They were selected from all-women shortlists
They nominated and seconded Margaret Beckett in the 1994 Labour leadership campaign

9) How many female Liberal Democrat MPs are there?

3
21
46

10) Which constituency was the first to declare its results on election night?

Sunderland North
Sunderland South
Torbay

11) Who is the youngest MP in the Commons?

Stephen Twigg, Enfield North
Claire Ward, Watford
Christopher Leslie, Shipley

12) Who resigned from Tony Blair's Government within days of Labour gaining power?

Peter Mandelson
Derek Foster
Michael Meacher

13) Which advertising agency rubbed salt in the Tories' wounds on May 2 with a poster declaring: "John. Look what happens when you change advertising agencies"?

M&C Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi
BMP DDB Needham

14) What do John Aspinall and David Bellamy have in common apart from a love of flora and fauna?

They are both defeated Green Party candidates
They are both defeated UK Independence candidates
They are both defeated Referendum Party candidates

15) The daughter of which former Conservative MP is an aspiring pop star?

Edwina Currie
Olga Maitland
Angela Rumbold

16) Mr Blair has changed Prime Minister's Questions to Wednesday. When had it taken place previously?

Monday and Thursday at 3pm
Tuesday and Thursday at 3.15pm
Monday and Thursday at 3.15pm

17) David Willetts is the campaign manager for which Tory leadership contender?

Michael Howard
Peter Lilley
William Hague

18) Which party put its headquarters on the property market for around #15m after the election?

Conservative Party
Natural Law Party
Referendum Party

19) The cover of which magazine declared, "The Conservatives deserve to lose; Labour doesn't deserve to win" the week before the election?

New Statesman
Spectator
The Economist

20) Independent MP Martin Bell's campaign was managed by his daughter, Melissa. For which news organisation did she work before the election?

BBC
ITN
Reuters