Winter is Coming
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400

This US city, famous for Mormons, hopes to host the winter games in 2030.

What is Salt Lake City?

400

He was the first Republican president.

Who is Lincoln?

400

Al Gore lost in the 2000 presidential election after a contested recount (that ended up at the Supreme Court) in this battleground state.

What is Florida?

400

This American surgeon created this, to stop people from choking.

Who is Henry Heimlich?

400

MPs get certain rights and freedoms that other people might not get. If they abuse these though, they could find themselves before this committee.

What is Priveleges?

800

This Italian city is already locked in to host the 2026 winter games.

What is Milan?

800

He was the first president to participate in a televised debate.

Who is JFK?

800

He wrote his Harvard thesis in 1969, on how this technology would impact the American presidency. Thirty years after a president first used it.

What is Television?

800

This American singer released her self-titled debut album in 2006. She wrote most of it in her first year at high school.

Who is Taylor Swift?

800

This committee received a record breaking 106,700 submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill.

What is Justice?

1200

This Spanish city previously hosted the Summer games. Now it wants to host the 2030 winter games, despite the fact it hasn’t snowed there in 12 years.

What is Barcelona?

1200

He was the first president to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Who is Teddy Roosevelt?

1200

He represented this US state in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

What is Tennessee?

1200

This New Zealand Minister of Finance has a whole type of economics named after him.

Who is Roger Douglas?

1200

This committee has the longest name by far, and it covers everything from business development and tourism, to broadcasting and communications, and even consumer protection and trading standards.

What is Economic Development, Science, and Innovation?

1600

This city is sometimes called the “Hollywood of the North”, it also has a pool three times as long as an Olympic one. It wants to host the 2030 winter games.

What is Vancouver?

1600

He was the first president to pardon a turkey. 

Who is George HW Bush?

1600

In 2007 he became the first and only Vice President to receive this award; an honour four US presidents have received.

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

1600

This British man had modern day Zambia and Zimbabwe named after him (that's not what they were called then), he also has a scholarship helping people attend Oxford.

Who is Cecil Rhodes?

1600

This committee is full of big names. It is chaired by the Prime Minister, and both the leader and deputy leader of the opposition sit on it too.

What is Intelligence and Security?

2000

This Japanese city seems a pretty good match for the winter games, it is the capital of the mountainous Hokkaido and is famous for skiing, snow festivals, and ice sculptures. It hopes to host the games in 2030.

What is Sapporo?

2000

He was the first president to be photographed.

Who is John Quincy Adams?

2000

Al Gore joined this major tech company’s board in 2003.

What is Apple?

2000

This president renamed the presidential retreat to Camp David, saying that Shangri-La (its original name) was "just a little fancy for a Kansas farm boy." David was his Grandson's and his Father's name.

Who is Dwight Eisenhower?

2000

This committee is chaired by the speaker, and alongside choosing when Parliament sits, it gets to choose which MPs serve on which committees.

What is Business?

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