Prime Ministers
A member of the Whig party, who for more than twenty years dominated the government as First Lord of the Treasury, widely considered the de facto first Prime Minister.
Who is Robert Walpole?
The number of yards in a mile.
What is 1760?
The amount of queens that can be present on a chess board without any of them being in a position to take each other.
What is eight?
This small hairy green fruit is known by the nickname goosegogs.
What are gooseberries?
Steven Spielberg directed this 2016 film which was based upon a book by Roald Dahl.
What is the BFG?
He became first man to serve as Deputy Prime Minister during WW2 and afterwards won a landslide victory in the next general election.
Who is Clement Attlee?
The SI unit for temperature, named for the title of William Thomson, it received a new definition in late 2018.
What is Kelvin?
According to Gauss this field was "The Queen of Sciences".
What is Mathematics?
Miles Kington once said that "Knowledge is knowing this is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad".
What is a tomato?
An awful 2017 movie that was based on a long running tv franchise with multi coloured heroes.
What is Power Rangers?
This Prime Minister is known for his rivalry with Disraeli and serving four non-consecutive terms.
Who is William Gladstone?
The volume of water that weighs one kilogram.
What is a litre?
In the card game Hearts the queen of this suit is the highest scoring card.
What is Spades?
The fruit which when fermented and distilled yields Calvados.
What is an apple?
The name of a 1959 period epic starring Charlton Heston, at the time the second highest grossng film of all time, and its less successful 2016 remake.
What is Ben-Hur?
The first Labour Prime Minister, later he was expelled from the party for the formation of a National Government in the wake of the Great Depression.
Who is Ramsay MacDonald?
Until the 20th of May this year this unit of measurement is defined by a metal cylinder in Paris.
What is the Kilogram?
The unneutered female of this domestic animal is called a queen.
What is a cat?
A fruit, which despite being originally from China, is named after the nickname for the peoples of an island nation.
What are kiwis?
Based on the thousand page work by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, this space opera flopped in the year 2000.
What is Battlefield Earth?
The first man to officially hold the title of Prime Minister and the only man to be simultaneously Father of the House and PM.
Who is Henry Campbell-Bannerman?
The current discrepancy between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. (You can have one day either way).
What is 13?
This American vaudeville act had the Queen Albums "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races" named after their films.
Who are the Marx Brothers?
According to Greek myth Persephone had to spend six months of the year in the underworld after eating this fruit.
What is pomegranate?
This fictional German Noble, who has a psychiatric diagnosis named for him, had a 1988 Terry Gilliam film based on his implausible adventures.
Who is Baron Munchhausen?