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HE MADE HIS MARK AS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN 1956 WHEN HE ATTACKED EGYPT OVER THE SUEZ CANAL
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QUEEN VICTORIA REPORTEDLY REFERRED TO THIS PRIME MINISTER AS "THAT DREADFUL OLD MAN"
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BRITISH P.M.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| HE MADE HIS MARK AS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN 1956 WHEN HE ATTACKED EGYPT OVER THE SUEZ CANAL | SIR ANTHONY EDEN |
| QUEEN VICTORIA REPORTEDLY REFERRED TO THIS PRIME MINISTER AS "THAT DREADFUL OLD MAN" | WILLIAM GLADSTONE |
| GLADSTONE POETICALLY SAID, "ALL THE WORLD OVER, I WILL BACK..." THESE "AGAINST THE CLASSES" | THE MASSES |
| SOME SPECULATED THAT THE MAD HATTER WAS ILLUSTRATED TO RESEMBLE THIS PRIME MINISTER | WILLIAM GLADSTONE |
| IN 1886 PM GLADSTONE SUFFERED DEFEAT WHEN HE TRIED TO GET HOME RULE FOR THIS ISLAND | IRELAND |
| THE LIBERAL PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN IN 1871 | GLADSTONE |
| IN AN 1880 LETTER, QUEEN VICTORIA REFERRED TO THIS SUCCESSOR OF DISRAELI AS A "HALF-MAD FIRE BRAND" | GLADSTONE |
| BETWEEN 1868-1894, BENJAMIN DISRAELI WAS P.M. OF ENGLAND TWICE AND THIS MAN WAS P.M. 4 TIMES | WILLIAM GLADSTONE |
| IN A 1940 EULOGY OF THIS MAN, CHURCHILL SPOKE OF HIS "LOVE OF PEACE...TOIL FOR PEACE...STRIFE FOR PEACE" | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| ONE OF THE 2 PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN DURING WWI | DAVID LLOYD GEORGE & HERBERT ASQUITH |
| CHURCHILL'S SUCCESSOR AS PRIME MINISTER | SIR ANTHONY EDEN |
| IN 1938 THIS P.M. RETURNED TO BRITAIN FROM A MEETING WITH HITLER SAYING, "I BELIEVE IT IS PEACE IN OUR TIME" | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| HE WAS PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM 1957-1963 | HAROLD MACMILLAN |
| HE BECAME BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER IN 2007 | GORDON BROWN |
| BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER FOR THE ENTIRE 1980S | MARGARET THATCHER |
| HE LED BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY FROM 1935 TO 1955 AND SUCCEEDED WINSTON CHURCHILL AS PRIME MINISTER IN 1945 | CLEMENT ATTLEE |
| PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN: 1916-1922 | DAVID LLOYD GEORGE |
| IN 1868 HE BECAME THE FIRST PERSON OF JEWISH ANCESTRY TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN | DISRAELI |
| THE 1997 ELECTION VICTORY OF BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY WON THIS MEMBER THE OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER | TONY BLAIR |
| NAME OF BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER'S RETREAT | CHEQUERS |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN THE 9/11 ATTACKS OCCURRED | TONY BLAIR |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN ARGENTINA INVADED THE FALKLAND ISLANDS | MARGARET THATCHER |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN WWII ENDED IN EUROPE | CHURCHILL |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN WWII BROKE OUT | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WHEN QUEEN VICTORIA WAS ANNOINTED EMPRESS OF INDIA | DISRAELI |
| SPENCER PERCEVAL, THE ONLY BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TO BE ASSASSINATED, WAS KILLED IN THE MEETING PLACE OF THIS BODY | HOUSE OF COMMONS |
| IN 1890 THIS BRITISH FINANCIER & EMPIRE BUILDER WAS ELECTED PRIME MINISTER OF CAPE COLONY, AFRICA | CECIL RHODES |
| THIS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WON A RARE THIRD TERM IN JUNE, 1987 | MARGARET THATCHER |
| A HIGH POINT OF GERMAN APPEASEMENT, 1938'S MUNICH PACT WAS APPROVED BY THIS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| 19TH-C. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER KNOWN BY THE NICKNAME "DIZZY" | BENJAMIN DISRAELI |
| THE FIRST FEMALE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER | MARGARET THATCHER |
| SHE'S WRITTEN 2 VOLUMES OF MEMOIRS: "THE DOWNING STREET YEARS" AND "PATH TO POWER" | MARGARET THATCHER |
| DURING WWI HE SERVED AS FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY | CHURCHILL |
| HE WAS THE FIRST 20TH-C. PRIME MINISTER | SALISBURY |
| "THE ANALYSIS OF THE MIND" AND "MARRIAGE & MORALS" ARE BOOKS BY THIS THINKER, GRANDSON OF A BRITISH PRIME MINISTER | BERTRAND RUSSELL |
| HE WAS THE BRITISH P.M. FROM 1964-70 AND AGAIN FROM '74-'76 | HAROLD WILSON |
| BRITISH PRIME MINISTER 1937-40 | NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN |
| "HISTORY WILL BE KIND TO ME, FOR I INTEND TO WRITE IT" | CHURCHILL |
| "THE LAST LION" IS WILLIAM MANCHESTER'S BESTSELLING BIO OF THIS BRITISH P.M. | CHURCHILL |
| BY SURNAME, THIS BRITISH P.M. MIGHT HAVE BEEN A ROOFER | THATCHER |
| BRITISH P.M. 1990-1997 | JOHN MAJOR |
| BRITISH P.M. 1766-1768 | WILLIAM PITT, THE ELDER |
| BRITISH P.M. 1783-1801 & 1804-1806 | WILLIAM PITT, THE YOUNGER |
| BRITISH P.M. 1945-51 | CLEMENT ATTLEE |
| HORSES OWNED BY THE EARL OF ROSEBERY WON THIS EPSOM RACE 3 TIMES, TWICE WHILE HE WAS PRIME MINISTER | EPSOM DARBY |
| LLOYD GEORGE'S CONSTITUENCY WAS CAERNARVONSHIRE IN THIS PART OF THE U.K. | WALES |
| HIS FAMOUS "DECLARATION" WAS ISSUED IN 1917, YEARS AFTER HE WAS PRIME MINISTER | ARTHUR BALFOUR |
| ONE OF 11 CHILDREN, THIS 26TH PRIME MINISTER COULD HAVE FORMED A POLICE FORCE OUT OF HIS FAMILY | ROBERT PEEL |
| THIS BRITISH P.M. ONCE WAS HELD PRISONER IN A BOER PRISON | CHURCHILL |
| WHILE BRITISH P.M. MARGARET THATCHER HAD GATES PUT UP ON THE WHITEHALL END OF THIS STREET | DOWNING STREET |
| THE TRADITIONAL HOME ADDRESS OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER | 10 DOWNING STREET |
| DURING THE BOER WAR, THIS FUTURE P.M. ESCAPED FROM A PRISON CAMP IN PRETORIA | CHURCHILL |
| THE ONLY BRITISH P.M. TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | CHURCHILL |
| IN 1826 THIS FUTURE BRITISH P.M. PUBLISHED HIS FIRST NOVEL, "VIVIAN GREY" | DISRAELI |
| ON HIS POST-BOER WAR LECTURE TOUR, THIS BRITISH P.M. WAS ONCE INTRODUCED BY MARK TWAIN | CHURCHILL |
| CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER WHO SUCCEEDED ANTHONY EDEN AS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN 1957 | HAROLD MACMILLAN |
| BRITISH P.M. FROM 1940-45 & 1951-55 | CHURCHILL |
| RESIGNED AS PRIME MINISTER IN 1990 | THATCHER |
| THE HOME OF THIS BRITISH P.M. STILL STANDS IN LIVERPOOL | WILLIAM GLADSTONE |
| THE BRITISH CABINET MEETS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER AT THIS FAMOUS RESIDENCE | 10 DOWNING ST. |
| IN 1994 THIS FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WAS INSTALLED AS CHANCELLOR OF THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY | MARGARET THATCHER |
| THIS 4-TIME BRITISH P.M. TRIED TO ABOLISH INCOME TAXES BUT FAILED | GLADSTONE |
| ACCORDING TO FAMILY LEGEND, THIS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WAS PART IROQUOIS ON HIS MOTHER'S SIDE | WINSTON CHURCHILL |
| IN BRITISH POLITICS, AN P.M. IS THE PRIME MINISTER AND A M.P. IS THIS | MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT |
| LIKE CHURCHILL, THIS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, CHOSEN IN 1957, HAD AN AMERICAN MOTHER | HAROLD MACMILLAN |
| IT'S THE ONLY SURNAME EVER SHARED BY A U.S. PRESIDENT AND A BRITISH P.M. | WILSON |
| IN 1850, IT WAS THE NAME OF THE PARTY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND OF THE U.S. PRESIDENT | WHIG PARTY |
| CURRENT BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, HE REPLACED GORDON BROWN | DAVID CAMERON |
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