General Election 2015 quiz: Round One - How much do you know about the current election?
Relive the highlights of the campaign with this questionnaire (answers are at the bottom, and if you claim you've scored more than 25... you're a politician)
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Your support makes all the difference.1. Who was Natalie Bennett being interviewed by when she had her “brain fade”?
a) Andrew Neil
b) Graham Norton
c) Nick Ferrari
d) Mishal Hussein
2. Which party leader did not know what Yolo meant?
a) David Cameron
b) Ed Miliband
c) Nick Clegg
d) Nicola Sturgeon
3. Who did Ed Miliband tell Boris Johnson to ditch in the event of him becoming Tory leader?
b) Lynton Crosby
c) Chris Grayling
d) Michael Gove
4. Which football team did David Cameron say he supported that was not his supposedly beloved Aston Villa?
a) Oxford United
b) Manchester United
c) Gillingham
d) West Ham
5. Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy is a season-ticket holder at which football club?
a) Celtic
b) Rangers
c) Aberdeen
d) Berwick Rangers
6. Where did the Green Party unveil its battle bus?
a) Brighton
b) Bristol
c) Greenock
d) Greenford
7. Who “whited up” to encourage black people to vote?
a) Trevor McDonald
b) Naomi Campbell
c) Sol Campbell
d) Lenny Henry
8. Which leading electoral figure’s spouse emerged as a food blogger?
a) Miriam Gonzalez Durantez (Clegg)
b) Samantha Cameron
c) Justine Thornton
d) Kirsten Farage
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9. Which of the following is NOT a front-page headline in the Daily Mail from the past month?
a) Miliband the land grabber
b) Miliband will bring back uncontrolled migration
c) Union’s sinister hold over Miliband
d) Miliband in secret love tryst with Sturgeon
10. Which comedian’s house was Ed Miliband seen leaving late at night?
a) Michael McIntyre
b) Russell Brand
c) Sarah Millican
d) John Bishop
11. Peter Murrell is:
a) Nicola Sturgeon’s husband
b) David Cameron’s chauffeur
c) Nigel Farage’s chief spin-doctor
d) The inventor of the swingometer
12. David Dimbleby anchored his first general election in:
a) 1974
b) 1979
c) 1983
d) 1987
13. How many extra free schools have the Tories pledged to build?
a) 200
b) 400
c) 500
d) 1,000
14. According to Harriet Harman, the actual colour of Labour's "Woman to Woman" pink bus is:
a) Plum
b) Magenta
c) Orchid
d) Purple
15. “Pub Landord” Al Murray kicked off his FUKP party campaign by converting a – what – into a pub?
b) Cricket pavilion
c) Bus stop
d) Beach hut
16. Which of the following long-serving MPs is NOT standing down at this election?
a) Glenda Jackson
b) Francis Maude
c) David Willetts
d) Kenneth Clarke
17. Who used the word “bastards” four times in a seven-minute television interview?
a) Lord Ashdown
b) John Major
c) Boris Johnson
d) Dennis Skinner
18. On 12 March David Cameron said: “The Prime Minister has many responsibilities, sadly securing the future of ---------- isn’t one of them.” Fill in the blank.
a) The EU
b) The UK
c) Top Gear
d) The England cricket team
19. Stephen Kinnock, Labour candidate in Aberavon is married to...
a) Glenys Kinnock
b) The Prime Minister of Denmark
c) Emily Benn
d) He’s a bachelor
20. In which constituency is Ed Miliband the Labour candidate?
b) Primrose Hill
c) South Shields
d) Doncaster North
21. Which of these four is NOT a candidate in this election?
a) Alex Salmond
b) Nicola Sturgeon
c) Natalie Bennett
d) George Galloway
22. In The Independent’s “If I Were Prime Minister” series, whose pledges included bringing back Crackerjack?
a) Philip Pullman
b) Bear Grylls
c) Jenny Eclair
d) Jamie Oliver
23. What links the Conservative candidates in Orpington and in Uxbridge and West Ruislip?
a) They are brothers
b) They are sisters
c) They are lovers
d) They hate each other
24. By the SNP's estimate, renewing Trident would cost...
b) £40bn
c) £50bn
d) £100bn
25. John Prescott's granddaughter told ITV that he eats too many what?
a) Bananas
b) Chips
c) Twix bars
d) Crisps
Answers - How did you do?
1c 2b 3b 4d 5a 6b 7c 8a 9d 10b 11a 12b 13c 14b 15a 16d 17a 18c 19b 20d 21b 22d 23a 24d 25b
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