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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)

Sunday 03 May 2015 16:27 BST
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Sharpen your pencils and prepare for our ultimate General Election quiz (Getty Images)

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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?

Boris: leader in waiting? (Getty)

a) Theresa May

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

Where did Natalie Bennett's bus set out from? (Getty)
Where did Natalie Bennett's bus set out from? (Getty) (Getty Images)

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

Dimbleby: Part of the General Election furniture (Getty)
Dimbleby: Part of the General Election furniture (Getty) (Getty Images)

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?

Al Murray is making an unlikely bid for parliament (Getty)

a) Fire engine

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?

Ed explains just where his planned constituency is (Getty)

a) Hampstead and Kilburn

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...

Impressive submarine, but just how expensive is Trident? (Getty)

a) £30bn

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?

(Getty Images)

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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