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Old 17-05-2008, 12:58
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1) Who was the first Labour Prime Minister to form a government in 1924? - Ramsey Macdonald - poppy

2) Who promised America ‘This nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and government of the people of the earth, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth’? - Abraham Lincoln - Von

3) Which Soviet leader did Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin replace in a Kremlin coup in October 1964? - Nikita Khrushchev -easyg

4) Which famous politician dubbed Russia ‘A puzzle within a mystery wrapped up in an enigma’? - Winston Churchill - easyg

5) From which famous document is the following taken ‘ We hold these truths as self evident - that all men are created equal’? - The Declaration of Independance - Bruv

6) Who was president of the USA from 1963-1969? - LBJ - Bruv

7) In which self governing country did women first get the right to vote in a national election? - New Zealand - jaysay

8) Which British politician is best known as the architect of the National Health Service? - Aneurin Bevan - Kels97


9) Which German politician was known as ‘The Iron Chancellor’? - Von Bismarck - Von

10) Which British politician was chiefly responsible for the creation of the British police Force as we know it? - Robert Peel - Von

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Old 17-05-2008, 13:04
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6................ Lyndon Bains Johnson....or similar spelling
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Old 17-05-2008, 13:07
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9. Bismarck.
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Old 17-05-2008, 16:20
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4. Me
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Old 17-05-2008, 16:29
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I, Ramsay Macdonald
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Old 17-05-2008, 18:00
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No 3. Nikita Khrushchev

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Old 17-05-2008, 20:24
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4. Me
I think that might have been a tad too subtle.
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Old 17-05-2008, 21:30
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8, Aneurin Bevan

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Old 17-05-2008, 21:51
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I think that might have been a tad too subtle.
No I was lacking the Winston S. bit I guess. LOL
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Old 18-05-2008, 09:16
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10. Sir Robert Peel.

But it was NOT the police force as we NOW know it.

THEN it was a proper police force. And remained so until the 1990's.
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