In At Number Ten Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ramsay McDonald

The first leader of the Labour Party was Scottish trades unionist Kier Hardie, and in the election of 1900, the party won two of a possible 670 seats. By 1924, the party's popularity was enough for them to win 191 seats, which equated to 30.1% of the vote and was enough for Ramsay McDonald to form a minority government.

Answer: Bonar Law

Law served as PM for just 210 days between October 1922 and May 1923, although there have been several cases of a short time in office. William Lamb served for just 122 days in 1834, following the resignation of Charles Grey and following Lamb, the Duke of Wellington served as caretaker prime minister for just 25 days while Sir Robert Peel returned from Europe. Conservative, Peel himself held office for just 120 days before losing to Viscount Melbourne's Whig Party in the general election, although his Conservatives did win the 1841 election and he was PM for almost the next five years.

Answer: Alec Douglas-Home

Sir Alec Douglas-Home served just one year as PM from October 1963 to October 1964 and is remembered more for his tireless work in other departments than his premiership. During his tenure as secretary of state for commonwealth affairs, he managed to avert a crisis and possible breakup of the Commonwealth over the Suez crisis of 1956, and as foreign secretary he had to negotiate with Nikita Khrushchev and voice the UK's opposition to the Berlin Wall as well as support USA over the Cuban missile crisis.

Answer: Ted Heath

Announced in December 1973 and coming into force on January 1st 1974, the Three-Day Week was implemented when industrial action by coal miners led to a severe depletion of electricity availability. In addition to a three-day working week, TV broadcasts ended at ten thirty each night and pubs were ordered to close. Services considered essential such as hospitals, newspapers and supermarkets were exempt from the working ban.

The fallout from the three-day week resulted in Heath's Conservative government losing the general election of 1974 allowing Harold Wilson to form a Labour government.

The three-day working week ended on 8 March 1974.

Answer: Gordon Brown

Brown was just 16 when the injury occurred resulting in a retinal detachment. Although it was operated on, doctors were unable to save the sight in this eye, although luckily for Brown, they were able to save the sight in his right eye when he later noticed the same symptoms occurring. Brown was PM for three years between 2007 and 2010, after spending a decade as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair.

Answer: Tony Blair

Blair was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1953 and in 1997 became the third person born in the city to become PM, after Lord Bute (1762-63) and Lord Aberdeen (1852-55). Although Blair became PM in the 20th century, he was in office until 2007, therefore making him the first PM of the 21st century.

Answer: Herbert Henry Asquith

Asquith was known as H.H. Asquith throughout much of his public life, although he was known as Herbert to his family and Henry to his wife. He served as PM from 1908 to 1916 and will always be remembered for his leadership of the country during the initial stages of WWI in 1914.

Answer: Stanley Baldwin

Not only was Baldwin the only PM under Edward VIII, he was also PM three times and served under three different monarchs. He first became PM in 1923 and served until January 1924 under George V, and was succeeded by Ramsay MacDonald. However MacDonald lost the 1924 election and Baldwin was back in power in November where he remained until June 1929, again under George V.

After losing both the 1929 and 1931 elections to MacDonald's Labour Party, Baldwin's Conservatives won the 1935 election, and he served until 1937 under George V (until 1936), Edward VIII (1936) and George VI (1936 onwards).

Answer: Bonar Law

Law was born in 1858 in the British colony of New Brunswick, prior to it becoming one of four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation, along with Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario in 1867. He was suffering from throat cancer when elected in 1922 and due to his short time in office he is often referred to as the unknown or forgotten prime minister.

After resigning in May 1923, he died from the disease in October of the same year. The high school in Rexton, New Brunswick is named the Bonar Law Memorial High School in his honour.

Answer: David Lloyd George

Not only was Lloyd George the first PM to use Chequers, he was also the first PM for whom English was a second language. He was born in Manchester, England to Welsh parents and was raised as a Welsh speaker. When he was young, his family moved from Manchester to Pembrokeshire, Wales on account of the ill health of his father, William George.

When William died in 1864, his widow moved with the children to her native Llanystumdwy, where she lived with her brother, Richard Lloyd. Lloyd as uncle to young David George, was such an influence on the boy, that he added the name Lloyd to his own, becoming David Lloyd George.