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Quiz about Robert Bob Hawke ex Australian Prime Minister

Robert (Bob) Hawke, ex Australian Prime Minister Quiz

Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke was an Australian Prime Minister. Here's a few questions on his life and Prime Ministership.

A multiple-choice quiz by go_broncos. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
go_broncos

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
246,843

Updated
Mar 02 24

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. How many years was Bob Hawke the Australian Prime Minister? Hint

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Question 2 of 10

2. What position did Bob Hawke hold before entering politics? Hint

Director of NAB (National Australia Bank)

University lecturer (Monash Uni)

Queens Councillor (Hawke, James & Leahy)

President of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Which Victorian seat did Bob Hawke hold during his tenure as Prime Minister? Hint

Gellibrand

Wills

Melbourne Ports

Casey

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who did Bob Hawke unsuccessfully challenge in the 1963 general election? Hint

Andrew Peacock

John Howard

Malcolm Fraser

Hubert Opperman

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Question 5 of 10

5. Besides being an Australian Prime minister, Bob Hawke made the "Guinness Book of Records". What achievement won him a place in the record books? Hint

A College debate

Introducing Medicare

Longest serving ALP Prime Minister

Beer drinking

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who replaced Bob Hawke as Prime Minister in 1991? Hint

John Howard

Paul Keating

Robert Menzies

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was unusual about Bob Hawke's life before becoming Prime Minister? Hint

He was left handed

He was a teetotaller

He was never a Cabinet Minister

He never went to university

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Question 8 of 10

8. What did Bob Hawke and earlier ALP leader John Curtin share in common? Hint

Overcame alcoholism

Both Rhode scholars

Both in Guinness book of records

Both won 4 elections

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Question 9 of 10

9. What was Bob Hawke's notable reformation as Prime Minister (it happened in September 1985)? Hint

Floating the Australian dollar

Selling off the Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Privatising state sector industry

Introducing a Capital Gains tax

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Question 10 of 10

10. What eventually caused Bob Hawke's decline in popularity and then his demise as ALP leader and Prime Minister? Hint

Return to drinking

Credit blowout / high interest rates

Mabo court decision

Stopping the damming of the Franklin River

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How many years was Bob Hawke the Australian Prime Minister?

Answer: 8

Before being elected PM in March 1983, he was only in parliament for two years and only opposition leader for one month.

2. What position did Bob Hawke hold before entering politics?

Answer: President of the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions)

Bob Hawke was the ACTU president from 1969 to 1980.

3. Which Victorian seat did Bob Hawke hold during his tenure as Prime Minister?

Answer: Wills

Bob Hawke held the seat of Wills through 4 general elections. Wills is in the North/Western suburbs of Melbourne.

4. Who did Bob Hawke unsuccessfully challenge in the 1963 general election?

Answer: Hubert Opperman

Bob Hawke stood for the ALP against the then Liberal minister for immigration in the seat of Corio.

5. Besides being an Australian Prime minister, Bob Hawke made the "Guinness Book of Records". What achievement won him a place in the record books?

Answer: Beer drinking

While at University College, Oxford, Bob Hawke drank two and a half pints of ale in only 11 seconds. This was punishment for not wearing his gown in the Great Hall for dinner. The penalty was to drink 2 and a half pints in under 25 seconds.

6. Who replaced Bob Hawke as Prime Minister in 1991?

Answer: Paul Keating

Paul Keating challenged Bob Hawke for the ALP leadership claiming Hawke reneged on a deal to hand over the leadership before the 1990 election. He was narrowly defeated and resigned from parliament in 1992.

7. What was unusual about Bob Hawke's life before becoming Prime Minister?

Answer: He was never a Cabinet Minister

Bob Hawke went straight from Union leader to member for Wills in 1980 and then leader of the opposition in 1982 after deposing Bill Hayden as ALP leader, then winning the next election. He studied at both the University of Western Australia and Oxford University in the UK, where he famously set a world record for drinking 2 1/2 pints of beer in 11 seconds.

8. What did Bob Hawke and earlier ALP leader John Curtin share in common?

Answer: Overcame alcoholism

Bob Hawke went through his entire term of office without a drink only resuming moderately after his retirement.

9. What was Bob Hawke's notable reformation as Prime Minister (it happened in September 1985)?

Answer: Introducing a Capital Gains tax

The introduction of the Capital Gains Tax was strongly opposed by the opposition at the time, but surpisingly was never reversed when thay returned to power in 1996.

The dollar was floated in Decmber 1983, and the CBA was privatisedin the 1990s.

10. What eventually caused Bob Hawke's decline in popularity and then his demise as ALP leader and Prime Minister?

Answer: Credit blowout / high interest rates

This caused a severe recession in 1991 thus giving leverage to Treasurer Paul Keating to overthrow Bob Hawke as ALP leader, and Prime Minister.

Source: Author go_broncos

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