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Quiz about Robert Bob Hawke ex Australian Prime Minister
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.
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Author
go_broncos
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
246,843
Updated
Mar 02 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
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


Question 2 of 10
2. What position did Bob Hawke hold before entering politics? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which Victorian seat did Bob Hawke hold during his tenure as Prime Minister? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Who did Bob Hawke unsuccessfully challenge in the 1963 general election? Hint


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


Question 6 of 10
6. Who replaced Bob Hawke as Prime Minister in 1991? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What was unusual about Bob Hawke's life before becoming Prime Minister? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What did Bob Hawke and earlier ALP leader John Curtin share in common? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. What was Bob Hawke's notable reformation as Prime Minister (it happened in September 1985)? Hint


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



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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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