Which MP is buried with his racing goggles?
Gordon Brown’S 500-page memoir has just been published and david Cameron’s is on the way. But how well do you know the rest? only one answer in each category is true.
1) In her memoir, Cherie Blair says there is one thing ‘I’ve never been short of’. What is it?
a) Cash b) Houses c) Commonsense d) Theability to laugh
2) In her second volume of diaries, Edwina Currie is a little harsh on John Major. She employs all these terms of abuse against him except one. Which is it?
a) A little man in a big body b) It’d be a kindness to all and sundry to shoot him c) Daftas a brush d) Justdim, period
3) What was the recipe Tony Blair donated to the Islington Cookbook in 1993?
a) Fettuccine with sundried tomatoes and capers b) Bangerswith onions and mash c) Guacamoledip with a lycheebased dressing d) Roastchicken with all the trimmings 4) The widow of which politician revealed in a biography of her husband that he had been buried with his racing goggles, biscuits for his dogs, some heather from Scotland and his House of Commons pass? a) JohnSmith b) NicholasFairbairn c) DonaldDewar d) AlanClark
5) In her autobiography, Ann Widdecombe reveals she told her Strictly partner Anton du Beke there were some things she would not do. Which of these was one of them?
not a) Wear short skirts b) Wriggle her hips c) Dothe splits d) Let him indulge in innuendo
6) In John Prescott’s memoir, one sentence begins: ‘My problem is...’. What comes next?
a) ‘. . . mybrain works faster than my mouth’ b) ‘. . . mymouth works faster than my brain’ c) ‘. . . mybrain works faster than my fist’ d) ‘. . . myfist works faster than my elbow’
7) Pair the title of the political memoir with its author:
a) Death Of An Idealist b) PullingNo Punches c) LastMan Standing d) Life In The Jungle e) TheThird Man i) Jack Straw ii) Peter Mandelson iii) John Stonehouse iv) Michael Heseltine v) John Prescott 8) Which of the authors listed in the previous question confessed in his autobiography to having undergone psychoanalysis twice a week for ten years? 9) In his new memoirs, Gordon Brown writes that ‘My earliest memories are all of one thing...’ What is it? a) a Boxing b) Running c) Weeping d) d Dancing 10) 1 Which former Tory minister titled his chapter on Mrs Thatcher, ‘Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am’? a) NicholasRidley b) NigelLawson c) Kenneth Clarke d) d CecilParkinson 1 11) Who published a diet book in which chapter one was called Being Fat, chapter two was called On Becoming Thin and chapter three was called On Staying Thin? a) NigelLawson b) EricPickles c) CharlieFalconer d) NicholasSoames
12) In his memoir, ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown wrote that ‘I have known few more congenial experiences in my life than . . . what?’
a) ‘. . . sittingevery morning in the company of my fellows, over a 20ft deep latrine’ b) ‘. . . raisinga sudden Point of Order in the middle of an excessively long and pompous speech by a government flunkey’ c) ‘. . . takingmy long-haired dachshund to the pet parlour for a wash and blow-dry’ d) ‘. . . singinga patriotic song to the sound of bullets flying past me’ Answers: 1d; 2c; 3a; 4d; 5c; 6a; 7 a-iii, b-v, c-i, d-iv, e-ii; 8i; 9b; 10c; 11a; 12a.