Pub Quiz thread
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Cheers Yorkie. The last one of these disappeared from the UK. in 1950. Scotland was the first to have them, and Ireland still has them. Australia and India have also had them. The Labour Party tried to get rid of them in 1930. What are they ?
yorkshirehornet
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yorkshirehornet
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It does have something to do with people Yorkie - or rather groups of people. In fact it may have affected about quarter of the people where you live, had we had these in later times.sorry...i meant are we talking about people here?
Something which was actually abolished in the UK. in 1948, but came into full effect in 1950. Ireland still has these - 2 of them. They were introduced to England by James 1.
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Some more big clues: What did Ramsay MacDonald, Richard Cromwell, William Pitt the Younger, William Gladstone and Robert Peel all have in common ?
Ramsay MacDonald was MP for the Combined Scottish Universities - a constituency that no longer exists. Anything to do with that?
I think you've got it BB. The University Constituency was abolished in the UK. in 1948, and the sitting MPs remained sitting until 1950. It existed first in Scotland and was brought to England in 1603. Cambridge and Oxford Universities had 2 MPs each, London Univ. had one - the combined Universities in England (those which existed in 1918) got two members between them. Both the Liberals and Labour objected to this because it was a case of plural voting ie. students could vote a second time in their home constituency. Seanad Eireann (the Irish Upper House) still has 3 senators each from the Univ. of Dublin and the Nat. Univ. of Ireland. Over to you.
There are two lakes in Africa which are (naturally) toxic to nearly all forms of life - the waters of one have been known to strip away human skin - yet one creature thrives in both. Which lakes and which creature?