Enoch Powell Quiz

Questions

1. Where was Powell appointed Professor of Greek in 1937, at the age of 25?

Cambridge
Sydney
Birmingham
Toronto

2. Where did Powell serve in the war?

Australia and Africa
Australia and India
Africa and India
Africa and Europe

3. Though Powell joined the army as a private, by the end of the war he was a ...

Colonel
Brigadier
Brigadier-General
General

4. Which constituency did Powell represent between 1950 and February 1974?

West Midlands
Birmingham Edgbaston
Birmingham South West
Wolverhampton South West

5. Which constituency did Powell represent between October 1974 and 1987?

Northern Ireland
Ulster
South Down
Belfast South

6. When did Powell lose a by-election?

1947
1974
1986
1987

7. When did Powell win a by-election?

1947
1974
1986
1987

8. Which Prime Minister offered Powell the post of Welsh minister?

Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Sir Douglas Home

9. What was the first step in Powell’s frontbench carrier?

Housing Minister
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Welsh Minister

10. Whose cabinet was Powell a member of?

Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Sir Douglas Home