College Public Policy

Posted by PGaffney on 29 June 2012

Entirely unrelated to Treasury Minister Chloe Smith and Jeremy Paxman’s sparring on Newsnight, this week’s quiz is on (other)political car crash interviews.

1)      When questioned by Channel 4 on his expenses and specifically why he bought an £800 massage chair, how did former Labour Minister Shahid Malik respond?

a) I have a serious back condition.

b)      You know full well it cost £730.

2)      In Jeremy Paxman’s classic interview with Michael Howard in 1997, how many times did the former Home Secretary fail to answer whether he threatened to overrule the former Director of Prisons?

3)      During the 2008 US Presidential Election, how many newspapers did Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin correctly name (as papers that she read) when being interviewed by Katie Couric?

4)      During the Scottish Labour leadership Election, which candidate did Labour Leader Ed Miliband fail to identify naming him only as “a third candidate who is putting himself forward.”

5)      In an embarrassing turn of events for the BBC World at One Presenter, James Robbins, what was wrong with his interview with  Liberal Democrat MP Mike Crockart on why he wouldn’t vote for an increase in tuition fees?

 

Please feel free to put your answers in the comments field.  Answers later today.

Comments