parliament
Parliaments debate and pass laws. This topic is part of Government within Government & Society. This page currently draws on 18 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
parliament trivia questions
A parliament is a country's what?
Answer: Legislative body
Bonus fact: Parliaments debate and pass laws.
A parliament with two chambers is called what?
Answer: Bicameral
Bonus fact: Bi means two.
What is the name of the lower house of the UK Parliament?
Answer: House of Commons
Bonus fact: The House of Commons is the elected chamber.
Which city is the seat of Israel's government and parliament?
Answer: Jerusalem
Bonus fact: Israel's Knesset and major government institutions are in Jerusalem.
Which act created separate parliaments for Northern and Southern Ireland?
Answer: Government of Ireland Act 1920
Bonus fact: The act established the framework for partition.
What new parliament resulted from the union?
Answer: Parliament of Great Britain
Bonus fact: Scottish and English parliaments were replaced by one at Westminster.
Which two monarchs were jointly offered the English Crown by Parliament in 1689?
Answer: William III and Mary II
Bonus fact: Parliament also presented William and Mary with the Declaration of Rights, later enacted as the Bill of Rights.
The English “Model Parliament” commonly cited as a model for later parliaments was summoned in what year?
Answer: 1295
Bonus fact: It included nobles and bishops plus two representatives from each county and town.
Which rebel noble summoned a 1265 Parliament that included representatives of both counties and towns?
Answer: Simon de Montfort
Bonus fact: The 1265 Parliament was summoned during de Montfort’s rebellion against Henry III.
Whose 1265 parliament was the first to include representatives of cities and boroughs alongside county knights for national business?
Answer: Simon de Montfort
Bonus fact: UK Parliament describes the 1265 assembly as an important forerunner of the modern House of Commons.
From 1332, knights of the shire and burgesses sitting together in Parliament were known by what name?
Answer: The Commons
Bonus fact: UK Parliament says the Commons began deliberating separately from the king and nobles after 1341.
In what year was Parliament’s album "Mothership Connection" released?
Answer: 1975
Bonus fact: The Library of Congress includes Parliament’s "Mothership Connection" in the National Recording Registry.