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Pub quiz question 7044 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is money handed to Neil Hamilton in the Cash for Questions scandal said to have been contained in?
Answer: A: Brown envelopes
Notes: *: 1994-1996
Categories: Politics (2) Sleaze (2) 1990s (2)

Pub quiz question 7067 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was 'that woman' Bill Clinton claimed he didn't have sexual relations with?
Answer: A: Monica Lewinsky
Notes: *: 1998
Categories: 1990s (1) Politics (2) Sleaze (2)

Pub quiz question 870 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Labour politician resigned from government in 1998 over a dodgy house loan, came back in 1999 only to resign again in 2001 for accusations of influencing some passport applications, and eventually returned to the cabinet in 2008?
Answer: A: Peter Mandleson
Categories: Politics (4) 2000s (4) 1990s (4) Sleaze (4)
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Pub quiz question 7206 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which football club, who won the 1986 League Cup, was saved from bankruptcy by Robert Maxwell?
Answer: A: Oxford United
Categories: 1980s (5) Sports (4) Football (3) Sleaze (5)

Pub quiz question 869 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal Democrat MP resigned in 2006 after the News of the World revealed that he'd paid a 23-year-old male prostitute to perform certain acts on him, which he subsequently blamed on a mid-life crisis and the stress of going bald?
Answer: A: Mark Oaten
Categories: 2000s (4) Politics (4) Sleaze (4)

Pub quiz question 2558 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British secretary of State for war resigned in 1963?
Answer: A: (John) Profumo
Notes: *: Forced by his affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Russian spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it.
Categories: 1960s (5) History (5) Politics (5) Sleaze (5)
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Pub quiz question 7134 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 7087 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who talked to Princess Diana in what became known as the 'Squidgygate affair?'
Answer: A: James Gilbey
Notes: *: Recorded 'New Year's Eve 1989', publicised 1992
Categories: Sleaze (5) Royalty (5) 1990s (5)

Pub quiz question 866 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which labour MP was forced to resign when his affair with the then Spectator editor Kimberley Quinn came to light in 2004, and subsequently had to fight to get a DNA test to prove which, if any, of her two children was his?
Answer: A: David Blunkett
Categories: 2000s (3) Politics (3) Sleaze (3)
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Pub quiz question 7042 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who did a judge ask about with the words "Is he in need of cold, unloving, rubber-insulated sex in a seedy hotel room?"
Answer: A: Jeffrey Archer
Notes: *: Mr Justice Caulfield, 1987
Categories: Sleaze (7) 1980s (7) Politics (7)