History quiz
Prime minister or not? UK minefield since 1945
Party leaders, deputy prime ministers and chancellors who never got the top job are all on the board. Click only the people who were prime minister.
- Format
- Click the grid
- Items
- 19 to click
- Limit
- 2:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- To find
- 19
- Time limit
- 2:00
- Minefield
- One wrong click ends it
- Click every valid item, in any order.
- Decoys look plausible. Read carefully.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Click every person who was UK prime minister. The grid appears when you start.
About this quiz
The traps include party leaders who lost general elections (Kinnock, Foot, Hague, Howard, Miliband) and deputy prime ministers (Prescott, Clegg, Howe).
- Winston Churchill counts: his second term began in 1951.
- Every name to avoid is checked in code against the list of prime ministers.
Sources
- [1]GOV.UK. Past Prime Ministers.
- [2]GOV.UK. Prime Minister.
Note on the data. Prime ministers and their years are those of Ribbia's quiz on UK prime ministers since 1900, which follows GOV.UK's list of past prime ministers (read on 3 October 2026). The names to avoid are checked in code against that list and were checked by hand against GOV.UK's list of prime ministers before 1900.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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