Trivia Thread Resurrection

[Admiral Yi]

No Yi rule, you can ask a question about your own country.

First pitch:

Who was the one British Prime Minister of the 19th century to attend neither a public school or Oxbridge?

[The Brain]

Boot?

[Eddie Teach]

Peel?

[Threviel]

Someone early enough and rich enough to be home educated. Pitt?

[Admiral Yi]

no, no, no

[Tonitrus]

Gonna go with Gladstone.

Had to immediately check myself and am way wrong. 

[Sheilbh]

Gonna go with Gladstone.

Had to immediately check myself and am way wrong. 

Fairly sure he went to Oxford and was later their MP?

Edit: Pam?

[mongers]

Lord North??

[Admiral Yi]

no no

[Admiral Yi]

[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

[Barrister]

[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

[spoiler]I was going to say "of course the Jew didn't go to public school", but according to Wiki his older brothers did, so it wasn't anti-semitism.[/spoiler]

[mongers]

[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

What was slightly interesting about the 1997 election defeat of Conservative MP Henry Bellingham in the North West Norfolk constituency?

[Jacob]

His opponent was dead at the time of the election?

[Barrister]

[spoiler]Disreali[/spoiler]

Y'all can either jump in with a new question or give others the opportunity to guess.

What was slightly interesting about the 1997 election defeat of Conservative MP Henry Bellingham in the North West Norfolk constituency?

Bring back the Yi rule!

[mongers]

His opponent was dead at the time of the election?

Nope, but in one sense he did have another 'opponent' who was long dead.