Budget 99 Quiz

BBC News Online would like to thank the hundreds of you who entered the Budget 99 quiz.

Five entrants answered all 20 questions correctly so we set them all a tie-breaker. The winner was Dave Randall of London, who will receive his prize shortly.

The correct answers are in bold below.

Who was the UK's youngest chancellor of the exchequer on taking office?

		William Pitt (the Younger)
		Winston Churchill
		Gordon Brown

Who delivered the longest uninterrupted Budget speech at a mammoth 4 hours, 45 minutes?

		Benjamin Disraeli
		William Gladstone
		Geoffrey Howe

Which future chancellor made his first visit to Parliament as a 13-year-old schoolboy to watch the Budget

		John Major
		Nigel Lawson
		Gordon Brown

When Nigel Lawson became Chancellor, what did Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tell him to do?

		Lose weight
		Buy at least one good suit
		Get a haircut

Hugh Dalton resigned as chancellor after he was discovered to have leaked details of the 1947 Budget to a journalist from which newspaper?

		Sun
		Mirror
		Star

In the 1950s, which chancellor introduced Premium Bonds, which were denounced by the Opposition as "a squalid raffle"?

		RA Butler
		Harold Macmillan
		Peter Thorneycroft

Which chancellor described being criticised by his opposite number, Sir Geoffrey Howe, as like "being savaged by a dead sheep"?

		Roy Jenkins
		Jim Callaghan
		Denis Healey

Which Budget first introduced Income Tax?

		1733
		1799
		1842

Which chancellor first introduced a tax on betting?

		Benjamin Disraeli
		Winston Churchill
		David Lloyd George

Which chancellor rose to make his Budget speech and opened the famous red box - only to discover he had left the speech behind?

		Ward Hunt
		Herbert Asquith
		Hugh Gaitskell

Which chancellor held up the red box for the traditional pre-Budget photographs, smiling inwardly at the knowledge that it contained not the speech but a bottle of whisky?

		Denis Healey
		Nigel Lawson
		Norman Lamont

When he entered Parliament in 1983, with whom did current chancellor Gordon Brown share an office?

		Tony Blair
		Robin Cook
		Jack Straw

In his pre-Budget report of last November, what did Gordon Brown forecast inflation to be?

		2.3%
		2.5%
		2.7%

Mr Brown drank mineral water at both his previous Budgets, but which brand?

		Co-op own brand
		Evian
		Highland Spring

In 1985, how did Labour's Denis Canavan force a delay in the delivery of the Budget speech?

		He introduced a Ten-Minute Rule Bill
		He cried 'I spy strangers!'
		He brandished the Royal Mace

Who delivered a speech entitled 'A Budget for Savers'?

		John Major
		Nigel Lawson
		Norman Lamont

In the 20th century, which chancellor has held the post for the shortest period of time?

		Stanley Baldwin
		Neville Chamberlain
		Iain Macleod

In his 1998 Budget, by how much did Gordon Brown raise the duty on a packet of 20 cigarettes?

		20p
		27p
		30p

In the same Budget, by how much did he increase the duty on a bottle of spirits?

		0p
		20p
		50p

And finally, also in 1998, by how much did Mr Brown increase the duty on a bottle of wine?

		0p
		3p
		4p