1. Which Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dog named Budget?

2. In whose reign was the first recorded English Chancellor?

3. And how about the first British Chancellor?

4. Why “exchequer”?

5. Which Chancellor had to resign after he blurted out the contents of his Budget to a reporter beforehand?

6. Which Chancellor instituted the tradition of carrying a red box into the House? (Think bags.)

7. In a typical Brownian break with tradition, Gordon had a new red box made in 1997. By whom?

8. Which alternative comedian caused outrage with some bad taste remarks about Norman Lamont and his red box?

9. Of the past four Chancellors, three have been Scottish. Name the odd one out. Answer

10. Why might the office of Chancellor cause problems with the diversity police? Answer

11. Which 20th century Chancellor started his career as a lowly tax officer? Answer

12. What unique privilege does the Chancellor enjoy while delivering his Budget?

13. Why was Iain Macleod unable to deliver his 1970 Budget?

14. Whose attempt to inflate the economy led to a runaway boom in the early 1970s which bears his name?

15. Whose “giveaway” Budgets in the late 1980s are generally blamed for the subsequent house price bubble and collapse?

16. Whose 1925 Budget disastrously returned Britain to the gold standard?

17. Whose 1967 statement was derided as “the Budget that never was" and “Budget Day Without A Budget”?

18. What was introduced as a temporary measure to finance the Napoleonic Wars and never went away?

19. Why does the Leader of the Opposition respond to the Budget, rather than the Shadow Chancellor?

20. Which Chancellor has the distinction of having given the shortest Budget speech and, if you include a break, the longest?

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