Bank Holiday Quiz: What was Ulysses S Grant’s middle name?

Politics, including two fabulously obscure questions, history and geography: a test of idiosyncratic knowledge from our Chief Political Commentator

Here is my Bank Holiday quiz. Quirk factor: high. Anyone who follows me on Twitter has a handicap of two points.

1. What was the middle name of Ulysses S Grant, commander of the Union Army and President of the US (above)?

2. What does Pall Mall get its name from?

3. In which general election did UK polling stations stay open until 10pm for the first time?

4. Name the seven cabinet ministers who advocated leaving the European Community in 1975.

5. Who is the Attorney General?

6. What is the oldest city that is a state capital in the US?

7. Who were the final two other candidates Peter Mandelson beat to become director of communications for the Labour Party in 1985?

8. “Soft on drugs, high on taxes.” Whose slogan, at which election, when?

9. Who was the last person to be prime minister while a member of the House of Lords?

10. In which country is the mountain peak furthest from the centre of the Earth?

The answers are here.