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Quiz: Tony Blair

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Test your knowledge of Tony Blair, whom John Lanchester writes about in the September 13, 2010, issue of The New Yorker.
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In this week’s magazine, John Lanchester writes about Tony Blair’s new memoir, “A Journey,” which Lanchester says “has been the beneficiary of an unusual form of advance publicity, in that its publication has been depicted” in what movie?
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In his memoir, to whom is Blair referring with this line: “We were both in our ways manipulative people”?
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What do insiders call the conflict between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown?
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In his published diaries, Alastair Campbell, Blair’s director of communications, writes of having “another Austin Powers moment” with Blair. What, in this context, constitutes an “Austin Powers moment”?
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When he entered the House of Commons, in 1983, Blair said he identified with a particular philosophy “not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, [it] corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral.” As what did he identify himself?
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In one of his famous speeches, Blair began by thanking Mayor Daley, who announced this week that he won’t seek reëlection as Chicago’s mayor. What was the subject of that speech?
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A peer of Blair’s from Fettes, the boarding school he attended in Scotland, told the Guardian that the young Blair “absolutely modelled himself” on whom?
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Who or what is “Clarence,” an important part of Blair’s pre-college years?
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Before he married Cherie, Blair dated Mary Harron, who went on to direct what?
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Leo, the fourth of Tony and Cherie’s children, was the first of what type of child to be born to a serving prime minister in more than a hundred and fifty years?
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Blair writes in his memoir that he has “always been more interested in religion than politics.” He converted to Catholicism in 2007, but subsequently took on the Pope on what issue?
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Michael Sheen has played Blair three times. The most recent performance was in “The Special Relationship,” which also starred what actor as Bill Clinton?
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Who belittled Blair’s relationship with George W. Bush by calling him “the U.S. foreign minister”?
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