In the spirit of the festive season, I have cooked up EHN's first ever Christmas quiz, featuring absolutely no prizes for the first person to submit the right answers.
1. In which year did “The Great British Property Scandal” first appear on Channel 4?
A. 2010.
B. 2011.
C. 1983.
2. David Ireland was awarded what honour in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours?
A. MBE.
B. OBE.
C. BBies.
3. 17th December 2014, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for C&LG announced that the number of long term empty homes is the lowest it has been since when?
A. 2010.
B. Records began.
C. Time began.
4. Which late Titan of the empty homes arena and the wider housing world was said to have “comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable”?
A. Jennifer Lawrence.
B. Bob Lawrence.
C. Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen.
5. Who said, “This empty house is my tree, and you are my tiger” about a building off Blandford Street in London?
A. Sherlock Holmes.
B. Dame Kelly Holmes
C. Barratt Homes
6. Who performed the 1985 hit, “Empty Rooms”?
A. Gary Barlow.
B. Garry Moore.
C. M. Barrymore
7. How many empty homes are there in the Village of Derwent?
A. All of them.
B. None. But there might some be in the Parish of Derwent.
C. More than in Burnley.
8. Why are all the all homes empty in the French village of Oradour-sur-Glanne?
A. Low demand for housing.
B. Their owners are Buy to Leave investors.
C. They are left empty as a memorial to the Martyred Village.
9. Why can’t you use an EDMO on the empty homes of Imber in Wiltshire?
A. They have been been un-banded by the Valuation Office.
B. They are not dwellings.
C. They are genuinely on the market for sale or rent.
10. A Tie breaker, allowing you to come up with the most enlightening answer.
Is Schrodinger’s home empty?
(email your response direct to me on this to earn a quantum of champagne). Nick.Pritchard-Gordon@reading.gov.uk
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