The top jobs in dozens of professions are usually carried out by people in relative privacy who rarely hit the headlines.
It鈥檚 a bit different if you鈥檙e the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The role can make someone instantly recognisable across the world and stamp their name in the history books.
With that in mind, how much do you know about the timeline of UK prime ministers? Would you be able to place a group of 20th-Century PMs in an ordered list, beginning with the earliest to take office, and ending with the most recent? Test your knowledge in our sorter quiz.
Find out a little more about the prime ministers featured in our quiz in the sections below - but (spoiler alert) this does reveal the correct order, so no peeking until you've played!
Start of a Century
War and Post-War
The 1960s onwards
This article was published in May 2024
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