Votes for Women
Was the NUWSS the Suffragists or the Suffragettes?
Suffragettes
Name 2 "New" Liberals
David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Herbert Henry Asquith
How old did you have to be to get an old age pension in 1908?
70
Who was the Captain of the Titanic?
Edward Smith
Which of the following is the correct spelling?
A. Receive
B. Recive
C. Recieve
A. RECEIVE
What was the name of the Suffragette who threw herself in front of the King's Horse at the Derby in 1913?
Emily Davison
What percentage of volunteer soldiers for the Boer War were unfit for service?
25%
Under the Liberals how many medical inspections did young people get during their school lives?
3
What city, only 130 miles from London, did the Jacobites reach in 1745?
Derby
Who is the headmaster at Hogwarts when Harry Potter first attends the school?
Albus Dumbledore
Who received the vote in 1918?
Women over the age of 30 who were householders or married to householders, working class men.
What percentage of London people did Charles Booth find were living in poverty?
35%
The Old Age Pension paid the elderly up to 5 shillings a week but how many shillings a week did Rowntree say a person needed to stay out of poverty?
7
Name the Scottish King who caused a succession crisis when he died falling from his horse in 1286?
Alexander III
What continent is Timbuktu on?
Africa
What country was the first to give women the vote and what year (within 5 years either side)?
New Zealand 1893
Name one of the cities in the UK that used local taxes to improve the lives of the poor (municipal socialism)?
Birmingham and Glasgow
How many weeks were insured workers covered if they were sick under the National Insurance Act 1911?
26
How many deaths is it estimated that Genghis Khan was responsible for?
40 million
What actor plays Captain America in the Marvel films?
Chris EVans
What was the name of the King's horse that Emily Davison targeted?
Anmer
Who was the man who had conducted a study on poverty in London in the 1860s long before Booth and Rowntree?
Henry Mayhew
How many workers were covered by the National Insurance for unemployment brought in in 1911?
2.25 million
What was the name of German aircrafts that dropped bombs on Britain during WWI?
Zeppelins
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa