Personalities
Prime Minister of the UK, 1979-1990
Margaret Thatcher
What was the nickname of the Community Charge that contributed to Thatcher's downfall in 1990?
Poll Tax
What was the year in which the Miners' Strike began?
1984
The act of de-nationalising a company
Privatisation
The US President whose tenure in office overlapped with Thatcher both in terms of dates and political philosophy
Thatcher's main economic advisor during the 1970s
Keith Joseph
Which was the first industry to be privatised in 1981?
British Aerospace
What broke out in Liverpool and London during the 1981 Recession, most notoriously in Toxteth?
Riots
The economic theory of using interest rates to control the money supply in order to control inflation
Monetarism
Yuppie
Austrian liberal economist whose ideas inspired monetarism and Thatcher's economic policies
Friedrich Hayek
What did the Thatcher government do to interest rates as soon as she came into office in 1979?
Raise them dramatically (to 17%)
How many were left unemployed in the 1981 recession?
3 million
The economic model of expanding the logic of the free market as far as possible
Neoliberalism
The organisation that attempted to assassinate Thatcher in Brighton in 1983
IRA
Leader of the National Union of Miners during the Miners' Strike
Arthur Scargill
Which industry's privatisation in 1986 was accompanying by the 'Tell Sid' campaign?
British Gas
Which economic problem widened substantially during the course of the Thatcher years?
Income inequality (Gini Coefficient: 0.27 to 0.34)
The era from which Thatcher's social and cultural views came from
Victorian Era
The name of the battleship sunk by the Royal Navy during the Falklands War of 1982
Belgrano
President of the National Coal Board during the Miners' Strike
Ian MacGregor
What did the Thatcher government deregulate in 1986, causing the Big Bang?
London Stock Exchange
What stood at 28% by the time Thatcher left office?
Child poverty rate (half points for just 'poverty')
The 'ideal society' that was the objective of Thatcherism
Property-owning democracy
What Margaret Thatcher said was her greatest achievement after leaving office and why.
Tony Blair, the Labour Prime Minister, who moved his party to abandon socialism as one of its core philosophies.