Women in 20th century Ireland
What was the marriage bar?
A law that prevent female civil servants from marrying while employed
19th century (1800s)
What is communism?
A system where the government controls all business and ownership
What is an archive
Where primary source documents are held
Which planet in the solar system is known as the 'red planet'?
Mars
What was a mother and baby home?
Somewhere young and unmarried pregnant women were sent
Name a patron of the GAA
Archbishop Croke, Michael Davitt, C.S. Parnell
What was a middle-class farmer called?
A kulak
What is an artefact?
A man-made object from the past
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
The right to vote
Why did Bloody Sunday happen?
British soldiers were killed by the IRA
Describe collectivization
Merging small farms into large ones to increase production
What volcano exploded an covered pompeii with ash?
Mt Vesuvius
What is 40% of 350?
140
What laws were brought in in the 1970s that improved women's lives? List at least 2
Employment equality act, payment equality act, divorce legal, marriage bar removed
Who were 'the Squad'?
Michael Collins' special unit in the IRA
Where was Stalin from?
Georgia
Pollen analysis, carbon dating, stratigraphy, dendrochronology (tree-ring dating)
In which country would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?
Tanzania
Who was Kathleen Lynn and why was she famous?
She was a member of the IWFL, a doctor for CnB and was famously rejected from a job for being a woman
What was rule 27
A ban on playing foreign sports
What is the Russian government building/parliament called?
The Kremlin
What is a geophysical survey?
When an archaeologist uses sound and electrical waves to identify whether there are objects deep down in the ground
What animal has the longest tongue?
Giraffe