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UK Politics
Ireland and Northern Ireland
Slavery in the US
Civil Rights Movement
The Environment
100
Scotland's First Minister
Who is Nicola Sturgeon
100
The battle between King James II and William of Orange
What is the Battle of the Boyne
100
The century the first slaves were imported to America
What is the 17th century?
100
The leader of the SCLC
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
The gas that causes global warming
What is carbon dioxide?
200
The UK Party that won the election and now governs the UK
What is the Conservative Party
200
The year that Ireland was divided in two - The Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which remained a part of the UK
What is 1921?
200
The machine that made the spinning of cotton more efficient
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
The person responsible for starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
Oil, gas and coal
What are fossil fuels?
300
The two Houses making up the UK Parliament
What are the House of Lords and the House of Commons
300
The period of unrest and conflict in Northern Ireland, starting in the 1960s.
What are "The Troubles"?
300
The three primary "cash crops" for which slave labour was needed
What is sugar, cotton and tobacco?
300
A method of protest where blacks would occupy seats in cafes that were reserved for whites.
What are sit-ins?
300
That effect by which more solar rays are trapped in the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
The Prime Minister's home address
What is 10 Downing Street?
400
The tragic incident in 1972 when 13 Catholic protestors were killed by English paratroopers.
What was "Bloody Sunday"?
400
The name of the people who worked to end slavery
What are abolitionists?
400
The civil rights activists who drove buses through the southern states.
What are Freedom Riders
400
The international agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, not signed by the US
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
500
In elections, each of these elects one Member of Parliament
What is a constituency?
500
The agreement reached in 1998 between Catholics and Protestants, which was a major step towards a more peaceful Northern Ireland.
What was "the Good Friday agreement"
500
The presidential order of 1863 that said that all slaves were now free in the US.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The law that formally ended segregation in the US in 1964
What is The Civil Rights Act?
500
They allow us to measure the level of CO2 in the air hundreds and thousands of years back.
What are ice cores?