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Question 1

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Which suffrage group was led by Millicent Fawcett?
Answer
  • NUWSS
  • WSPU

Question 2

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What was the motto of the suffragettes?
Answer
  • 'Deeds not words'
  • 'Actions before work'

Question 3

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Which suffrage group focused n social reform?
Answer
  • WSPU
  • ELFS
  • NUWSS

Question 4

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How many women got the vote in 1918?
Answer
  • 8 million
  • 5 million
  • 6 million

Question 5

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Which Pankhurst took a party of East London working class women to lobby the PM?
Answer
  • Christabel
  • Sylvia
  • Emmeline

Question 6

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What year did women get the vote over 21?
Answer
  • 1918
  • 1928
  • 19138

Question 7

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Who was killed by running under the King's horse at the Derby in 1913?
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  • Emily Davison
  • Emily Davidson

Question 8

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Which PM opposed women's suffrage before the war?
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  • Winston Churchill
  • Asquith

Question 9

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What act gave women the suffrage in 1918?
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  • Representation of the People Act
  • Representation of the Population Act

Question 10

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What date were the Suffragettes formed?
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  • 1903
  • 1987

Question 11

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When was the 'Ill Health Act' passed?
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  • 1912
  • 1913

Question 12

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What did the Ill Health Act become known as?
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  • Cat and Mouse Act
  • Cat and Dog Act

Question 13

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What date were the Suffragists formed?
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  • 1903
  • 1987

Question 14

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Which of the following is an opposing group to women's suffrage
Answer
  • The National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage
  • The League for Opposing Women's Suffrage

Question 15

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Which of the following is an opposing group to women's suffrage
Answer
  • The National League for Opposing Women's Suffrage
  • The League for Opposing Women's Suffrage

Question 16

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What year was Charles Booth's research?
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  • 1902
  • 1906

Question 17

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What fraction of Londoners lived below the poverty line due to illness and unemployment?
Answer
  • 1/2
  • 1/4
  • 1/3

Question 18

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When was the Boer War?
Answer
  • 1899
  • 1898

Question 19

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What percentage of men were unfit for service?
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  • 80%
  • 26%
  • 40%

Question 20

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What research in 1905 showed similar results?
Answer
  • Queen's Commission
  • Royal Commission

Question 21

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What was defined as the poverty line?
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  • £1 a week for a family of 8
  • £1 a week for a family of 5

Question 22

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What proportion of the population did Seebohm Rowntree find lived in poverty during their lives?
Answer
  • 28%
  • 26%
  • 27%

Question 23

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What year were pensions introduced?
Answer
  • 1908
  • 1906
  • 1910

Question 24

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What year were labour exchanges set up?
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  • 1908
  • 1909
  • 1911

Question 25

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What was the Act that meant workers were entitled to compensation?
Answer
  • The Workers Rights Act
  • The Workers Compensation Act

Question 26

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What was the name given to the liberal reforms that were aimed at helping children?
Answer
  • The Children's Charter
  • The Children's Act

Question 27

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When was the Schools Meal Act introduced?
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  • 1907
  • 1906

Question 28

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By 1914 how many children were receiving free school meals?
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  • 150,000
  • 50,000
  • 15,000

Question 29

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When did the government introduce the School Medical Service?
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  • 1907
  • 1910

Question 30

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When was the Old Pensions Act introduced?
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  • 1908
  • 1909

Question 31

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How much did you have to earn for Illness Insurance to become compulsory?
Answer
  • £3
  • £5

Question 32

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Where did the British meet the Germans after promising to defend Belgium (induced by the Schleiffen Plan)?
Answer
  • Mons
  • Somme
  • Marne

Question 33

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What were the BEF so efficient at firing that the Germans thought they were using machine guns?
Answer
  • Stoke Mortar
  • Lee Enfield Rifle

Question 34

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Where was the second meeting of the Allies and the Germans?
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  • Mons
  • Marne
  • Somme

Question 35

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How wide was the front at Marne?
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  • 200km
  • 180km
  • 220km

Question 36

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How far back did the Germans retreat?
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  • 20km
  • 60km

Question 37

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Where did the Germans retreat to?
Answer
  • River Aisne
  • River Nile

Question 38

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How long was the Western Front (trenches)?
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  • 600km
  • 500km

Question 39

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What meant that the German trenches were better than the British?
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  • They had concrete and iron supports which made them stronger against artillery bombardments
  • They had dogs to defend their ground
  • They had better ground because they had been established earlier in the war

Question 40

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What meant that cavalry attacks were rendered useless?
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  • Barbed wire
  • Machine guns

Question 41

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Why were tanks ineffective?
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  • They were slowed down by the mud
  • The heat made the drivers suffer mental illness
  • The tanks were banned for being over powered

Question 42

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What was the name of the trauma caused by the trenches and battle called?
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  • Shell Shock
  • Gun Trauma

Question 43

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How many bullets could a machine gun fire per second?
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  • 8
  • 10

Question 44

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What was attrition?
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  • The throwing of rocks at the enemy trenches
  • The calculated wearing down of the enemy's men and supplies

Question 45

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Which German General ordered the attack at Verdun?
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  • General Falkenhayn
  • General Ludendorff

Question 46

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When was the battle at Verdun?
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  • 1916
  • 1915
  • 1917

Question 47

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How far did a green shell fire from a stokes mortar?
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  • 350km
  • 450km

Question 48

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What made it difficult for the British to use gas attacks?
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  • The wind
  • The law

Question 49

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How many shots could a Lee Enfield Rifle shoot per minute?
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  • 15
  • 20

Question 50

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How far back were the Germans forced at the Battle of the Somme?
Answer
  • 2 miles
  • 4 miles

Question 51

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How long did the Battle of the Somme last
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  • 5 months
  • 10 months

Question 52

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How many Allie lives were lost at the Battle of the Somme?
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  • 620,000
  • 780,000

Question 53

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What country was Ludendorff trying to avoid combat with?
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  • Russia
  • America
  • Hungary

Question 54

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What was the nickname for the offensive?
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  • Operation Jackson
  • Operation Michael

Question 55

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What was the nickname for the offensive?
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  • Operation Jackson
  • Operation Michael

Question 56

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When was Lundendorff's Offensive launched?
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  • 1916
  • 1918

Question 57

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Who was the single French commander who was appointed by the Allies?
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  • Commander Marshall Foch
  • Commander Lincoln Foch

Question 58

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When was DORA introduced by the British government?
Answer
  • 1914
  • 1916

Question 59

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What times were pubs only allowed to open?
Answer
  • Midday to 6:30
  • Midday to 2:30

Question 60

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What was censored to maintain morale?
Answer
  • The internet
  • Newspapers

Question 61

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Select an industry that the government was able to control?
Answer
  • Farming industry
  • Weapon industry

Question 62

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When was the weapon shortage?
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  • 1916
  • 1915
  • 1914

Question 63

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When did Germany announce that they would sink all merchant ships to the UK?
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  • 1915
  • 1918

Question 64

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How many ships were entering and leaving the ports in 1915?
Answer
  • 15,000
  • 150,00

Question 65

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How many German U-boats were there in 1916?
Answer
  • 280
  • 240
  • 200

Question 66

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What year was white bread banned?
Answer
  • 1917
  • 1916

Question 67

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When were ration cards introduced?
Answer
  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918

Question 68

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which of the following meant that Pals Battalions were successful?
Answer
  • They induced regional competition for conscription
  • They gave all men the chance of conscription

Question 69

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What was the Derby Scheme?
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  • The promise of men to fight if called up (no exemptions)
  • The promise of men to fight if called up (exemptions of married or single men)

Question 70

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When was the Military Service Act introduced?
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  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918

Question 71

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What was the Military Service Act
Answer
  • A law that meant all men aged 18-41 could be called up for conscription (no exemption)
  • A law that meant that all men who did not sign up for conscription would be jailed

Question 72

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What was the slang name given to conscientious objectors?
Answer
  • Conchies
  • Conshies

Question 73

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How many conscientious objectors were there?
Answer
  • 6,000
  • 16,000

Question 74

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What was given to the conscientious objectors and abolitionists by women as a form of castigation?
Answer
  • White feathers
  • White shells

Question 75

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What was the group formed by 'conshies' called?
Answer
  • League for Opposing War
  • British Neutrality League

Question 76

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When was the Non-Conscription Fellowship formed?
Answer
  • 1916
  • 1917
  • 1918

Question 77

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Where would a woman have worked as a driver during the war?
Answer
  • WAAC
  • DWS

Question 78

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Which of the following items were rationed?
Answer
  • Sugar, meat, jam, butter and tea
  • Sugar, meat, jam, butter and bread

Question 79

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Who was appointed Minister of Munitions to organise state-run munitions factories?
Answer
  • Lord Kitchener
  • Lloyd George

Question 80

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What was introduced to help war production?
Answer
  • British Summer Time
  • Trade Unions

Question 81

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What links Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby?
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  • They were all places where munitions were manufactured
  • They were all places that were shelled by the German navy

Question 82

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What fraction of women left their war jobs after the war?
Answer
  • 1/2
  • 1/4
  • 3/4

Question 83

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What act in 1918 meant that women could become MPs?
Answer
  • The Equality Act
  • The Qualification of Women Act

Question 84

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In what year was the first female MP elected?
Answer
  • 1918
  • 1920
  • 1924

Question 85

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WIn what year were women given the right o divorce their husbands?
Answer
  • 1923
  • 1926
  • 1924

Question 86

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What angered the trade union in 1926?
Answer
  • Coal owners wanted to cut wages by 26% and increase the working hours to 8
  • Coal owners wanted to cut wages by 13% and increase the working hours to 8

Question 87

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When was Black Friday?
Answer
  • 1921
  • 1926
  • 1925

Question 88

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What was Black Friday?
Answer
  • The day when transport and rail unions failed to support the miner's strike
  • The day when the miners walked in protest with coal on their faces

Question 89

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When was Red Friday?
Answer
  • 1926
  • 1925
  • 1924

Question 90

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What was Red Friday?
Answer
  • The day when the coal industry were given a subsidy from the government to avoid the strike
  • The day when the coal industry went on strike alone

Question 91

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What did the government's Samuelson Commission suggest?
Answer
  • Fire the workers who were on strike
  • Cut the wages but don't increase the hours

Question 92

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What was the name of the governments newspaper during the strikes?
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  • The British Mail
  • The British Gazette

Question 93

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Who declared the strike 'an attack on British democracy'?
Answer
  • Winston Churchill
  • Stanley Baldwin

Question 94

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Who declared the strike 'an attack on British democracy'?
Answer
  • Winston Churchill
  • Stanley Baldwin

Question 95

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What act of violence took place on the 10th of May 1926?
Answer
  • The Flying Scotsman train was derailed
  • Miners exploded several mines

Question 96

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What was the OMS?
Answer
  • (Churchill's) Organisation of the Maintenace Supplies
  • (Churchill's) Order Against Miners Strikes

Question 97

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Which of the following was a result of the General Strike of 1926?
Answer
  • The Trade Disputes Act
  • The abolishment of trade unions

Question 98

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When was the General Strike?
Answer
  • 1924
  • 1926
  • 1928
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