Q.1
In 1975 Margaret Thatcher was elected Leader of the Conservative Party, the first woman to achieve this office. Whom did she defeat in this election restricted to Tory MPs?
  • Reginald Maudling
  • R. A. Butler
  • Edward Heath
  • Robert Carr
Q.2
During the 1960s and 1970s violence erupted in various seaside resorts between rival gangs of young people. What labels did the two sides give themselves?
  • Mods and Rockers
  • Teds and Toffs
  • Punks and Squares
  • Straights and Gays
Q.3
In 1972 a magazine was first brought out as an unashamedly feminist publication. It closed in What was its name?
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Woman's Own
  • Spare Rib
  • Feminism Today
Q.4
In 1968 disorder broke out in Northern Ireland, beginning a thirty year period of the "Troubles". The movement for civil rights in the Province highlighted discrimination there as a burning issue. Which was the most significant kind of discrimination complained about in Northern Ireland?
  • By the Protestant majority against the Roman Catholic minority
  • By employers against employees
  • By landowners against tenants
  • By men against women
Q.5
Every Easter from the late 1950s a march took place from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, near Reading, to London. It was organised by a pressure group, calling for the unilateral renunciation of nuclear armaments. What was the name of this organisation?
  • The Peace Pledge Union
  • The Committee of 100
  • The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
  • The Peace People
Q.6
In 1970 an Australian-born feminist writer published "the Female Eunuch", which was an instant success and became a key text of the women's movement. Who was she?
  • Carmen Callil
  • Germaine Greer
  • Joan Littlewood
  • Linda Rothstadt
Q.7
A wave of student unrest gripped certain UK universities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Which college, a constituent part of London University, founded in 1895 to concentrate on the social sciences, politics and government, suffered serious disruption between 1966 and 1969?
  • Royal Holloway College
  • University College (UCL)
  • The LSE
  • King's College
Q.8
In April 1968 Enoch Powell, a minister in the Shadow Cabinet, made an inflammatory speech in Birmingham about immigration into Britain from the "New Commonwealth". What "remedy" did he propose for what he perceived as a "problem"?
  • Forcible repatriation
  • Voluntary repatriation
  • Forcible enclosure in ghettos
  • Redistribution around the country to avoid concentrations of immigrants and their dependants in a few places
Q.9
Demonstrations against the United States' policy in Vietnam became more frequent, and were often directed against the US embassy. In which Central London square were these demonstrations concentrated?
  • Manchester Square
  • Grosvenor Square
  • Hanover Square
  • Trafalgar Square
Q.10
In 1970 a group of militant feminists disrupted a televised beauty contest in London. What was the name of the competition?
  • Miss Great Britain
  • Miss UK
  • Miss England
  • Miss World
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