YEAR 8 - END OF YEAR QUIZ!

Question 1

What is the name of the shelters that people built in their gardens for protection during the Blitz?

Accepted Answer

Anderson shelters

Question 2

What is the name of the device designed to mend broken bones in the trenches?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Splint

Question 3

The People's Charter listed six points, which of the following was not listed?

Accepted Answer

Votes for all women over the age of 21

Question 4

What is the name given to the process started by Martin Luther of challenging the Catholic Church?

Accepted Answer

Reformation

Question 5

Challenge question: When did the first passenger railway open in Britain?

Accepted Answer

1825

Question 6

What age did Labour raise the school leaving age to in 1945?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 7

Isaac Newton is famous for which scientific discovery?

Accepted Answer

Gravity

Question 8

There are two Houses of Parliament - one is called the House of Lords, what is the other called?

Accepted Answer

House of Commons

Question 9

Challenge question: Which country was the first to introduce women's suffrage in 1893?

Accepted Answer

New Zealand

Question 10

The Beveridge Report had identified ‘Five Giants’, what were they?

Accepted Answer

want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness

Question 11

Why did the government impose rationing?

Accepted Answer

To ensure people had a fair share of food

Question 12

What was the term for the disease that affected soldiers from flea bites?

Accepted Answer

Trench Fever

Question 13

What pain killer was used in the trenches?

Accepted Answer

Morphine

Question 14

Challenge question: What is the process of transubstantiation?

Accepted Answer

Catholic belief that bread and wine are physical representations of Jesus

Question 15

When was the NHS created?

Accepted Answer

1948

Question 16

How many hours did workers have to work in factories?

Accepted Answer

16

Question 17

In which city did the Stonewall Riots of 1969 take place?

Accepted Answer

New York

Question 18

The Beveridge Report suggested that the government should protect citizens from...

Accepted Answer

Cradle to Grave

Question 19

What fraction of homes had been destroyed during WWII?

Accepted Answer

1/3

Question 20

General Knowledge: Thomas Tallis was a prolific composer all his life - which of the following is one of his pieces?

Accepted Answer

Spem in alium

Question 21

How many houses were built between 1945 and 1951?

Accepted Answer

1 million

Question 22

John Snow discovered that a disease was spread via the water. Which disease?

Accepted Answer

Cholera

Question 23

In what year did the Peterloo massacre take place?

Accepted Answer

1819

Question 24

Where, from 1660 onwards, did scientists meet to discuss their work and share ideas?

Accepted Answer

The Royal Society

Question 25

What is the name given to the period of economic growth in Britain 1760-1840?

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 26

Challenge question: Which Prime Minister said to the people 'You've never had it so good'?

Accepted Answer

Harold Macmillan

Question 27

During World War One, which of the following was not a defensive feature in the trenches?

Accepted Answer

Firestep

Question 28

Challenge question: Victory in Europe was celebrated on which day?

Accepted Answer

8th May 1945

Question 29

What was William Harvey's major medical discovery?

Accepted Answer

That blood circulates around the body

Question 30

The triangluar slave trade links Africa to the Americas and which other continent?

Accepted Answer

Europe

Question 31

Which treatment for illnesses was not used during the Renaissance period?

Accepted Answer

Chemical drugs

Question 32

What age do you have to be to vote in General Elections today?

Accepted Answer

18

Question 33

General knowledge: What is the name of the actor who has been cast this year to play the new Doctor Who?

Accepted Answer

Ncuti Gatwa

Question 34

John Locke was an enlightenment thinker. What did he say?

Accepted Answer

All mankind being all equal and independent

Question 35

In the Age of Explorations, which European power were the first to start explorations around the world?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 36

When did the Haitian Revolution take place?

Accepted Answer

1791

Question 37

During WW2, what did the government do to keep Britain’s most vulnerable people safe?

Accepted Answer

Evacuated teachers, children, new mothers and pregnant women

Question 38

Which political party won the General Election after WW2?

Accepted Answer

Labour

Question 39

What word is used to describe the a new period of culture, from the French word 're-birth'?

Accepted Answer

Renaissance

Question 40

Who introduced Section 28, banning the toleration of LGBTQ+ relationships in schools?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Question 41

Andreas Vesalius was famous for...?

Accepted Answer

Dissection

Question 42

What was the danger of a small cut in the trenches?

Accepted Answer

Infection

Question 43

When did Henry VIII create the Church of England?

Accepted Answer

1534

Question 44

Which country was referred to as the 'Jewel in the Crown' of the British Empire?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 45

Which description best describes the Suffragette movement?

Accepted Answer

Protesters wliling to take direct action for their cause

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