1987-97

Question 1

By 1990 what had inflation risen to?

Answer 1

10.9%

Question 2

In the opinion polls before the 1992 election the conservatives placed on an average of 29%, what was Labour’s?

Answer 2

41%

Question 3

From mid 1991 to early 1992 unemployment rose from 1.6 million to what?

Answer 3

2.6 million

Question 4

When was ‘Black Wednesday’?

Answer 4

16th September 1992

Question 5

The puppeteers of ‘Spitting Image’ did what?

Answer 5

Presented Major as dull and boring?

Question 6

When was the coal industry privatised?

Answer 6

1994

Question 7

When were the railways privatised?

Answer 7

1996

Question 8

In 1991 Heseltine announced the closures of how many pits?

Answer 8

31

Question 9

When was the citizens charter introduced?

Answer 9

1991

Question 10

Where were 3 IRA members killed by SAS?

Answer 10

Gibraltar

Question 11

When did the IRA announce a ceasefire?

Answer 11

1994

Question 12

In the 1997 election the conservatives gained what % of the vote?

Answer 12

31%

Question 13

Section 28, a 1988 law, banned what?

Answer 13

The promotion of homosexuality by local authorities

Question 14

In 1994 the age of consent for gay men was reduced from 21 to what?

Answer 14

18

Question 15

The % of babies born from unmarried parents grew from 12% in the 1980s to what % in the 1990s?

Answer 15

30%

Question 16

When did rape within marriage become a criminal offence?

Answer 16

1994

Question 17

By 1993 what % of women of working age were in employment?

Answer 17

68%

Question 18

By 1996 what 5 of employees were women?

Answer 18

50%

Question 19

When was Stephen Lawrence murdered?

Answer 19

1993

Question 20

When was the Maastricht treaty?

Answer 20

1992

Question 21

How many were killed in the Srebrenica massacre?

Answer 21

Over 7000