Social - Key Facts

Question 1

Poll Tax was remodelled as …

Answer 1

Council Tax

Question 2

Industries that were privatised

Answer 2

• Coal Industry
• Railways

Question 3

Private Finance Initiatives (PFI)

Answer 3

Public-private partnerships that meant private companies would fund infrastructure improvements and then deliver public services that the state would pay for

Question 4

Citizen Charter

Answer 4

Attempted to give public service users more power the quality of the services they recieved by providing information about the standards they should expect

Question 5

Cost of implementing the Poll Tax that had been wasted

Answer 5

£1.5 billion

Question 6

Industry that Major wanted to privatise but ran into opposition

Answer 6

Post Office

Question 7

Aspect of the Citizens Charter that became target of satire

Answer 7

Cones Hotline

Question 8

Disease that meant British beef was banned in Europe

Answer 8

Mad Cow Disease

Question 9

Number of mining pits closed

Answer 9

31

Question 10

Something that Princess Diana did that had a profound social affect

Answer 10

Shook hands with a patient with AIDs at the Royal Middlesex Hospital

Question 11

Gay Rights pressure group

Answer 11

Stonewall

Question 12

Success of Stonewall in 1994

Answer 12

Reduction in the legal age of consent from 21 to 18

Question 13

Agency set up to make sure that absent parents paid maintenance for their children

Answer 13

Child Support Agency

Question 14

Nickname of AIDs

Answer 14

‘Gay Plague’

Question 15

Name of the law which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities

Answer 15

Section 28

Question 16

Book that prompted the introduction of Section 28

Answer 16

Jenny lives with Erin and Martin

Question 17

Name of the pressure group that threatened the out gay clergy and MPs

Answer 17

Outrage!

Question 18

Percentage increase in the number of babies born to unmarried parents

Answer 18

From 12% in the early 1980s to 30% in the early 1990s

Question 19

Name of the person who led the campaign against the avaliability of contraceptive advice to girls under the age of consent without their parents knowledge

Answer 19

Victoria Gillick

Question 20

Act that was promoted by Mary Whitehouse to make sure that videos had British film classifications attached

Answer 20

Video Recording Act 1994

Question 21

Event that sparked criticism of the monarchy

Answer 21

Fire at Windsor Castle

Question 22

The Queen agreed to …

Answer 22

Pay tax on her private income and a reduction of the civil list

Question 23

Anti-Establishment culture

Answer 23

• Young British Artists
• Charles Saatchi’s exhibit at the Sensation Exhibition

Question 24

Nickname of the 1988 and 1989 summers

Answer 24

Second Summer of Love

Question 25

Government Act which gave police the power to break up free parties

Answer 25

Criminal Justice and Public Order Act

Question 26

Drug that was used in the ‘second summer of love’

Answer 26

Ecstasty

Question 27

Protests against which road development

Answer 27

Twyford Down M3 extension

Question 28

Period of Feminism

Answer 28

Third-Wave Feminism

Question 29

Undergroud movement by female ‘Punk’ bands

Answer 29

Riot Grrrl Movement

Question 30

Band that led the ‘Girl Power’ movement

Answer 30

Spice Girls

Question 31

First female Speaker of the House of Commons

Answer 31

Betty Boothroyd

Question 32

Firest female Head of MI5

Answer 32

Stella Rimmington

Question 33

Percentage of women of working age which were employed

Answer 33

68%

Question 34

Percentage of employees that were women in 1996

Answer 34

50%

Question 35

Percentage of Women’s Pay compared to Men

Answer 35

80%

Question 36

Number of non-White MPs elected in 1987

Answer 36

4

Question 37

Black Conservative Candidate that lost the 1992 General Election

Answer 37

John Taylor

Question 38

Person who was murder in a racist attack in London

Answer 38

Stephen Lawrence

Question 39

Author of the Satanic Verses

Answer 39

Salman Rushdie