Test Your Knowledge

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1. In which year was universal suffrage achieved in the UK?

2. In which year did Martin Luther King make his famous “I have a dream” speech?

3. In which year was the last of the discriminatory (apartheid) laws removed in South Africa?

4. How many countries still treat homosexuality as a criminal act?

5. How many countries have high levels of restriction on religious practices?

6. Which ethnic minorities were persecuted by the Nazis?

7. How many countries still have laws which discriminate against women?

8. Who is pictured below left?

9. In which year was Marmite invented?

10. How many letter tiles are there in a game of Scrabble?

11. Simone de Beauvoir published a book in 1949 which was banned by the Vatican, what was it’s title?

12. Which Monty Python film, released in 1979, was banned in Ireland, Norway, Singapore, South Africa and Chile?

13. Who coined the phrase “Big Brother is watching you”?

14. What is now housed in the property that used to house the infamous Bedlam mental hospital?

15. Who is pictured below right?

16. If the hat associated with Sherlock Holmes is a deerstalker, what is the hat associated with Robin Hood?