3.22 British Culture and Society in the 1970s (Social Tensions and Terrorism)

Question 1

In the 1970s, what had inflation reached?

Answer 1

25%

Question 2

How did Bloody Sunday impact relations between Dublin and London?

Answer 2

Deteriorating

Question 3

When was Bloody Sunday?

Answer 3

1972

Question 4

What were Diplock courts?

Answer 4

Criminal courts in Northern Ireland for non-jury trials of specified serious crimes - typically terrorism cases

Question 5

Where did a bomb go off in London in 1974 that killed 1 woman?

Answer 5

Tower of London

Question 6

How many children did the Tower of London bomb in 1974 injure?

Answer 6

41

Question 7

How many did the pub bombings near army barracks in Guildford and Woolich kill?

Answer 7

7

Question 8

How many people were killed and injured by a bombing in Birmingham?

Answer 8

21 killed
162 injured

Question 9

What kind of crime increased in the 1970s?

Answer 9

Violent crime and vandalism

Question 10

What kind of attack received increasing publicity because of feminist protests?

Answer 10

Rape

Question 11

By the end of the 1970s, what was the problem in prisons?

Answer 11

There was serious overcrowding and a risk of prison riots

Question 12

Where did riots break out at the beginning of the 1980s?

Answer 12

St Pauls, Bristol, Brighton, North London, Scarborough

Question 13

The use of which drug reached a peak in the mid-1970s?

Answer 13

Cannabis

Question 14

How many students during the 1970s were estimated to have smoked cannabis?

Answer 14

1/3

Question 15

What happened to harsh penalties for cannabis use in the 1970s?

Answer 15

They relaxed by the end of the decade

Question 16

By 1980, there was a new market for which drug?

Answer 16

Heroin

Question 17

Clashes between the National Front and Trotskyist counter demonstrators led to the death of a demonstrator where?

Answer 17

Red Lion Square in London

Question 18

At the Grunswick picket lines in 1977, how many policemen were injured?

Answer 18

97

Question 19

Where did the National Front deliberately hold a meeting in 1979?

Answer 19

Southall

Question 20

How many police were drafted in to control 3,000 anti-National Front demonstrators in 1979 in Southall?

Answer 20

4,000

Question 21

Who was killed at the anti-National Front demonstration in 1979?

Answer 21

Blair Peach