Comp 1C: Trainspotting context

Question 1

What is the ‘Scottish effect’?

Answer 1

15% mortality rate - this is the annual death rate. This is high for a Western country.

Question 2

What is Poll Tax?

Answer 2

A tax on each individual - financial situation was not taken into consideration - the electoral register fell.

Question 3

Where was Poll tax first introduced?

Answer 3

Scotland in 1989

Question 4

What did Irvine Welsh say famously about why there was a significant drug problem in Scotland?

Answer 4

‘The Government created the demand’

Question 5

When did mass unemployment reach its peak under Thatcher?

Answer 5

3.6 million - 1983

Question 6

Who produced the world’s most opiate drugs in the 1980s?

Answer 6

Edinburgh

Question 7

Where was named HIV capital of Europe in the 1980s?

Answer 7

Edinburgh

Question 8

What political ideology grew under Margaret Thatcher?

Answer 8

Capitalism

Question 9

What years was Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister?

Answer 9

1979-1990

Question 10

What Thatcher policy led to a rapid increase in unemployment, particularly in men?

Answer 10

Privatisation of traditional male industries and closure of coal mines.

Question 11

What is the Trainspotting generation?

Answer 11

Individuals who got hooked on heroin in 80s and 90s.