Dull Test/ Fun Quiz

Question 1

Duty on tea before commutation act

Answer 1

119%

Question 2

Duty on tea after Commutation Act

Answer 2

25%

Question 3

What was the name of the trade agreement with France?

Answer 3

The Eden Treaty

Question 4

What centralised the collection of revenue in 1787?

Answer 4

The Consolidated Fund

Question 5

Which act aimed to make smuggling harder by searching out at sea?

Answer 5

The Hovering Act

Question 6

What had been in operation since 1716, but Pitt protected from frequent raids?

Answer 6

The Sinking Fund

Question 7

What tax was introduced in 1785 but withdrawn as a failure?

Answer 7

Shops

Question 8

Which leading Whig ceased to oppose Pitt in 1794?

Answer 8

Portland

Question 9

What was the size of the national debt when Pitt took office?

Answer 9

£250 million

Question 10

What percentage of good were smuggled into Britain when Pitt took office?

Answer 10

20%

Question 11

What British thing rose from 12.5 million in 1782 to 20million by 1790?

Answer 11

Exports

Question 12

By how much did Pitt reduce the national debt?

Answer 12

£10 million

Question 13

Which revolutionary society began in 1788 to commemorate the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 13

The Revolution Society

Question 14

Which shoemaker was a leading figure of the LCS?

Answer 14

Thomas Hardy

Question 15

In 1795 where were there demonstrations of around 100,000?

Answer 15

Copenhagen Fields

Question 16

Where was the naval mutiny in 1797?

Answer 16

Spithead, Nore

Question 17

Which act was passed to prevent French radicals from entering Britain?

Answer 17

The Aliens Act

Question 18

When was the Habeus Corpus first suspended?

Answer 18

1794

Question 19

Which act aimed to discourage mass meetings?

Answer 19

The Seditious Meetings Act?

Question 20

Which act aimed to discourage the sale of radical newspapers?

Answer 20

Stamp Duty Act

Question 21

When was the Unlawful Oaths passed?

Answer 21

1797

Question 22

What did the Combinations Act of 1799 criminalise?

Answer 22

Trade unions

Question 23

What was attacked in Oct 1795?

Answer 23

The King’s carriage

Question 24

Which Whig condemned the French Revolution from the start?

Answer 24

Burke

Question 25

Who wrote ‘The Rights Of Man’ in support of the French Revolution?

Answer 25

Thomas Paine

Question 26

Who wrote cheap repository tracts in support of King and government against radical ideas?

Answer 26

Hannah More

Question 27

Which Whig revolutionary group campaigned for reform in 1792?

Answer 27

The Society Of The Friends Of The People

Question 28

What were the acts of 1795 nicknamed?

Answer 28

The ‘Gag Acts’

Question 29

How many Whigs who supported Fox lost their seats on the 1784 election?

Answer 29

100, approx.

Question 30

The date that Pitt the younger became PM

Answer 30

19th December 1783