Specific Facts 2

Question 1

Who introduced the church courts?

Answer 1

Norman’s

Question 2

When was trial by ordeal abolished?

Answer 2

1215

Question 3

After what year did all unnatural deaths have to be reported to the coroner?

Answer 3

1190

Question 4

What was benefit of the clergy?

Answer 4

People avoiding harsher royal court punishments by reading a passage of the bible

Question 5

What happened to the gunpowder plotters and Guy Fawkes in 1605?

Answer 5

Hung drawn and quartered

Question 6

In the 1560-1600 the number of vagabonds increases from what to what due to the bad harvests of the 1590s

Answer 6

69 to 555

Question 7

What made it difficult for Assize judges to travel around England and enforce law

Answer 7

The civil war

Question 8

The bloody code saw how many crimes punishable by death and when

Answer 8

50 in 1688 to 225 in 1815

Question 9

In 1777 what report did John Howard criticise conditions in prisons

Answer 9

The state of prisons

Question 10

When was fingerprinting first introduced?

Answer 10

1901

Question 11

In what conference was Germany divided in 1945

Answer 11

Potsdam

Question 12

When was Germany formally made two separate countries

Answer 12

1949

Question 13

How much money did the Marshall plan put into West Europe in 1953

Answer 13

$17 billion

Question 14

When was NATO formed?

Answer 14

1949

Question 15

When was the Warsaw Pact formed?

Answer 15

1955

Question 16

Who was executed after the Hungarian uprising

Answer 16

Nagy

Question 17

When was the failed invasion of Cuba (bay of pigs)

Answer 17

1961

Question 18

Who was supported by the CIA and were part of the bay of pigs invasion

Answer 18

La Brigada 2506

Question 19

What event caused the hotline between Washington and Moscow to be set up

Answer 19

Cuban missile crisis

Question 20

What was instigated after the Prague spring in 1968

Answer 20

Brezhnev doctrine

Question 21

SALT || was agreed in 1979 but wasn’t ratified because of what?

Answer 21

The soviet unions invasion of Afghanistan

Question 22

What was the defence program announced by Reagan in 1983

Answer 22

Star Wars

Question 23

What was gorbachevs new thinking?

Answer 23

Perestroika(re-structuring allowing private ownership) Glasnost (openness more freedom)

Question 24

Barons could pay scutage instead of supply knights for the king but what is it?

Answer 24

Paying a tax

Question 25

Who did Richard the 1st defeat at the battle of Arsuf

Answer 25

Saladin

Question 26

What was agreed in the treaty of Jaffa?

Answer 26

Saladin would keep control of Jerusalem but Christians could go there on pilgrimage

Question 27

How was Richards ransom paid for in England?

Answer 27

Aid tax of 25% of moveables

Question 28

Who were the three counts who Richard persuaded to switch from Phillips side to Richards?

Answer 28

Boulogne, Flanders and Toulouse

Question 29

Who did John reward with Bishop of Winchester?

Answer 29

Peter des Roche’s

Question 30

Who did John starve to death when he had them as hostages

Answer 30

Matilda de Briouze and her son

Question 31

What is the battle in which John loses control of Normandy in 1214 after retreating and causing his ally Otto to be defeated

Answer 31

Battle of Bouvines

Question 32

John did not keep the agreements in the Magna Carta so how did he counter this?

Answer 32

Got the pope to annul it

Question 33

Who defeated Prince Louis troops at the battle of Lincoln in 1216

Answer 33

William Marshall

Question 34

When was Martin Luther kings house firebombed by the KKK?

Answer 34

1956

Question 35

The Montgomery improvement association used what ruling to say that bus segregation was in-constitutional?

Answer 35

Brown V Topeka

Question 36

Why were the white citizens councils set up?

Answer 36

To fight Brown V Topeka and to campaign against the NAACP

Question 37

What was signed by the southern politicians to oppose federal interference in segregation?

Answer 37

Southern Manifesto

Question 38

How were the SNCC set up

Answer 38

With a grant from the SCLC

Question 39

Why did Bull Connor give the Birmingham police Mother’s Day off?

Answer 39

So the police didn’t protect the freedom riders From the KKK

Question 40

How many attended the march on Washington in 1963

Answer 40

250,000 people and 80,000 whites

Question 41

Who did JFK appoint as the NAACP federal judge?

Answer 41

Thurgood Marshall

Question 42

Which two athletes made a black power salute in the 1968 Mexico olympics?

Answer 42

Tommy Smith and John Carlos

Question 43

How much damage did the Watts Riots do?

Answer 43

$40 million

Question 44

What was the program | Called which moved Vietnamese from their ancestral burial grounds into fortified villages?

Answer 44

Strategic hamlet project

Question 45

How many military advisors did JFK send to Vietnam?

Answer 45

16,000

Question 46

What percent of south Vietnam had been taken by the Vietcong in 1963?

Answer 46

35%

Question 47

How many US soldiers were sent to Vietnam in 1965?

Answer 47

200,000

Question 48

How did the Vietcong help villagers?

Answer 48

Helped collect the harvest

Question 49

How many Vietnamese were killed for collaborating with the south?

Answer 49

27,000

Question 50

How long did it take to clear Saigon of Vietcong after the Tet offensive?

Answer 50

2 days

Question 51

What were the aims of the attacks on Cambodia and Laos by Nixon in 1970-71

Answer 51

Cut of the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 52

What was the heroin addiction rate of US soldiers

Answer 52

30%

Question 53

How many construction workers took part in the hard hats demonstration in New York?

Answer 53

200

Question 54

When did congress cut funding for the war?

Answer 54

1973