The People

Question 1

Princess of Wales

Answer 1

Diana, messy divorce, killed in ‘97

Question 2

Homosexuality

Answer 2

not illegal to be gay only illegal to participate in homosexual acts, lesbianism was never recognized by the law (Queen V. never acknowledged it)

Question 3

nuclear family

Answer 3

two adults + 1,8 children, is only around 36% of British families today

Question 4

Sexism: Church of England:

Answer 4

did not permit women deacons until 1987

Question 5

Sexism: institutional:

Answer 5

Politics, legal system, Church of England, there are very few females in Parliament

Question 6

Equal Pay Act 1970 and

Answer 6

Sex Discrimination Act 1975, women still earn less than men

Question 7

ladettes

Answer 7

young women who love binge drinking, exceed males in noise, violence, abuse

Question 8

Case of Wells and Chapman

Answer 8

Two young girls murdered in 2002 by Ian Huntley

Question 9

Bulger case in 1993

Answer 9

two year old boy murdered by eleven year old schoolboys

Question 10

Newcastle accent

Answer 10

Geordie

Question 11

Liverpool dialect

Answer 11

Scouse

Question 12

Birmingham accent

Answer 12

Brummie

Question 13

Cockney accent in London

Answer 13

Estuary English

Question 14

Nomads

Answer 14

members of tribes that move from place to place

Question 15

neolithic

Answer 15

new stone age, build Stonehenge, beginnings of agriculture, 4000 BC

Question 16

Density

Answer 16

number of inhabitants per unit area

Question 17

Merseyside

Answer 17

a metropolitan county in W-England

Question 18

Racism

Answer 18

belief that one’s race is superior, right to rule based on race, English treated Celts as colonial subjects

Question 19

Census

Answer 19

official enumeration of population with details of sex, age, occupation, etc., 1801 census gave figures

Question 20

bypass

Answer 20

road to drive around something, avoid heavy traffic

Question 21

East End

Answer 21

section of East London, poorer part of the city, Jews and Poles in early 20th c.

Question 22

Celtic

Answer 22

lived in Ireland+Scotland when England was under Roman rule

Question 23

Domesday Books

Answer 23

11th c. attempt to evaluate England’s wealth and population, made by William the Conqueror

Question 24

multiculturalism

Answer 24

representing several different cultures, strongly debated issue

Question 25

Green Belt

Answer 25

no buildings permitted

Question 26

naturalization

Answer 26

to adapt to foreign language, place, customs, etc.

Question 27

industrialization

Answer 27

18th and 19th c., from agriculture to manufacturing country

Question 28

National Front

Answer 28

white nationalist party against immigration

Question 29

Huguenots

Answer 29

French protestant in 16th and 17th c. Calvinists driven to England by warfare (political&religious)

Question 30

Iberian

Answer 30

Spanish/Portuguese areas, arrived by sea in Cornwall, Ireland etc. (wayyy b.c.)

Question 31

Anglo-Saxons

Answer 31

habitants of England pre-1055 (pre-Norman conquest)

Question 32

Little Englanders

Answer 32

want little/nothing to do with the EU

Question 33

M. Collins

Answer 33

negotiated peace in 1921, free state of Ireland

Question 34

Nanny state

Answer 34

dependency culture

Question 35

McJobs

Answer 35

low pay, dead end jobs, flipping burgers

Question 36

binge drinking

Answer 36

drunk for many days, Brits drink more than any other European country

Question 37

Lager louts

Answer 37

boys who drink a lot

Question 38

ladettes

Answer 38

girls that party hard, drink a lot, violent

Question 39

etiquette

Answer 39

appropriate social behavior within a social class/group

Question 40

Received Pronunciation (RP)

Answer 40

Standard English accent

Question 41

ageism

Answer 41

people get discriminated when they reach their forties

Question 42

''paedophobia''

Answer 42

fear of young people

Question 43

Emmeline Pankhurst

Answer 43

decided that women do have rights, was leader of the British suffragette movement

Question 44

suffragettes

Answer 44

women who fought for their right to vote

Question 45

youth culture

Answer 45

young people with money