Britain Since 1945
Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a:
In 1970, Margaret Thatcher became a cabinet minister as the Secretary of State for which department?
When was the first time in the General Election in the UK that no political party won an overall majority since February 1974?
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving UK Prime Minister of the 20th century.
In May 2010, which two parties formed a coalition government in the UK?
In 1953, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule?
Who became Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher and helped initiate the Northern Ireland peace process?
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
The jet engine and radar were invented in Britain during the 1830s.
Who invented the Turing machine, a theoretical mathematical device?
In May 2010, David Cameron became Prime Minister of the UK after:
Which of the following was a key achievement of Clement Attlee’s government (1945-1951)?
When did John Logie Baird make the first television broadcast between London and Glasgow?
Throughout the 1990s, Britain played a leading role in coalition forces involved in which two major conflicts?
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK?
Who was the inventor of the World Wide Web?
When did Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft, first fly?
During her premiership, whom did Margaret Thatcher closely work with?
How many people lost their lives in the violence of Northern Ireland after 1969?
Which Scottish physician and researcher was the co-discoverer of insulin?
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
Some 1,000 people lost their lives in the decades after 1969 in the violence of Northern Ireland.
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft, was jointly developed by Britain and Germany.
After Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007, who took over the role?
Textile and engineering firms in the UK found workers from which TWO countries after the Second World War?
In which year was Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft, retired from service?
What was the Beveridge Report of 1942 about?
Who led the Conservative government from 1979 to 1990?
Which political party, led by Tony Blair, won the UK general election in 1997?
What is William Beveridge best known for?
What was the decade of the 1960s known as?
Who led the team that successfully cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996?
Which of the following is a British invention of the 20th century?
Who developed the jet engine in Britain in the 1930s?
What did the Butler Education Act 1944 introduce?
What British discovery influenced the evolution of computer science and the modern computer?
Who invented the hovercraft in the 1950s?
When did Alan Turing invented the Turing machine?
In 1948, who led the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK?
When did British combat troops leave Iraq after being involved in the conflict following the 2003 invasion?
Over the next 20 years after 1947, which regions gained independence?
Who invented the cash-dispensing ATM in the 1960s?
Who developed radar, proposing that enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves?
In the 1960s, which social laws were liberalised in England, Wales, and Scotland?
Who was Dylan Thomas?
Which two countries built the Concorde, the world's only supersonic passenger plane?
When was Margaret Thatcher elected as a Conservative MP?
When did Britain and France develop the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner?
When did Richard Austen Butler become a Conservative MP?
Which British pop bands from the 1960s continue to have an influence on music both in the UK and abroad?
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
British scientists were the first to successfully clone a mammal.
What laws did Parliament pass in the 1960s regarding women’s rights?
Who pioneered IVF therapy for the treatment of infertility in Britain?
When did the post-war economic boom come to an end?
Who was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1945 to 1951?
Which of the following is not a British invention?
In 1982, which British overseas territory was invaded by Argentina?
The decade of the 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties", was a period of growth in:
Which of the following Prime Ministers made structural changes to the economy through the privatisation of nationalised industries and imposed legal controls on trade union powers?
Which of the following are best-known works of Roald Dahl?
Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
The term ‘Swinging Sixties’ refers to the 1860s.
Which of the following are the 20th century British inventions?
When did Concorde begin carrying passengers?
Who developed the jet engine in Britain in the 1930s?
Which aircraft, capable of taking off vertically, was designed and developed in the UK?
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