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Britain Since 1945

Question 1 of 63

Who developed the jet engine in Britain in the 1930s?

Question 2 of 63

Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
The jet engine and radar were invented in Britain during the 1830s.

Question 3 of 63

What is William Beveridge best known for?

Question 4 of 63

What was the Beveridge Report of 1942 about?

Question 5 of 63

Who led the team that successfully cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996?

Question 6 of 63

Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a:

Question 7 of 63

In 1970, Margaret Thatcher became a cabinet minister as the Secretary of State for which department?

Question 8 of 63

Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving UK Prime Minister of the 20th century.

Question 9 of 63

How many people lost their lives in the violence of Northern Ireland after 1969?

Question 10 of 63

When did the post-war economic boom come to an end?

Question 11 of 63

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.

Question 12 of 63

Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
British scientists were the first to successfully clone a mammal.

Question 13 of 63

When was the first time in the General Election in the UK that no political party won an overall majority since February 1974?

Question 14 of 63

In May 2010, which two parties formed a coalition government in the UK?

Question 15 of 63

In May 2010, David Cameron became Prime Minister of the UK after:

Question 16 of 63

When did British combat troops leave Iraq after being involved in the conflict following the 2003 invasion?

Question 17 of 63

Throughout the 1990s, Britain played a leading role in coalition forces involved in which two major conflicts?

Question 18 of 63

After Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister in 2007, who took over the role?

Question 19 of 63

When was Margaret Thatcher elected as a Conservative MP?

Question 20 of 63

When did Richard Austen Butler become a Conservative MP?

Question 21 of 63

What did the Butler Education Act 1944 introduce?

Question 22 of 63

Which of the following are best-known works of Roald Dahl?

Question 23 of 63

What was the decade of the 1960s known as?

Question 24 of 63

Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
The term ‘Swinging Sixties’ refers to the 1860s.

Question 25 of 63

Who was Dylan Thomas?

Question 26 of 63

Textile and engineering firms in the UK found workers from which TWO countries after the Second World War?

Question 27 of 63

Which of the following is a British invention of the 20th century?

Question 28 of 63

During her premiership, whom did Margaret Thatcher closely work with?

Question 29 of 63

Which of the following is not a British invention?

Question 30 of 63

Which political party, led by Tony Blair, won the UK general election in 1997?

Question 31 of 63

When did Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft, first fly?

Question 32 of 63

When did Concorde begin carrying passengers?

Question 33 of 63

In which year was Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft, retired from service?

Question 34 of 63

What British discovery influenced the evolution of computer science and the modern computer?

Question 35 of 63

Is the following statement TRUE or FALSE?
Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft, was jointly developed by Britain and Germany.

Question 36 of 63

Which of the following are the 20th century British inventions?

Question 37 of 63

Who developed the jet engine in Britain in the 1930s?

Question 38 of 63

Who was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK?

Question 39 of 63

The decade of the 1960s, known as the "Swinging Sixties", was a period of growth in:

Question 40 of 63

In 1948, who led the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK?

Question 41 of 63

Who was the inventor of the World Wide Web?

Question 42 of 63

Who led the Conservative government from 1979 to 1990?

Question 43 of 63

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?

Question 44 of 63

Which two countries built the Concorde, the world's only supersonic passenger plane?

Question 45 of 63

Over the next 20 years after 1947, which regions gained independence?

Question 46 of 63

Who was the Prime Minister of the UK from 1945 to 1951?

Question 47 of 63

Which of the following was a key achievement of Clement Attlee’s government (1945-1951)?

Question 48 of 63

Who invented the hovercraft in the 1950s?

Question 49 of 63

In 1982, which British overseas territory was invaded by Argentina?

Question 50 of 63

In the 1960s, which social laws were liberalised in England, Wales, and Scotland?

Question 51 of 63

Who developed radar, proposing that enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves?

Question 52 of 63

Who became Prime Minister after Margaret Thatcher and helped initiate the Northern Ireland peace process?

Question 53 of 63

When did Britain and France develop the world’s only supersonic commercial airliner?

Question 54 of 63

When did John Logie Baird make the first television broadcast between London and Glasgow?

Question 55 of 63

What laws did Parliament pass in the 1960s regarding women’s rights?

Question 56 of 63

Which Scottish physician and researcher was the co-discoverer of insulin?

Question 57 of 63

Which British pop bands from the 1960s continue to have an influence on music both in the UK and abroad?

Question 58 of 63

In 1953, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule?

Question 59 of 63

Who invented the Turing machine, a theoretical mathematical device?

Question 60 of 63

When did Alan Turing invented the Turing machine?

Question 61 of 63

Which aircraft, capable of taking off vertically, was designed and developed in the UK?

Question 62 of 63

Who invented the cash-dispensing ATM in the 1960s?

Question 63 of 63

Who pioneered IVF therapy for the treatment of infertility in Britain?