Who wants to be a Women and Equality Millionaire

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Who wants to be a Women and Equality Millionaire?

• Hosted by Llanedeyrn History Dept

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Confident?
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The Prizes
8 - 16,000 9 - 32,000 10 - 64,000 11 -
125,000 12 - 250,000 13 - 500,000 14 -
1,000,000

• 1 - 100
• 2 - 200
• 3 - 500
• 4 - 1,000
• 5 - 2,000
• 6 - 4,000
• 7 - 8,000

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Lifelines

• Phone a friend
• Ask the audience

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100
Question? Who founded the WSPU?
A Anna Ford
B Christabel Parks
C Emiline Pankhurst
C Emiline Pankhurst
D Margaret Thatcher
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200
Question? Which law made paying men and women
differently for the same job illegal?
A Equal Sex Act
B Equal Pay Act
B Equal Pay Act
C Equal Representation Act
D The Red Rose Act
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500
Question? The 1918 Representation Act allowed
all women over which age to vote?
A 30
A 30
B 20
C 21
D 31
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1,000
Question? Who was Britains first woman M.P.?
A Germaine Greer
B Margaret Thatcher
C Lady Penelope
D Lady Astor
D Lady Astor
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2,000
Question? In which year were all women over 21
allowed to vote (giving women equality with men)?
A 1921
B 1930
C 1928
C 1928
D 1966
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4,000
Question? Who was Britains first woman Prime
Minister?
A Cherie Blair
B Hilary Clinton
C Segolene Royal
D Margaret Thatcher
D Margaret Thatcher
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8,000
Question? Which newspaper nicknamed the WSPU the
Suffragettes?
A The Daily Mail
A The Daily Mail
B The Sun
C Sky News
D The Daily Mirror
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16,000
Question? During which horse race did Emily
Davison run out in front of the Kings horse in
1913?
A The Grand National
B The Oaks
C The Derby
C The Derby
D The St Leger
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32,000
Question? Which law outlawed discrimination
against women at work?
A Equal Pay Act 1970
B Sex Discrimination Act 1975
B Sex Discrimination Act 1975
C The Divorce Act 1969
D The Road Tax Act 1975
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64,000
Question? What body was set up to oversee
complaints about sex discrimination?
A Race Relations Board
B Commission for Equality
C Equality Board
D Equal Opportunities Commission
D Equal Opportunities Commission
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125,000
Question? What opened in 1970 to help married
women get qualifications while bringing up a
family?
A Oxford University
B Open University
B Open University
C Oldham University
D Oakham University
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250,000
Question? What was invented in the 1950s that
would allow women to choose when they wanted a
baby?
A Contraceptive Pill
A Contraceptive Pill
B Headache Tablet
C Strepsils
D Cosmopolitan
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500,000
Question? Which movement was set up to change
traditional attitudes about women and promote
womens rights and equality?
A House husbands
B Womens Lib
B Womens Lib
C The Mothers Union
D The Masons
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1,000,000
Question? What was the name given to the NUWSS
(The National Union of Womens Suffrage
Societies)?
A The Suffragettes
B The Suffragists
B The Suffragists
C The Supremes
D The Suffronettes
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