Chelmsford TUC
Quiz Time & Fairtrade Games
A Woman’s Quiz For Everyone
Question 1 - When is International Women’s Day?
(A) 25th December
(B) 1st May
(C) 8th March
(D) 12th March
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Question 2 - In what year did the UN adopt a resolution proclaiming a UN Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace?
(A) 1960
(B) 1977
(C) 1985
(D) 1993
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Question 3 - In 2001 and 2002 where did women celebrate International Women’s Day by imposing a night curfew on men and dancing in the streets?
(A) Paris
(B) Rio de Janeiro
(C) Melbourne
(D) Bogota
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Question 4 - Women, 50% of the world’s population, do what percentage of the world’s work?
(A) 50%
(B) 67%
(C) 25%
(D) 75%
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Question 5 - Women earn what percentage of the world’s income?
(A) 10%
(B) 20%
(C) 50%
(D) 33%
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Question 6 - How do women’s wages compare to men’s?
(A) 10-20% lower
(B) 20-30% lower
(C) the same
(D) 30-40% lower
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Question 7 - Of the 1.3 billion living in absolute poverty, what percentage are women?
(A) 70%
(B) 60%
(C) 50%
(D) 80%
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Question 8. In the 1997 UK General Election, 137 (17%) of the 630 MPs elected were women. How did this compare to the previous Parliament?
(A) Half
(B) Double
(C) Same
(D) 30% increase
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Question 9 - The Equal Pay Act came into force in which year?
(A) 1971
(B) 1977
(C) 1984
(D) 1997
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Question 10 - All women over 21 won the right to vote in the UK in?
(A) 1917
(B) 1928
(C) 1945
(D) 1947
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Question 11 - Sexual harassment in the workplace became a crime in?
(A) 1949
(B) 1974
(C) 1984
(D) 1992
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Question 12 - The first woman was elected to the UK Cabinet in?
(A) 1922
(B) 1929
(C) 1947
(D) 1974
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Question 13 - When did Parliament permit the Church of England to allow women to become priests?
(A) 1993
(B) 1995
(C) 1999
(D) 2000
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Question 14 - The first black woman MP was elected to the UK Parliament in?
(A) 1922
(B) 1943
(C) 1974
(D) 1987
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Question 15 - The first refuge was set up for women fleeing domestic violence during?
(A) 1966
(B) 1971
(C) 1981
(D) 1983
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Question 16 - Who established the Notting Hill Carnival?
(A) Barbara Castle
(B) Claudia Jones
(C) Shirley Williams
(D) Margaret Beckett
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