QUIZ for KIDZ!

1 - How many of the 646 mps (members of parliament) in the British house of commons are female?
a) 323, b) 200 or c)125
2 – How many mps in the UK are from an ethnic minority?
a) – 15, b) 119, c) 35.
3 – In what year were women first allowed the vote in the UK?
a) 1850, b) 1918 or c) 1925
4 - What date is International Women’s Day?
a) 25 December, b) 15 January, c) 8 March
5 – Who in June 1963 became the first woman to go to space?
a) Margaret Thatcher, b) Valentina Tereshkova, c) Mary Flybot
6 – What act made it illegal for a woman to be excluded from a job because of her sex?
a) Sex Discrimination Act, b) Sex Disqualification Removal Act, c) Equal Franchise Act
7 – In the UK, Women working full-time earn on average how much less than men?
a) – 17%, b) – 5%, c) – 33%
8 – How many of the world’s poor are women and girls?
a) 3 out of 10, b) 7 out of 10, c) 10 out of 10
9 – Of the 800 million people in the world who can’t read or write, how many are women?
a) one third, b) two thirds, c) all 800 million
10 – Who were the real ‘witches’, and what did they do?
a) women who used herbs to heal the sick, b) black-hatted women who invented the flying broomstick, c) men who sang karaoke
11 – How many women and children were murdered in total as part of the ‘witch hunts’ between the 14-17th century in Europe?
a) over 700 b) over 7000 C) over 7 million
12 – Which of these statements is in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights?
a) “All human beings should be judged by the United Nations and given rights accordingly, b) “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”, c) “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, unless they have committed a crime”.

Answers: 1- c)125, 2 –a)15 (there are only 2 black female mps, there has never been an asian woman mp), 3 – b)1918 (although this was only for women over 30 who owned houses. It was only in 1928 that all women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote)., 4 – c)8 March., 5 – b) Valentina Tereshkova, 6 – b) Sex Disqualification Removal Act which was passed in 1919, 7- a) 17% (women working part-time earn on average 36% less than men), 8- b) 7 out of 10 (study by World food programme), 9 – b) over two thirds. 10 – a) witches were real women who healed people in villages using herbs and other natural medicinal practises. 11 – c) a shocking 9 million people (85% women and kids) were probably burned at the stake for ‘witchcraft’. 12 – b) although this statement is ideological, and in real life not everybody is treated with dignity and have rights, especially women and kids.