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Question 1 - The largest ethnic minority group in Britain
is?
a. Indian
b. Caribbean
c. Jewish
d. Irish
e. Chinese
Question 2 - In 1787, London's Black Population was?
a. 2 million
b. 20,000
c. 200,000
d. 2,000
e. 200
Question 3 - Where is Britain's oldest Mosque?
a. Cardiff
b. Liverpool
c. Wapping
d. Wakefield
e. Woking
Question 4 - What is the percentage of all refugees in
the world living in Britain in the year 2004?
a. 0.4%
b. 1.7%
c. 5.2%
d. 8.5%
e. 11.1%
Question 5 - How many British Asians have signed professionally
with English premier league football clubs?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 4
d. 7
e. 11
Question 6 - The first woman to study law in Britain
was?
a. merican
b. English
c. Indian
d. Irish
e. Jamaican
Question 7 - Which of these writers is English?
a. Henry James
b. DH Lawrence
c. Margaret Atwood
d. Sylvia Plath
e. George Bernard Shaw
Question 8 - Fish and Chips was first served in Oldham
in 1870. When did curry first appear on the menu of a
London Restaurant?
a. 1923
b. 1873
c. 1823
d. 1773
e. 1723
Question 9 - Jewish people have lived in Britain since
the??
a. Norman Conquest
b. English Civil War
c. French Revolution
d. First World War
e. Six-Day War
Question 10 - Which language has the word 'tea' come
from?
a. Swahili
b. Nepali
c. Hindi
d. Chinese
e. Japanese
Question 11 - The total population of the UK is roughly
55 million. How large is the Black population (African
and Asian Groups 1991 Census)
a. 3 Million
b. 4.1 Million
c. 5.8 Million
d. 6.4 Million
e. 7.4 Million
Question 12 - What percentage of Black people are born
in Britain.
a. 20%
b. 30%
c. 40%
d. 50%
e. 60%
Question 13 - Who said, when speaking about the need
for repatriation due to the influx of black people to
Britain,'of which kind of people there are already too
many here?'
a. Harold Wilson
b. Enoch Powell
c. Elizabeth 1
d. David Blunkett
e. Margaret Thatcher
Question 14 - Roughly how many black soldiers of Caribbean
origin died fighting for the Allies during World War II
?
a. 3,000
b. 5,000
c. 10,000
d. 15,000
e. 20,000
Question 15 - In which decade were the first major Race
Riots in Britain?
a. 40's
b. 50's
c. 60's
d. 70's
e. 80's
Question 16 - What is the name of the black woman who
nursed cholera victims in the Crimean War and of whom
it was written in The Times in September 1848
'She was present at many battles and at the risk of her
own life carried the wounded off the battle field.'
Question 17
How long have Black people lived in Britain?
a. Elizabethan Times
b. Civil War
c. Roman Conquest
d. 18th Century
e. 19th Century
Question 18 - It is not against the law to discriminate
if you do so unintentionally?
True
False
Question 19
There are jobs where the employer can lawfully specify
the race of the applicant?
True
False
Question 1
The largest ethnic minority group in Britain is Irish.
At the 1991 census 245,000 people (0.45% of Britain's
population) said they were born in Northern Ireland and
592,000 (1.8% of Britain's population) said they were
born in the Irish Republic. If their children are included,
researchers estimate that they form 4.6% of Britain's
population and as much as 11.5% of the population of Greater
London.
Question 2
In 1787, London's black population was 20,000. Most came
form slaves belonging to a ship captains and plantation
owners. Others arrived as stowaways, escaping the brutalities
of plantation life. A small number came after the American
War of Independence because they had been promised freedom
if they fought for Britain during the war.
Question 3
Britain's oldest existing Mosque is the Shah Jehan Mosque
in Woking. It was built to cater for the needs of students
attending the nearby Oriental Institute at Maybury. It
was designed by W.L. Chambers using Indian precedents
and opened in 1889.
The first record of a Mosque in Britain is 2 Glyn Rhondda
Street Cardiff, which was mentioned in the register of
religious sites in 1860.
In Liverpool, William Henry Quilliam (Sheikh Abdullah
Quilliam) led a small Muslim Community in 1887. They rented
a house in 1891 at 8 Broughton Terrace West Derby Road
to serve as a prayer hall.
Question 4
Public perception is that 23% of all refugees and asylum
seekers are in the UK The answer is 1.7%. In relation
to the EEC Britain is 10th in terms of numbers and Worldwide
Britain ranks 32nd.
Question 5
The answer is 4. Harpal Singh at Leeds United and Micheal
Chopra at Derby County. West Ham have Anwar Uddin in the
Youth team and Bhaichang Bhutia plays for Bury. There
are 70 Asians in football academies around the country
and 12 signed to centers of excellence at English League
Clubs. See www.kickitout.org for further info. on positive
action for race equality in football.
Question 6
Her name was Cornelia Sorabjee and she was a Parsi Christian
from India. Cornelia graduated in Civil Law at Oxford
1894 but was only called to the English Bar in 1923.
Question 7
DH Lawrence was born in Nottingham in 1885. George Bernard
Shaw, music cirtic, playwright and Fabian Society Socialist
was born in Dublin 1856. Sylvia Plath was born in Massachusetts
USA. She came to Cambridge in 1955 and married the Poet
Ted Hughes. Margaret Atwood is Canadian and was born in
Ottawa in 1939. Henry James was from New York USA.
Question 8
Curry was added to the menu of the Norris Street Coffee
House in London's Haymarket in 1773, probably to cater
for growing numbers of East India Company Officers who
developed a taste for it during their stint in India.
Fish and Chips were brought to the UK by 17th Century
Jews expelled from Portugal.
Question 9
Jews have lived in Britain since the Norman Conquest.
At its peak this early population of Jews has been put
at around 5,000 (or 0.025% of the estimated population
of England). However in 1290 they were all expelled. It
was another 366 years before Oliver Cromwell agreed to
're-admit' Jews
Question 10
The word 'tea' derives from the early Chinese dialect
words such as Tchai, Cha and Tay. These were used to describe
the beverage and the leaf. It is said that the Arabs brought
tea to Europe via the Venetians in1559. However,the Portuguese
and the Dutch also claim credit. Ships importing tea reached
Britain in 1637 and Thomas Garvey was one of the first
merchants to trade tea in Britain. He offered it in dry
and liquid form at his Coffee House in Exchange Ally in
the City of London and held Britain's first public tea
sale in 1657.
Question 11
3 million
Question 12
40%
Question 13
Elizabeth I
Question 14
20,000
Question 15
1950's
Question 16
Mary Seacole came form a wealthy Asian family and she
paid to attend nursing school. Then she self funded her
nursing stations and field hospitals. In fact Many record
show that she actually did more field work and nursing
work than Florence Nightingale who was more administration
based.
Question 17
There are records of a Black Cohort of Soldiers stationed
on Hadrian's Wall at the time of the Roman Conquest. Roman
soldiers came from all over the known world including
many parts of Africa. It is likely that other black soldiers
came to Britain during the time of the Romans.
Question 18
False
Question 19
True
