LiberTeas Quiz
Information for the Quiz Master
Before you start the quiz, ask the group to get in to teams and hand out copies of the
answer sheets for people to record their answers. You may want to hand out the answer
pages for round 5 (Match the Quotes) and round 6 (Picture Round) as they come up, to stop
teams from filling in their answers for those rounds early!
If you’d like to add more rounds to this quiz you may want to make your own picture round
of local people of note related to rights and freedoms, or a music round with clips of songs
ready to play.
Introduce your quiz by reminding people that Monday 15 June marks the 800th anniversary
of the sealing of Magna Carta, the document that laid the foundations for the rights and
representation that we enjoy today. The LiberTeas quiz will test your rights and freedoms
knowledge!
Each question in rounds 1 to 3 is worth one point, and rounds 4 and 5 are both worth 6
points each (total of 42 points available).
If you have a prize on offer mention it now to get people in the competitive mind-set – it
could be a small token prize with a tea theme, such as a mug or a box of homemade
cupcakes.
ROUND 1 – MAGNA CARTA AND SIMON DE MONTFORT
1. What is Magna Carta?
a) A document that limited the power of the monarch
b) A document that gave the monarch power over everyone else
c) A big map
2. Which King sealed Magna Carta?
a) King Henry
b) King John
c) King George
3. Which language was Magna Carta written in?
a) Latin
b) French
c) English
4. How many surviving copies of Magna Carta are there?
a) Three
b) Four
c) Five
5. Which one of these clauses was not in the original Magna Carta?
a) No widow shall be compelled to re-marry.
b) Heirs may be given in marriage, but not to someone of lower social standing.
c) All criminal trials should be held in front of a jury of 12 men.
6. Simon de Montfort’s parliament was held 750 years ago this year - what did this important
parliament do for the first time?
a) Allow people to vote
b) Call landowners from towns and shires together
c) Call representatives from towns and shires together
7. What did Simon de Montfort’s parliament begin to shape?
a) The House of Commons as we know it today
b) The House of Lords as we know it today
c) Both of the above
8. Where was Simon de Montfort from?
a) England
b) Germany
c) France
9. Who did Simon de Montfort marry?
a) King Henry III’s mother
b) King Henry III’s sister
c) King Henry III’s maid
10. At which battle was Simon de Montfort defeated?
a) Battle of Evesham
b) Battle of Lewes
c) Battle of Runnymede
ROUND 2 – OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
11. What is Nancy Astor famous for being?
a) The first woman to vote
b) The first woman MP to take her seat
c) The first ever woman MP
12. In 1689 the Bill of Rights was passed to limit the rights of the monarch and set out the rights of
Parliament. Which of the following was not a provision of the bill:
a) Freedom of speech within Parliament
b) Parliament will sit regularly
c) Laws can be passed and amended without the consent of Parliament
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13. Who was the original leader of the Suffragettes?
a) Emily Wilding-Davison
b) Emmeline Pankhurst
c) Millicent Fawcett
14. The 1918 Representation of the People Act gave the vote to all men over the age of 21, and
women over the age of 30, if they were what?
a) A Property owner
b) A mother
c) Married
15. In 1965 what was the first legislation in the United Kingdom to address racial discrimination?
a) Race Act
b) Racial Discrimination Act
c) Race Relations Act
16. Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister in 1979, how long was she Prime
Minister for?
a) 9 years
b) 11 years
c) 12 years
17. Which House in the UK Parliament first televised their debates?
a) House of Lords
b) House of Commons
c) Both in the same year
18. The 1833 Factory Act prevented the employment of children aged…?
a) Under nine
b) Under 12
c) Under 16
19. In 1834 the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ from Dorset were prosecuted after campaigning for better
wages, what was their sentence?
a) A fine of £100
b) Sent to the Poor House
c) Sent to Australia
20. The Levellers and other groups argued for more people to have the right to vote at debates
known as the…?
a) Fulham Debates
b) Waterloo Debates
c) Putney Debates
ROUND 3 – GUESS THE YEAR
21. In which year did the construction of Westminster Hall begin, under the orders of William II of
England (William Rufus)?
a) 1097
b) 1297
c) 1897
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22. In which year was the Act to abolish the Slave Trade passed?
a) 1805
b) 1807
c) 1905
23. In which year was the Great Reform Act, which redistributed parliamentary seats, passed?
a) 1732
b) 1832
c) 1932
24. The act that made same sex marriage legal in the UK was passed in which year?
a) 2012
b) 2013
c) 2014
25. In which year were some powers devolved from Westminster to Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland?
a) 1990
b) 1996
c) 1998
26. In which year did Charles I agree to the Petition of Right?
a) 1627
b) 1628
c) 1629
27. In which year was the Disability Discrimination Act passed?
a) 1985
b) 1990
c) 1995
28. In which year was The Ballot Act, which made voting in secret law for the first time, passed?
a) 1700
b) 1872
c) 1899
29. In which year was the House of Lords Reform Act, ending the right of most hereditary peers to
sit and vote in the House of Lords, passed?
a) 1980
b) 1999
c) 2009
30. In which year was The People’s Charter, which demanded voting rights for every man over 21,
published?
a) 1738
b) 1838
c) 1938
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ROUND 4 – MATCH THE QUOTES
* EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS A TIME LIMIT TO THIS ROUND – YOU CAN SET YOUR OWN LIMIT, WE
SUGGEST FIVE OR TEN MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE GROUP. *
31. Below are a selection of quotes from a range of powerful speeches about freedoms and rights.
Can you match up the quote with the correct speech from the list?
Quotes
1. ‘No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her
consent.’
2. ‘It is not power that corrupts but fear.’
3. ‘The sight of freedom looming on the horizon should encourage us to redouble our efforts.’
4. ‘One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world’
5. ‘I have a dream today!’
6. ‘In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by nonviolence, there will be
equal freedom for all.’
Speeches
a) Mahatma Gandhi - The ‘Quit India’ speeches
b) Malala Yousafzai - Speech to the UN assembly about access to education
c) Martin Luther King – ‘I have a Dream’
d) Nelson Mandela - Address in Cape Town on his release from prison
e) Emmeline Pankhurst – ‘Freedom or Death’
f) Aung San Suu Kyi – ‘Freedom from fear’
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ROUND 5 – PICTURE ROUND
* EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS A TIME LIMIT TO THIS ROUND – YOU CAN SET YOUR OWN LIMIT, WE
SUGGEST FIVE OR TEN MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE GROUP *
32. The House of Commons chamber is where rights are discussed and laws are made. Take a look at
the image below – can you identify what the missing items are?
Name the missing items:
A:……………………………………………..
D: ……………………………………………..
B:……………………………………………..
E: ……………………………………………..
C:……………………………………………..
F: ……………………………………………..
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