End of Year Quiz

 


THE MILTON KEYNES FAWCETT GROUP END OF YEAR QUIZ 

Season’s greetings! The weather is grim, everything is a bit difficult  and jolliness is in short supply. The only answer is to avert your gaze for a while and have a go at our Milton Keynes Fawcett Group  quiz. There are no prizes and the answers are at the bottom of the page so you can cheat as much as you like. Some questions are ridiculously easy, others less so, and a few are downright bizarre. They were compiled in between the bouts of manic activity that are traditional at this time of year, so apologies in advance for any howling errors.

Thanks for staying with our monthly blogs. We look forward to another year of battling against the patriarchy and hope you will stay with us. Why not think about joining the national Fawcett Society and coming along to the meetings of the Milton Keynes local group? You are very welcome to join us for a taster session. Just drop an email to miltonkeynesfawcettgroup@gmail.com

And now, enjoy the festivities and have a go at our feminist quiz.

A. IN MILTON KEYNES

1) What happened at 4.30pm at the MK Rose on November 25th this year?

2) Who/what does the Electric Sheep in Milton Keynes Theatre commemorate?

3) Which lioness recently appeared on a wall in Newport Pagnell?

4) Who created the equine sculpture in Lloyds Court in Milton Keynes?

5) Dr Marjorie Reid and Dorothy Jell shared a vision for what in Milton Keynes?


B. CONNECTIONS What are the links between these women?

1) Rose Hudson- Wilkins (Dover), Joanne Grenfell (Stepney), Beverley Mason (Warrington)

2) Marin Alsop, Margaret Grazinyte-Tyla, Xian Zhang

3) Sharon Graham, Cristina McAnea, Pat Cullen

4) Lubaina Himid, Susan Phillips, Veronica Ryan

5) Dame Nellie Melba, Anna Pavlova, Queen Charlotte


C. WOMEN’S WORDS. Who said….

1) I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

2) I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

3) I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

4) Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.

5) Those who do not move do not notice their chains.


D. LINKS. Whose name springs to mind here?

1) The asp

2) The wrap dress

3) The spider brooch

4) The Banshees

5) Mississippi Goddam


E. OUTRAGEOUS, BRAVE, INTERESTING? Women who have caused a stir.

1) A professional sharpshooter and friend of Chief Sitting Bull, who appeared in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and sued Randolph Hearst for libel.

2) A black American dancer who ran a nightclub in Paris, spied for the French in WW2 and frequently wore a fur coat with nothing underneath.

3) A politician undergoing cancer treatment who took off her wig, threw it on the table, scratched her scalp and said, ‘This wig irritates me. I don’t have time for messing about. Let’s get this deal done…… boys’.

4) An artist who uses real-life events as inspiration for her work, controversially turning her bed into an art installation.

5) An anti-Kremlin collective of performance artists, jailed in 2014 for proclaiming feminism inside a church. They recently fled Russia disguised as food couriers and have now produced an explicit anti-Putin exhibition in Iceland.



ANSWERS

A.1) White Ribbon Day vigil.2) A bequest from Margaret Powell, a local sheep farmer.3) Leah Williamson. 4) Elizabeth Frink. 5) Willen Hospice.

B. 1) Bishops. 2) Orchestral conductors. 3) Union leaders. 4) Turner Prizewinners 5) Puddings

C. 1) Mary Wollstonecraft. 2) Sojourner Truth. 3) Florence Nightingale. 4) Millicent Fawcett.5) Rosa Luxemburg.

D. 1) Cleopatra. 2) Diane von Furstenberg 3) Baroness Brenda Hale. 4) Siouxsie Sioux. 5) Nina Simone

E. 1) Annie Oakley. 2) Josephine Baker. 3) Mo Mowlam. 4) Tracy Emin. 5) Pussy Riot.


YOUR SCORE

18-25. Clearly a polymath of the highest order. Treat yourself to three mince pies and a sherry

11-17. A solid feminist who deserves at least a slice of cake.

4-10.   Well at least you tried. A few nuts and raisins for you.

0-3.      You obviously have much better things to do than mess about with a daft quiz. And at least you didn’t cheat!


Location: Milton Keynes, UK

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