<div style='text-align: center;'><span style='font-size: 24pt;'>Suffragettes</span></div>

Which organisation did Emmeline Pankhurst set up to employ militant tactics - 'Deeds not Words' - in women's quest for equality?

National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies

Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)

Women's Franchise League

Women's Tax Resistance League

Which newspaper coined the term 'Suffragettes' in 1903, distinguishing them from more moderate 'Suffragists'?

The Times

The Telegraph

The Manchester Guardian

The Daily Mail

What did the Women’s Freedom League launch a campaign to boycott?

King's Speech

1911 census

Home front manufacturing

State opening of Parliament 1906

What did the Cat and Mouse Act of 1913 attempt to address?

Prostitution

Pickpocketing

Force Feeding of Suffragettes in prison

Gatherings of Suffragettes

Which prominent suffragette was nicknamed 'The Queen of the Mob'?

Sarah Jane Baines

Leonora Cohen

Christabel Pankhurst

Frances Balfour

How many women gathered at the WSPU rally in Hyde Park on 26 June 1908 to demand the right to vote?

1,500

60,000

200,000

500,000

Which suffragette often disguised herself as Jane Warton, an 'ugly London seamstress', to avoid any of benefits that her family connections might bring?

Lady Constance Lytton

Countess Constance Markievicz

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor

Which businessman was an ally to the suffragette movement?

John Jacob Astor IV

John James Sainsbury

Henry Gordon Selfridge

John Spedan Lewis

Which disparaging insult was NOT commonly used to undermine the suffragettes?

Hysterical

Unladylike

Unnatural

Meek

Which suffragette was fatally wounded when she stepped in front of the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby?

Mary Bell

Norah Elam

Edith Margaret Garrud

Emily Davison

Apart from women's rights, what other cause did Countess Constance Markievicz devote much of her life?

Irish Nationalism

Civil Rights

Socialism

Liberalism

Which male suffragette was arrested at a rally in 1913 for speaking in favour of arson attacks?

George Lansbury MP

Keir Hardie MP

Frederick Pethwick-Lawrence

Thomas Martin Lindsay

Who was the first woman to have a statue in London's Parliament Square?

Millicent Fawcett

Kitty Marion

Marion Wallace Dunlop

Christabel Pankhurst

Who was the first woman to take her seat in Parliament?

Countess Constance Markievicz

Jessie Kenney

Lady Nancy Astor

Lavinia Malcolm

When were (some) women first granted the vote in Britain?

January 1914

February 1918

December 1917

April 1922

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