Deck 5: Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Question 1

Northern Ireland's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was comprised almost exclusively of ________ members.

A) Fenian
B) Black and Tans
C) Roman Catholic
D) Protestant

Answer 1

Protestant

Question 2

Both of these men have been elected to the British House of Commons:

A) Michael Collins and William Cosgrave.
B) Francis McCloskey and Eamon de Valera.
C) Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness.
D) Sean Savage and Daniel McCann.

Answer 2

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness.

Question 3

The Continuity IRA is an offshoot of:

A) INLA.
B) UVF.
C) UFF.
D) PIRA.

Answer 3

PIRA.

Question 4

The Ulster Volunteer Force also operates under the name of:

A) Ulster Freedom Fighters.
B) The Red Hand Defenders.
C) Ulster Defense Association.
D) Protestant Action Force.

Question 5

In October 1968 the newly formed ________ organized a march in Londonderry to show its frustration at the discrimination by Protestants.

A) The Orange Order
B) The Finnegan brigade
C) Good Friday Group
D) Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

Question 6

________ is part of Orange Lodge and Protestant culture.

A) Orangeism
B) Burning catholic houses
C) Marching
D) Violent demonstration

Question 7

The hunger strikes ended in October 1981, after which the British government allowed the prisoners to ________.

A) Hold Lodge meetings
B) Receive food parcels
C) Associate with regular prisoners
D) Wear their own clothes

Question 8

The Protestants celebrate their victory over the Catholic King James I at:

A) The Battle of Crumlin Road.
B) The Battle of the Boyne.
C) The Battle of the Somme.
D) The Battle of Culloden.

Question 9

Libya's support of PIRA in the early 1970s is believed to have been to the tune of more than________ in hard currency.

A) $25 million
B) $15 million
C) $3 million
D) $10 million

Question 10

Imam Abu Hamza is firm and outspoken in his support for:

A) Zacarias Moussaoui.
B) Osama bin Laden.
C) The Blind Cleric.
D) Gerry Adams.

Question 11

In one of their more cowardly attacks, the PIRA targeted the British Royal family, and in August 1979, detonated a bomb in a small fishing vessel being operated by:

A) The Duke of York.
B) Lord Louis Mountbatten.
C) The Countess of Moy.
D) The Earl of Berwick.

Question 12

The London Underground bombers of July 7^th 2005 were mostly naturalized citizens of:

A) Yemen.
B) Great Britain.
C) Algeria.
D) Saudi Arabia.

Question 13

In August 2001, the credibility of the PIRA and Sinn Fein was brought into question when ________Security forces arrested PIRA's head of engineering while he was developing mortars.

A) Spanish
B) French
C) Colombian
D) British

Question 14

The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement is a document that addresses:

A) The right of Loyalists to march in celebration of the Battle of the Boyne.
B) Political and social inequalities.
C) Decommissioning.
D) Housing rights for Catholic families in the North.

Question 15

The British government ________ the LVF in 1997.

A) Sectioned
B) Banned
C) Prescribed
D) Proscribed

Question 16

Decommissioning of terrorist weapons has not played a major part in bringing Northern Ireland that much closer to an outbreak of prolonged peace.

Question 17

Gerry Adams has been elected to parliament and sits in the House of Commons.

Question 18

In 1920 the Government of Ireland Act created two separate countries.

Question 19

The IRA has used indiscriminate attacks against a wide variety of targets on the British mainland.

Question 20

The Continuity IRA broke from the PIRA terrorists, seeking a peaceful solution for Northern Ireland.

Question 21

In 1998, the LVF under the auspices of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD), it began to decommission some of its arsenal of weapons.

Question 22

The Black and Tans were formed in the 1920s to attack British troops stationed in Northern Ireland.

Question 23

Sectarian reprisals by Loyalist paramilitaries targeted Catholic families in Belfast and Londonderry.

Question 24

The Orange Volunteers (OV) is a Protestant Loyalist paramilitary with ties to the Orange Order.

Question 25

By the start of the 1970s, the British government had made significant moves to curtail the actions of the paramilitary groups with the introduction of internment.

Question 26

The Diplock Commission was set up to look at ways of dealing with the legal aspects of controlling the threat from Islamic fundamentalists in a free and democratic society.

Question 27

In 2007, Ian Paisley was sworn in at Stormont Castle as Northern Ireland's First Minister, and was photographed alongside the other senior member of the power-sharing executive and his old arch enemy, Martin McGuiness from Sinn Fein.

Question 28

There are many similarities between the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland and the struggle for peace in the Middle East.

Question 29

The British SAS attacked and killed an IRA cell on the island of Gibraltar. None of those killed were found to be carrying weapons.

Question 30

According to British officials, up to 16,000 British Muslims are either actively engaged in or support terrorist activities, while up to 3,000 are estimated to have passed through al Qaeda training camps.