Date: May 23rd
Category: Interactive | History Quiz | Weekend Fun
You’ve marched through May with the rebels, radicals, and rabble-rousers of history. You’ve read their letters, walked their trails, stitched their slogans, and smashed a few metaphors along the way.
But how much of it have you truly absorbed?
Today, The Time Traveller’s Guild challenges you to put your protest knowledge to the test in our Great Resistance Quiz — part Bank Holiday brain-teaser, part historical proving ground.
Grab a pen, pour a brew, and get ready to earn your place in the pantheon of protest.
🧩 Round 1: Know Your Rebels
1. Who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain around 60 AD, famously burning Londinium to the ground?
a) Cartimandua
b) Boudica
c) Emmeline Pankhurst
d) Cersei Lannister
2. The phrase “Deeds not words” was the rallying cry of which movement?
a) The Diggers
b) The Luddites
c) The WSPU (Suffragettes)
d) The Chartists
3. What colour combination symbolised the women’s suffrage movement in Edwardian Britain?
a) Red, white, blue
b) Black, silver, teal
c) Purple, white, green
d) Gold, navy, cream
4. Which 20th-century resistance heroine worked as a wireless operator in occupied France under the codename “Madeleine”?
a) Odette Sansom
b) Noor Inayat Khan
c) Violette Szabo
d) Vera Atkins
đź“– Round 2: Pamphlets, Posters, & Propaganda
5. Which of these slogans was famously used by Thomas Paine in Common Sense?
a) “No taxation without representation”
b) “Join or die”
c) “These are the times that try men’s souls”
d) “Eat the rich”
6. What was the name of the 20th-century travel guide used by Black American travellers to avoid segregated establishments?
a) The Liberty Ledger
b) The Black Road Atlas
c) The Green Book
d) The Safe Stop Guide
7. Which symbol is associated with the Luddites?
a) A spinning wheel
b) A hammer
c) A red flag
d) A pair of scissors
8. The radical artist and nun Sister Corita Kent is best known for which form of protest art?
a) Woodcuts
b) Cross-stitch
c) Screen-printed posters
d) Chain mail
🎠Round 3: Rebellious Culture
9. Which 1966 film about Algerian independence was praised for its realistic portrayal of colonial resistance?
a) The Battle of Algiers
b) Z
c) Gillo’s Gambit
d) Casablanca
10. “We Shall Overcome” became the anthem of which global movement?
a) The anti-apartheid movement
b) The LGBTQ+ liberation movement
c) The American Civil Rights Movement
d) The Paris Commune
11. The 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs were punished for organising what kind of resistance group?
a) A political party
b) A religious reform circle
c) A trade union
d) A revolutionary militia
12. Which protest poster artist created iconic imagery for the Black Panther Party?
a) Barbara Kruger
b) Emory Douglas
c) Banksy
d) Corita Kent
🧮 How Did You Do?
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