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Arthur Scargill: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: On the appointment of ________ as head of the NCB in 1983, Scargill stated, "The policies of this government are clear - to destroy the coal industry and the NUM".
Margaret ThatcherUnited KingdomIan MacGregorUK miners' strike (1984–1985)

Question 2: In the 2001 general election, he ran against ________ in Hartlepool.
David MilibandPeter MandelsonGordon BrownJack Straw

Question 3: Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, ________, Yorkshire.
Cudworth, South YorkshireSheffieldBarnsleyDoncaster

Question 4: His stand both for the future of the mining industry and the communities dependent on it and against the policies of the ________ Conservative government led to his leadership of the 1984–1985 miners' strike.
Winston ChurchillRonald ReaganHarold MacmillanMargaret Thatcher

Question 5: [6] Scargill had long criticised ________'s Solidarity trade union movement for its promotion of workers rights at the expense of international communism.
PolandGreeceHungaryGermany

Question 6: [3] In 1973, he was instrumental in organising the miners' strike that brought down ________'s Government in March 1974.
Edward HeathWinston ChurchillMargaret ThatcherHarold Macmillan

Question 7: His father, Harold, was a miner and a member of the ________.
Communist Party of BritainNew Communist Party of BritainBritish Socialist PartyCommunist Party of Great Britain
















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