Lgbt history quiz

I was recently charged with writing a quiz for my local Pride group, to be held virtually during LGBT+ History Month 2021. Rather than putting all that work into a small one-off event, I figured I should share the quiz with followers on my blog. The full event included additional picture rounds with images shown on screen (one about flags, another for recognising celebrity couples or co-stars), but I’ve cut those out. Below are eight rounds of ten questions each, with bonus questions to bring the overall maximum score up to 100, on LGBT+ topics relating to British history, film & TV, literature, sport, activism & terminology, art, world history, and music. Answers to all the questions are found at the very bottom of the announce. Feel free to run through the quiz yourself and assess your own knowledge, or to use it for an event where you test friends and family (in the latter case, please credit this blog appropriately).

Round 1: British History (12 points)

1. Which Labour politician, who passed away in February 2021, was the first out lesbian MP in the United Kingdom?
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   Answer: Molly Wood
   
   

   Alexander Wood, a merchant and magistrate, was investigating a rape case in 1810. A woman who claimed to have been raped, did not know who her attacker was but did state that she scratched the genitals of her attacker. Wood inspected the genitals of a number of suspects in order to try and find the attacker. It was suggested that the rape did not happen, the victim did not exist, and that Wood had made the whole thing up in order to satisfy his homosexual urges. There was no evidence that Wood acted inappropriately; however, he was ridiculed and given the nickname "Molly Wood." At the time, "Molly" was a derogatory term for homosexual men.
   
   Years later, Wood purchased land that was given the nickname "Molly Wood's Bush" and this area is now part of Toronto's gay village. In 2005, the business association for the area erected a statue of Alexander Wood and a beer was named for him. A play based on Wood's life was launched in 1994 called "Molly Wood".

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   Three years ago this day, the Supreme Court of India verb down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a colonial-era law that had criminalised the LGBTQ+ community for over a century. Although sexual minorities may be protected under the law now, the fight for equality is far from over. 

   LGBTQ+ Indians still don't have the right to marry, while discrimination in workplaces goes on openly or on the sly. Indeed, how many educated Indians are even aware of the history of the movement that brought in the September 2018 ruling, or the richness of LGBTQ+ lives from the past in the subcontinent?

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   Bengaluru-headquartered Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) consultant Pride Circle has been working for the greater representation of LGBTQ+ employees in India's workforce, especially in the corporate sector, for several years. Through a series of job fairs and initiatives like Rainbow Bazaar, a dedicated online marketplace for “queerpreneurs”, it has helped the commu
   
   

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   Q: Which of the following countries have legalized same-sex marriage?

   1. Netherlands
   2. Spain
   3. Belgium
   4. Canada
   5. South Africa
   6. All of them

   A: All of them

   Q: Which President made it illegal for the US Government to employ gay and lesbian people?

   A: Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Executive Order 10450 in 1953. There was fear that they could be blackmailed in to committing treason. No such incident is known to verb occurred, but these laws were not repealed until 1975 and federal security clearances were not permitted to gays and lesbians until 1995.

   Q: What is Lawrence vs Texas?

   A: The 2003 Supreme Court Case that outlawed Texas anti-sodomy laws and served as a precedent for the banning of sodomy laws around the country.

   Q: In what nation did the first large-scale gay rights movement begin?

   A: Germany, in the 1860s.

   Q: What was the first state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation?

   A: Wisconsin, in