HERITAGE QUIZ

Newsflash: Heritage Chronicles

22/02/2008

Heritage trail to International Slavery Museum Liverpool

Welcome to the International Slavery Museum Quiz. You must answer all the questions below and click submit to view your score.

1. How were the Taino people eventually wiped out?

(A)

Disease, war, forced labour

(B)

Earthquakes & famine

(C)

Redundancy & poverty

2. When did the Portuguese start growing sugar in Brazil?

(A)

1540

(B)

1640

(C)

1740

3. Which other materials entered the plantation system after 'King' Sugar?

(A)

Nylon, wood, mercury

(B)

Cotton, coffee, tobacco

(C)

paper, vegetables, flowers

4. The Liverpool merchant William Davenport traded what goods (25%-50%) of his cargo to Cameroon in the 1770's?

(A)

Glass beads

(B)

Range rovers

(C)

Cowrie shells

5. Who was the biggest shareholder in the RAC - Royal African Company (RAC held the monopoly in The Transatlantic Slave Trade until 1698 and remained active until 1750)?

(A)

Queen Victoria

(B)

Oliver Cromwell

(C)

Duke of York (James 11)

6. On the Liverpool ship called Lord Stanley, in march 1786, 250 enslaved Africans were taken from Cameroon to Barbados how many died during the voyage?

(A)

50

(B)

60

(C)

79

7. What percentage was generated towards Liverpool's wealth from the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

(A)

90%

(B)

40%

(C)

5%

8. By the 1740's Liverpool over took which TWO other major slaving ports?

(A)

Leicester

(B)

Dublin

(C)

London

9. How many were transported into slavery by Liverpool slaving voyages (making it the European capital of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by the 1780's)?

(A)

900,000

(B)

1.5million

(C)

2.7million

10. Who was the owner of the Liverpool ship 'Three Brothers'

(A)

Lake

(B)

Laming

(C)

Lexington

11. Mahogany wood was originally called?

(A)

Ceylon Wood

(B)

Trinidad Bark

(C)

Jamaica Wood

12. Runaway communities were called?

(A)

Meringues

(B)

Mariners

(C)

Maroons

13. What was the name of the estate destroyed in the 1832 Slave rebellion in Jamaica?

(A)

Bridlington

(B)

Southampton

(C)

Roehampton

14. Mary Prince (a former house slave) was the first 'Black British' woman to have her autobiography published in which year?

(A)

1981

(B)

1831

(C)

1801

15. When was the 'first recorded' slave uprising and in which island in the Caribbean?

(A)

1892 Cuba

(B)

1522 Hispaniola

(C)

1529 Georgia

16. Some African chiefs sent their sons to be educated in England and in the 1790's how many were at school in Liverpool?

(A)

50

(B)

78

(C)

150

17. Many African 'seafarers' after 1807 were employed to crew ships due to the increased development in which oil?

(A)

Grapeseed Oil

(B)

Palm Oil

(C)

Extra Virgin Oil

18. Because of this many settled on the outskirts of Liverpool now called?

(A)

Liverpool 8 (Toxteth)

(B)

Chapeltown (Leeds)

(C)

St Pauls (Bristol)

19. PROFITS FROM SLAVERY - Thomas Leyland Founded which bank in 1807 in Liverpool?

(A)

Royal Bank of Scotland

(B)

Barings Bank

(C)

Leyland

20. PROFITS FROM SLAVERY - Arthur Heywood

(A)

Prudential Insurance

(B)

Morgan Stanley

(C)

Heywood Bank

21. Humphrey Morris MP director

(A)

6

(B)

21

(C)

100

22. Where is there a statue of Harriett Tubman in the USA?

(A)

Buffalo

(B)

Boston

(C)

Birmingham

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