Question: Which type of school was not in widespread usage?
Answer: Secondary technical schools

Question: Who was made Secretary of State for Education in 1970?
Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Question: What kind of school did Thatcher end the compulsion for existing schools to convert to?
Answer: comprehensive

Question: What party was in power when Margaret Thatcher was made Secretary of State for Education?
Answer: Conservative

Question: By what year did the 11-plus exam mainly fall out of use?
Answer: 1975

Question: What did secondary modern and grammar schools combine to become?
Answer: neighbourhood comprehensives

Question: Grammar schools that did not close were converted to what?
Answer: comprehensive schools

Question: What are two locations in which all secondary schools were converted to comprehensives in the '70s?
Answer: Sandwell and Dudley

Question: Who initiated the scrutiny of the educational system in 1976?
Answer: James Callaghan

Question: What is the only kind of school operating in Wales?
Answer: Comprehensive school

Question: Which political party was James Callaghan a member of?
Answer: Labour

Question: What law enables parents full control over their child's education?
Answer: Education Reform Act

Question: In what year was the Education Reform Act made into law?
Answer: 1988

Question: What concept does the government currently support for education?
Answer: specialisation

Question: Parental choice has informed what controversial practice?
Answer: league tables of school performance

Question: All public primary and secondary schools in Scotland are of what type?
Answer: comprehensive

Question: What has Scotland refused to adopt?
Answer: specialist schools

Question: When was Scotland's latest rejection of the specialist school model?
Answer: 2005

Question: Which country is Northern England's school system most different from?
Answer: Scotland

Question: Which countries have school systems somewhat similar to Northern Ireland?
Answer: England and Wales

Question: What is the French term for the Republic of the Congo?
Answer: République du Congo

Question: Which country lies on Congo's northeast border?
Answer: Central African Republic

Question: Whic country lies on Congo's western border?
Answer: Gabon

Question: Which country lies on Congo's northwest border?
Answer: Cameroon

Question: In what part of Africa is the Congo located?
Answer: Central Africa

Question: What language was spoken in the area that became the Congo?
Answer: Bantu

Question: When did the Congo gain its independence from colonial rule?
Answer: 1960

Question: Who is the ruler of the Congo?
Answer: Denis Sassou Nguesso

Question: What title does Nguesso hold?
Answer: President

Question: What is the Congo's rank among other oil generating nations in the Gulf of Guinea?
Answer: fourth

Question: What income is subject to uneven distribution in the Congo?
Answer: oil revenues

Question: What group of people were living in the area that would become the Congo prior to the arrival of Bantu tribes?
Answer: Pygmy

Question: When did Bantu tribes arrive in the area formerly populated by the Pygmy people?
Answer: 1500 BC

Question: The Bakongo were a group derived from which tribes?
Answer: Bantu

Question: Whose expedition arrived at the mouth of the Congo River in 1484?
Answer: Diogo Cão

Question: What was Diogo Cao's nationality?
Answer: Portuguese

Question: What did European traders exchange with Bantu people?
Answer: commodities, manufactured goods, and people

Question: When did formal colonization of the Congo River delta begin?
Answer: late 19th century

Question: Colonization reduced the power of what groups in the Congo River basin?
Answer: Bantu societies

Question: When did the French take control of the region to the north of the Congo River?
Answer: 1880

Question: Who brokered a traty with the Makoko people?
Answer: Pierre de Brazza

Question: What was the French Congo's name changed to in 1903?
Answer: Middle Congo

Question: What group of French colonies was created in 1908?
Answer: French Equatorial Africa

Question: How many people are estimated to have died as a result of the creation of the Congo-Ocean Railroad?
Answer: 14,000

Question: What served as the capital of France in spirit during the Occupation?
Answer: Brazzaville

Question: What meeting brought about changes in France's policy towards its colonies?
Answer: Brazzaville Conference of 1944

Question: When did Brazzaville get its own local government?
Answer: 1946

Question: What did the 1946 constitution establish Brazzaville as?
Answer: the Fourth Republic

Question: When was the Fifth Republic founded?
Answer: 1958

Question: What was disbanded in 1958?
Answer: the AEF

Question: In 1958, what did the Middle Congo change its name to?
Answer: the Republic of the Congo

Question: When did the Congo establish its first constitution?
Answer: 1959

Question: On what date was the Congo made fully independent from colonial rule?
Answer: August 15, 1960

Question: Who was the first leader of the independent Congo?
Answer: Fulbert Youlou

Question: Who replaced Youlou?
Answer: Alphonse Massamba-Débat

Question: Who were responsible for the revolts that ended with Youlou's removal?
Answer: labour elements and rival political parties

Question: Who took control of the company during the transition from Youlou to Debat?
Answer: Congolese military

Question: Who became president of the Congo in 1963?
Answer: Massamba-Débat

Question: What was a term that could describe the political philosophy of the Congo under Massamba-Debat?
Answer: scientific socialism

Question: Soldiers from which country were brought to the Congo?
Answer: Cuban

Question: When did Massamba-Debat lose power in the Congo?
Answer: September 1968

Question: Who became president of the Congo in 1968?
Answer: Marien Ngouabi

Question: What did the Congo's name become under Ngouabi?
Answer: People's Republic of the Congo

Question: What did the National Revolutionary Movement's name become?
Answer: Congolese Labour Party

Question: In what year was a coup attempted against Ngouabi?
Answer: 1972

Question: On what date was Ngouabi assassinated?
Answer: March 16, 1977

Question: Which group of nations did Nguesso side the Congo with?
Answer: Eastern Bloc

Question: Which Eastern Bloc nation did Nguesso sign a pact with?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: What is a word that can be used to describe Sassou's type of government?
Answer: dictatorship

Question: What was an important tool of the Sassou government?
Answer: political repression

Question: Who was elected president of the Congo in 1992?
Answer: Pascal Lissouba

Question: Who supported the measures of liberalisation Lissouba tried to employ to reform the economy?
Answer: IMF

Question: What interrupted the renewal of the IMF agreement with the Congo?
Answer: civil war

Question: What does ESAF stand for?
Answer: enhanced structural adjustment facility

Question: Which two figures clashed over leadership of the Congo in 1997?
Answer: Lissouba and Sassou

Question: What is the name of Sassou's personal army?
Answer: Cobras

Question: What nationality were the forces that invaded the Congo to assist Sassou in taking control of the country?
Answer: Angolan

Question: In what month did Sassou regain the presidency?
Answer: October

Question: Which politican left the presidential race after supporting a boycott by voters?
Answer: Milongo

Question: How long did the presidential term become under the new constitution?
Answer: seven years

Question: When was the new constitution ratified?
Answer: January 2002

Question: When was an end brought to the fighting between the government and Ntumi's rebels?
Answer: April 2003

Question: Who won the presidential election in 2009?
Answer: Sassou

Question: Which group provided oversight for the electoral process in 2009?
Answer: Congolese Observatory of Human Rights