Question: For how many reasons did Burke oppose democracy?
Answer: three

Question: What did Burke think could arouse common people's dangerous passions?
Answer: demagogues

Question: What type of impulses did Burke think could gain power through commoners' passions?
Answer: authoritarian

Question: Who did Burke think protected unpopular minorities?
Answer: the upper classes

Question: When was Warren Hastings impeached?
Answer: 1786

Question: Where was Hastings formerly the governor?
Answer: Bengal

Question: How long before Hastings's trial had Britain been dealing with Indian unrest?
Answer: two decades

Question: What was Burke made chairman of in 1781?
Answer: the Commons Select Committee on East Indian Affairs

Question: When Burke said the Indian problems 'began in commerce', where did he say the problems ended in?
Answer: empire

Question: When did Burke charge Hastings for impeachment?
Answer: 4 April 1786

Question: What was the impeachment formally called?
Answer: Article of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Question: Which house acquitted Hastings?
Answer: House of Lords

Question: Which house impeached Hastings?
Answer: House of Commons

Question: Like what creature did Burke say Hastings was 'devouring the dead'?
Answer: ravenous vulture

Question: Who did Parisian women want to return to Paris?
Answer: King Louis XVI

Question: What was Burke's son's name?
Answer: Richard Burke

Question: Who requested that Burke support the French Revolution?
Answer: Charles-Jean-François Depont

Question: When did Burke first publicly condemn the French Revolution?
Answer: 9 February 1790

Question: When did Richard Price give a sermon to the Revolution Society?
Answer: 4 November 1789

Question: What was the Revolution Society commemorating?
Answer: the Glorious Revolution of 1688

Question: Who did Price think should see themselves as citizens of the world?
Answer: Englishmen

Question: What philosophy did Price support?
Answer: universal "Rights of Men"

Question: Which of Burke's writings was inspired by Price's sermon?
Answer: Reflections on the Revolution in France

Question: When did Burke publish his Reflections on the Revolution in France?
Answer: 1790

Question: How many copies did Reflections on the Revolution in France sell in 2 months?
Answer: 17,500

Question: Who translated 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' into French?
Answer: Pierre-Gaëton Dupont

Question: When was the tenth printing of the French translation of 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'?
Answer: June 1791

Question: Who did Burke say we look up to with awe?
Answer: kings

Question: Who did Burke say we look to with affection?
Answer: parliaments

Question: Who did Burke say we look to with reverence?
Answer: priests

Question: How did Burke say we look towards nobility?
Answer: with respect

Question: How did Burke say we look towards magistrates?
Answer: duty

Question: Who was featured in the most well-known part of Burke's Reflections?
Answer: Marie-Antoinette

Question: Who said Burke wrote 'pure foppery' about Marie-Antoinette?
Answer: Philip Francis

Question: Who adored Burke's chivalry?
Answer: Edward Gibbon

Question: How did Marie-Antoinette react to Burke's writing about her?
Answer: she burst into tears

Question: Who re-translated the Reflections into French?
Answer: Louis XVI

Question: Which British ministers disagreed with Burke's Reflections?
Answer: Richard Sheridan and Charles James Fox

Question: What political party was Charles James Fox?
Answer: Whig

Question: What political party was Earl Fitzwilliam?
Answer: Whigs

Question: What political party was Richard Sheridan?
Answer: Whig

Question: Who wrote 'The Rights of Man'?
Answer: Thomas Paine

Question: Who wrote 'A Vindication of the Rights of Men'?
Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

Question: Who said the Reflections were "the manifesto of a Counter Revolution"?
Answer: James Mackintosh

Question: Who did Mackintosh compare Burke to?
Answer: Lord Bacon and Cicero

Question: What types of wisdom did Mackintosh say Burke had?
Answer: political and moral

Question: Who asked Burke for more "very refreshing mental food"?
Answer: François-Louis-Thibault de Menonville

Question: When did Burke release 'A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly'?
Answer: April 1791

Question: Which French philosopher did Burke attack?
Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question: When did Rousseau visit Britain?
Answer: 1766–7

Question: Who did Rousseau stay with when visiting Britain?
Answer: David Hume

Question: Fox praised revolutionary principles in a debate about which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: What type of power did Fox think Burke was wrong about?
Answer: hereditary

Question: Which constitution did Burke condemn on May 6, 1791?
Answer: French

Question: Fox quoted Burke's speeches from how long ago?
Answer: fourteen and fifteen years

Question: When did Burke leave the Whig party?
Answer: 5 June 1791

Question: Who did Burke turn down money from?
Answer: Fitzwilliam

Question: What did Burke say 'envenoms everything it touches'?
Answer: French constitution

Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke could still be friends?
Answer: Fox

Question: Who thought that Fox and Burke's friendship was lost?
Answer: Burke

Question: What did Burke want the Whigs to condemn?
Answer: the French Revolution

Question: What did Burke publish on Aug 3, 1791?
Answer: Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Question: Burke thought the French Revolution was against whose principles?
Answer: the Whig party

Question: Burke attacked Whigs who supported what?
Answer: the French Revolution

Question: Who thought Burke should have written in a more moderate tone?
Answer: Portland and Fitzwilliam

Question: Who said he 'perfectly differed from Mr. Fox'?
Answer: Francis Basset

Question: What was Francis Basset's political party?
Answer: Whig

Question: How did Burke think the Whigs secretly felt?
Answer: galled

Question: Who thought Burke and Fox shouldn't have made their argument public?
Answer: Charles Burney

Question: Who did Burke write to on Nov 4, 1793?
Answer: William Windham

Question: Which faction's uprising in La Vendee did Burke support?
Answer: royalist

Question: Who did Burke urge to send reinforcements to La Vendee?
Answer: Henry Dundas

Question: Where did Burke think La Vendee might lead to a march on?
Answer: Paris

Question: What did Burke support Britain fighting against?
Answer: revolutionary France

Question: When did Prince Charles write to Burke?
Answer: 23 October

Question: How many foreign supporters did Burke think a French royalist was worth?
Answer: twenty

Question: What did Burke see as proof of the importance of French royalists?
Answer: La Vendée

Question: What country was Prince Charles part of the ruling family of?
Answer: France

Question: In what writing did Burke comment about the importance of La Vendee?
Answer: Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France

Question: When did Burke receive a vote of thanks?
Answer: 20 June 1794

Question: When did Burke's son die?
Answer: August 1794

Question: What did King George III want to make Burke an Earl of?
Answer: Beaconsfield

Question: How much money did Burke accept instead of the Earlship?
Answer: £2,500

Question: Who attacked Burke for receiving recognition from King George III?
Answer: Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale

Question: What was Burke's final publication?
Answer: Letters on a Regicide Peace

Question: When was Burke's final publication?
Answer: October 1796

Question: What did Burke think was missing from the French Revolutionary Government?
Answer: Individuality

Question: What did Burke think were the French Revolutionary Government's only goals?
Answer: dominion and conquest

Question: What negotiations did Burke think were appeasement?
Answer: negotiations for peace with France by the Pitt government