Question
Sir Charles Wetherell gave such an impassioned House of Commons speech against granting these people new rights that his suspenders burst and his trousers fell off. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these people. A 1778 act granting these people more rights was a cause of the Gordon Riots against them.
ANSWER: Roman Catholics [accept Papists or English Catholics or British Catholics; reject “Christians”]
[10h] The Gordon Riots were partially put down by this London police force. The blind Sir John Fielding led this first police force in the city for almost thirty years.
ANSWER: Bow Street Runners
[10e] A century and a half earlier, this Catholic joined Robert Catesby’s 1605 plot to blow up the House of Lords. This man now names a “night” celebrated each November 5th.
ANSWER: Guy Fawkes [or Guido Fawkes; accept Guy Fawkes Night; prompt on Guy]
<Michael Bentley, History - European - 1500-1900> ~19804~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
Data
| Dunbar | Winston Churchill B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Heights | Mira Loma | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maggie Walker C | Carl Sandburg | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Thomas Jefferson D | Mercer County | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |