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Last Updated: Monday, 18 July, 2005, 18:59 GMT 19:59 UK

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Quiz: The British welfare state

Think you know from Bevan from your Beveridge, your essentials from your luxuries? Try our quiz on the history of the welfare state.

Question 1

The NHS costs �1350 per head every year now, what did it cost in today's money in 1950?


	A: �180


	B: �55


	C: �260

Question 2

Half of the 10 most deprived areas in England are in which city outside London?


	A: Bristol


	B: Liverpool


	C: Manchester

Question 3

When were the first state old-age pensions actually introduced?


	A: 1909


	B: 1919


	C: 1946

Question 4

How many people living below the poverty line own their own home?


	A: 56%


	B: 10%


	C: 37%

Question 5

What proportion of people say they cannot afford to own a second pair of shoes?


	A: One in five


	B: One in seven


	C: One in 15

Question 6

What proportion of working age adults do not have a job?


	A: One in three


	B: One in four


	C: One in five

Question 7

Which of these things is not seen as a basic necessity for children?


	A: Attending weddings and funerals


	B: A dictionary


	C: A microwave oven

Question 8

Who is the Work and Pensions Secretary?


	A: Andrew Smith


	B: Alistair Darling


	C: David Blunkett

Question 9

Who said: "The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved"?


	A: Nelson Mandela


	B: Mother Teresa of Calcutta


	C: Diana, Princess of Wales

Question 10

Clement Attlee attended which British boarding school?


	A: Haileybury


	B: Fettes


	C: Winchester

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