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4. Do a Quiz on refugees

Why?

Do a quiz on refugees

Because learning about refugees is not about statistics but about you and me and the food you eat and the shops you go to and the music you listen to and the films you like and the people you meet and the countries you visit and the things you care about …

If you discover anything surprising, spread the word by asking your local pub or college to include some of the questions in their quiz.


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How much do you know?

Simple Acts Quiz


Have a go at our Simple Acts quiz - it tests your
knowledge of all things ‘fugee…

If you've just proved yourself the don of general refugee knowledge, try your hand at these themed quizzes...

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Simple Acts Quiz
General all round pop-quiz on all things 'fugee
 
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Headline Quiz
This quiz explores the world of newspapers and their portrayal of refugees
 
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Jargon Quiz
This quiz checks if you know your refugees from your root vegetables
 
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One World Quiz
This quiz gets you thinking about the implications of everything we do. Ripples and all that…
 
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Suprising Facts Quiz
You might discover something that surprises you…
 
 

All done? Hungry for more? Here’s a bunch of other quizzes to test your wider ‘fugee knowledge:

INTERACTIVE QUIZ

This great interactive quiz was designed buy the South of England Refugee and Asylum Seeker Council and allows you to find out about issues to do with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Click on objects to find out information and then access a quiz. The quiz has two versions - easy and hard. When you have finished you can find out how many you got right and print out a certificate!

FAMOUS REFUGEES QUIZ

Test your knowledge of the contribution that refugees can make to any country who gives them hostage

THE IRC'S REFUGEE QUIZ

Take this quiz and raise more than awareness! Every time this quiz is taken a generous donor will donate £1 to the International Rescue Committee.


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I completed an online quiz. Very interesting esp. the headlines back to the late 1800s.

Kathy Steward
Hampshire
14 July 2010 10:19 PM

Attended a local pub quiz at the Swan and Rushes where one round was about refugees and their contributions

Martyn Quinn
Leicester
02 July 2010 01:31 PM

Also organised an event for Refugee Week at BHT in Brighton. It was a great afternoon!

Jennifer
Brighton
29 June 2010 03:47 PM

Considering I work with refugees every day I knew a lot less than i thought I would!

Abi Webb
Croydon
29 June 2010 12:06 PM

Wrote a quiz for my colleagues at work

xenia
london
27 June 2010 11:02 AM

We held a prize draw for any employee who did the quiz. There were two prizes case of Fairbreak chocolate snacks and a Bottle of Prosecco Col di Manza Perlage.

Kari Walker
Suma Foods
22 June 2010 01:00 PM

Our Board Directors did the quiz before their meeting

Diane Weston
Barnsley
21 June 2010 02:05 PM

Quiz focused around the british citizenship test. It was good fun and we raised lots of money for the fantastic DAY CENTRE!

Sneha Patel
London
21 June 2010 09:30 AM

Did the quiz and the blogged about it

David Brown
Yorkshire
20 June 2010 04:20 PM
emilie
manchester
19 June 2010 06:46 PM

While on the Destitution Fundraiser, Its only 10 hours I completed a sample of the UK Citizenship Test which is done by Refugees to become British Citizens.

Emma Birks
BIRMINGHAM
19 June 2010 06:15 PM

As part of Destitution fundraising day with my colleagues in Birmingham City centre we completed a quiz.

Alyena Rahman
Birmignham
19 June 2010 06:10 PM

The citizenship test

Lucy Mayblin
Birmingham
19 June 2010 06:00 PM

we did this for destitution fundraiser

Paul Shaw
Lionel St
19 June 2010 05:55 PM

Did not score well, but learnt a lot and am interested in learning more

Sarah
Bedfordshire
19 June 2010 05:00 PM

i like doing quiz and i did a guiz and it fun

lubna shirwa 3A
salusbury primary school
19 June 2010 10:05 AM

i did the quiz then looked at the info - surprised about how much i did and didn't know!

gill price
sheffield, uk
19 June 2010 09:39 AM

I actually learnt something.

Vicky
England
18 June 2010 10:26 PM

I arranged for a round of questions about refugees to be included in a popular regular local pub quiz at the Swan & Rushes. The landlord let me put out leaflets and flyers and publicised Refugee Week when giving the answers to the round. We gave myth busting booklets to all in the pub and DVDs to the teams which got all the refugee questions right.

Aidan Hallett
Leicester
18 June 2010 07:49 PM

on the simple acts website i did the quiz and got 2 wrong

natalie
london
18 June 2010 03:38 PM

i passed the headline quiz.it was very interesting. i liked it!

maria
london
18 June 2010 03:35 PM

I passed, phew!

katy
salusbury primary
18 June 2010 02:38 PM

Helped raise £3500

Matt Dale
Whitechapel
18 June 2010 02:11 PM

Helped raise £3500

catherine mcdermott
Putney
18 June 2010 02:07 PM

Helped raise £3500

jeff dale
Putney
18 June 2010 02:06 PM

I am a head mistress of the Maynard School and we are about to finish our refugee week with an interactive quiz and video

Bee
Exeter
18 June 2010 11:27 AM

I took 3 of the quizzes available on this website. I learned so much about why refugees come to the UK, how the arms trade affects people's movements and even what famous people either were refugees or were descendents of refugees. CRAZY!!!

Angela
London, UK
18 June 2010 09:21 AM

i did a quiz and i got most of them right.

hasan
salusbury
18 June 2010 09:12 AM

I've done Simple Acts Quiz. Sadly, I failed...But I enjoyed it! ;D

Beata
London
17 June 2010 09:55 PM

did a quiz and learnt something I didn't know before.

philippa Harrison
london
17 June 2010 07:54 PM

I faild my quiz but better luck next time

Ayub 3A
salusbury primary school
17 June 2010 04:38 PM

I failed! 60% correct but not enough to pass...

Sarah
London
17 June 2010 04:27 PM

I failed! 60% correct but not enough to pass...

Sarah
London
17 June 2010 04:26 PM

Very Interesting!

Amra Smiley
Salusbury Primary School London
17 June 2010 10:02 AM

Citizenship Quiz at the Refugee Council

Claire Tomkins
London
17 June 2010 09:23 AM

I went on the refugees quiz and i did not passs but i tried my best and next time i will try harder.

Angelina Wilson 3A
Salusbury Primary School London
16 June 2010 05:59 PM

i have done a few quizs on thgis website

Christine
croydon
16 June 2010 01:41 PM

i did one of your quizes

Lisa 3A
london salusbury school
16 June 2010 11:08 AM

This was a great quiz - very insightful and should really break down barriers and misconceptions

Sophie
Leeds
16 June 2010 10:52 AM

I did 2 quizes on the site and learnt from them! Thank you. I volunteer one day a week with the Refugee Council in Brixton and love it!

Mike
London
16 June 2010 10:35 AM

I got 70% on a refugee

Alexander
London
15 June 2010 06:32 PM

Completed quiz

Scarlett de Courcier
UK
15 June 2010 05:27 PM

it was fun beacause it was easy

ibrahim 3a salsbury school london
london brent
15 June 2010 05:26 PM

In my class at school, we did some statistics on Refugees where we had to guess the right percentage. I never knew that if your a refugee of the age of 19, you only recieve 33.95 a week to live on!

Luna
England, Leicester
15 June 2010 05:01 PM

I was really nervous I'd fail.

Nicholas Heale
Lancaster
15 June 2010 02:29 PM

I took the IRC quiz. I scored 6!

Carly
London
15 June 2010 11:50 AM

Jargon busting quiz

Lesley Higginbottom
Manchester
15 June 2010 10:01 AM

I only got 20% right, I need to brush up my knowledge on refugees a little I think.

Alison
Stockport UK
15 June 2010 09:40 AM

I did the quiz with my mum and we started off well, but couldn't do the newspaper bit.

Will Carter
London nw6
14 June 2010 05:52 PM

I found some of the questions a little tricky and learnt some interesting facts about refugees

Umaimah
Salusbury Primary School
14 June 2010 04:16 PM

I completed Refugee Action's quiz at Celebrating Sanctuary, sadly didnt do well enough to win a bag!

Antonia
London
14 June 2010 03:24 PM

It was fun

ASHANTI
School
14 June 2010 01:11 PM

it was amazing to learn something new. I wish to do it again

Halil
canningtown
14 June 2010 01:11 PM

This helped me learn more about Refugee's .

Morgan
School
14 June 2010 01:11 PM

it is about teling different informoation about ifferent refugees

Melody
at school
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

it was fun and i will like to do it again

name
canningtown
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

i completed the simple act quiz in class

Dami
at class
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

I completed a quiz about refugees

Chadni
United Kingdom
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

it was fun and i learned more

Aishah Miah
at school
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

It is about refugee people

saniat Uddin
at school
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

It was fun

Aidan
E16 1QN
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

It wasa quiz

george
Canning Town
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

it was good.i cmopleted every think .it was all correct!!

tommy
keir hardie primary school
14 June 2010 01:10 PM

it was about different characters and refugees in the world

aaishah salejee
at school
14 June 2010 01:09 PM

I completed the simple act quiz in class

John
At class
14 June 2010 01:09 PM

it was good

Alfie
school
14 June 2010 01:09 PM

loved in - very interesting but not surprised by some of the answers.

selina fairclough
London
14 June 2010 01:01 PM

It was fun

Aidan
E16 1QN
14 June 2010 12:55 PM

I did a quiz at the Refugee Action table at Celebrate Sanctuary on the Southbank.

Amanda
London
14 June 2010 12:53 PM

it was hard

aaishah
canning town
14 June 2010 12:46 PM

The staff at kilcranny all took time out of the busy staff meeting to do the quiz on refugees- we learnt lots, we discussed the positive impact that refugees made to our life in NI and then we shared some sweets- thanks!

Paddy McNicholl
Coleraine
14 June 2010 12:45 PM

70%-a pass

Karen
Northampton
14 June 2010 12:12 PM

i scored 100% on a quiz about refugees

Brian Anders
St.helens
14 June 2010 11:56 AM

Interesting and confirmed what I knew and what is so misrepresented

Lizzie
London
14 June 2010 11:48 AM

i did a quiz on refugees

jon tuffy
parr
14 June 2010 11:44 AM

I am leading a service on Sunday 13th June in Radstock and will be getting the congregation to do some of the quiz and also to say some prayers for refugees

Josette Crane
Bristol
11 June 2010 04:00 PM

I got 75% so not too bad. I learnt some new information. Thank you

Karen Turnbull
HR !
11 June 2010 03:43 PM

Didn't know as much as I thought! Always good to learn though.

Gemma Wood
London
11 June 2010 11:24 AM

I did all the quizzes in one go

s a jaques
doncaster
07 June 2010 03:06 PM

I did not know the Co-op bank has ruled out investing in the arms trade. If I open another accout it will definately be with them!

george
golders green
06 June 2010 02:05 PM

Learned I didn't know as much as I thought!

Janet
London
06 June 2010 12:36 PM

Although I was slightly under the passing mark, I know so much more about refugees now.

Mic
London
05 June 2010 08:33 AM

I (just) passed with the minimum 70% pass mark.

Louise Hector
Frimley, Surrey
02 June 2010 09:55 PM

I passed (just) which was a bit disappointing as I thought I knew more than that.

Elisabeth Murray
Lincoln, UK
23 May 2010 08:24 PM

I thought this was a really great activity to help people see refugees as names not just numbers, and it also highlighted the big problem of misrepresentation that we have in our media. Plus it was fun! Thank you!

Ruth Chester
Leeds, UK
23 May 2010 06:08 PM

I did a quiz on refugees to find out more and to test what I know

Rhys
London
20 May 2010 04:45 PM

It was really interesting and I learnt a lot. I'm planning to do a similar quiz with the youth group I help out with

Ruth
Brighton
19 May 2010 07:49 PM

I am writing a session on refugees to take into a secondary school and will work with 120 young people aged 13- 15

Liz
Somerset
19 May 2010 04:55 PM

It went very well. The first time i did it I got 70% so i did it again and i got 100%. I learnt a lot and it was really interesting

Zubieda Widaa
Leeds
19 May 2010 04:22 PM

It was both easier and harder than I expected...

Alexandra Scott
Sheffield
19 May 2010 04:20 PM

I have just taken a quiz whilst looking at what our workplace can go to raise awareness for refugee week - I didn't pass, my geography let me down!

Catherine Martin
Wigan
19 May 2010 04:13 PM

This was great! People learnt lots and were amazed to hear the truth about asylum in the UK.

Sarah Van Doosselaere
London
19 May 2010 03:55 PM

I did the quizzes which were informative and I'm printing off the stories to take into work with me for parents to take home for their kids.

Sian Hemmings
Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK
17 May 2010 11:01 AM