Shire | Home Front Posters Quiz

1In anticipation of what event was the slogan Keep Calm and Carry On originally produced?German invasionMass hysteria after German bombingThe Allies losing the Battle of Britain
2Which campaign was described by the Minister of Information responsible as ‘a ghastly failure, altogether the Ministry is in disgrace again’?Keep Calm and Carry OnCareless Talk Costs LivesThe Silent Column
3In contrast, which posters were so popular with the public that barbers shops and pubs were clamouring to display them?Careless Talk Costs LivesDig for VictoryCoughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases
4The Ministry of Information was notorious in its early days for being full of upper-class people with idea how the ordinary Briton thought. Which of these three never worked for the Ministry?Evelyn WaughDuff CooperSir Kenneth Clark
5Which of these government departments spent the most on posters during the war?Ministry of FoodThe ArmyNational Savings
6Which poster designer got an OBE in 1948 in recognition of the effectiveness of his wartime posters?Abram GamesTom EckersleyFrank Newbould
7According to Mass Observation, how many wartime posters might you come across on a short walk in London?102448
8What at the time was seen as the most characteristic aspect of British posters?a sense of humoura common-sense approacha focus on the individual
9Why did market research find that the poster ‘Be Like Dad, Keep Mum’ was a failure?because the upper-classes said 'Mummy' rather than 'Mum'because the working-classes didn't understand the punboth of the above
10Where was the much-reproduced copy of Keep Calm and Carry On rediscovered in 2000?in a local auctionat the bottom of a box of second-hand booksin the Imperial War Museum

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