Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1957What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 2nd October 1957Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 3rd October 1957What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 4th October 1957What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 5th October 1957In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 6th October 1957What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 7th October 1957Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 8th October 1957Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 9th October 1957What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 10th October 1957Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 11th October 1957Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 12th October 1957In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 13th October 1957Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 14th October 1957What was the Privy Council?
- 15th October 1957What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 16th October 1957What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 17th October 1957Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 18th October 1957What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 19th October 1957What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 20th October 1957In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 21st October 1957In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 22nd October 1957What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 23rd October 1957What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 24th October 1957What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 25th October 1957What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 26th October 1957On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
- 27th October 1957Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
- 28th October 1957Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 29th October 1957Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 30th October 1957What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 31st October 1957In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?