Daily Practice · GCSE History
December 1957 5-a-day
Every sheet in December 1957
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 1957Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 2nd December 1957What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 3rd December 1957Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 4th December 1957Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 5th December 1957In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 6th December 1957By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 7th December 1957How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 8th December 1957Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 9th December 1957What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 10th December 1957Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 11th December 1957What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 12th December 1957Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 13th December 1957What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 14th December 1957In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 15th December 1957Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 16th December 1957In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 17th December 1957What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 18th December 1957In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 19th December 1957Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 20th December 1957Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 21st December 1957Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 22nd December 1957Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 23rd December 1957In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 24th December 1957Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 25th December 1957Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 26th December 1957What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 27th December 1957Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 28th December 1957Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 29th December 1957Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 30th December 1957What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 31st December 1957Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.