Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1959 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1959
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1959What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 2nd August 1959When did Germany formally reunify?
- 3rd August 1959What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 4th August 1959In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 5th August 1959Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 6th August 1959When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 7th August 1959Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 8th August 1959What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 9th August 1959Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 10th August 1959What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 11th August 1959Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 12th August 1959What was a Gauleiter?
- 13th August 1959What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 14th August 1959Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 15th August 1959Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 16th August 1959How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 17th August 1959On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 18th August 1959What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 19th August 1959What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 20th August 1959Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 21st August 1959Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 22nd August 1959What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 23rd August 1959Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 24th August 1959What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 25th August 1959Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 26th August 1959Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 27th August 1959In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 28th August 1959By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 29th August 1959How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 30th August 1959Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 31st August 1959What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?