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