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January 1960 5-a-day

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January 1960

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  1. 1st January 1960Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  2. 2nd January 1960What was the Privy Council?
  3. 3rd January 1960What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  4. 4th January 1960What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  5. 5th January 1960Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  6. 6th January 1960In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  7. 7th January 1960What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  8. 8th January 1960In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  9. 9th January 1960What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  10. 10th January 1960How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  11. 11th January 1960What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  12. 12th January 1960What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  13. 13th January 1960What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  14. 14th January 1960What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  15. 15th January 1960Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  16. 16th January 1960Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  17. 17th January 1960Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  18. 18th January 1960What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  19. 19th January 1960What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  20. 20th January 1960Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  21. 21st January 1960What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  22. 22nd January 1960Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  23. 23rd January 1960Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  24. 24th January 1960What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  25. 25th January 1960Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  26. 26th January 1960What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  27. 27th January 1960What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  28. 28th January 1960What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  29. 29th January 1960Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  30. 30th January 1960In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  31. 31st January 1960In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?