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  1. 1st July 1960What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
  2. 2nd July 1960What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  3. 3rd July 1960Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
  4. 4th July 1960What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  5. 5th July 1960What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
  6. 6th July 1960In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
  7. 7th July 1960In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  8. 8th July 1960By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  9. 9th July 1960What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
  10. 10th July 1960What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
  11. 11th July 1960What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
  12. 12th July 1960Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  13. 13th July 1960What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  14. 14th July 1960Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  15. 15th July 1960Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  16. 16th July 1960What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  17. 17th July 1960Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  18. 18th July 1960Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  19. 19th July 1960What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  20. 20th July 1960Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  21. 21st July 1960Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  22. 22nd July 1960Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  23. 23rd July 1960Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  24. 24th July 1960What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  25. 25th July 1960What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  26. 26th July 1960What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  27. 27th July 1960Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  28. 28th July 1960What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  29. 29th July 1960In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  30. 30th July 1960Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  31. 31st July 1960When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?