Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1960 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1960
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1960Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 2nd October 1960Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 3rd October 1960What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 4th October 1960In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 5th October 1960What was a Gauleiter?
- 6th October 1960What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 7th October 1960What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 8th October 1960What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 9th October 1960What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 10th October 1960On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 11th October 1960What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 12th October 1960Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
- 13th October 1960Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
- 14th October 1960What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
- 15th October 1960What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 16th October 1960Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
- 17th October 1960What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 18th October 1960Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
- 19th October 1960Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
- 20th October 1960In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 21st October 1960By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 22nd October 1960What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
- 23rd October 1960What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
- 24th October 1960What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
- 25th October 1960Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 26th October 1960What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 27th October 1960In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
- 28th October 1960Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
- 29th October 1960When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
- 30th October 1960Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 31st October 1960What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?