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May 1963

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  1. 1st May 1963Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  2. 2nd May 1963Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  3. 3rd May 1963Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  4. 4th May 1963Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  5. 5th May 1963Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  6. 6th May 1963Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  7. 7th May 1963Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  8. 8th May 1963What was a Gauleiter?
  9. 9th May 1963What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  10. 10th May 1963How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  11. 11th May 1963Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  12. 12th May 1963What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  13. 13th May 1963On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  14. 14th May 1963What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  15. 15th May 1963Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  16. 16th May 1963What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  17. 17th May 1963In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  18. 18th May 1963What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  19. 19th May 1963In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  20. 20th May 1963What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  21. 21st May 1963In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  22. 22nd May 1963Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  23. 23rd May 1963In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  24. 24th May 1963By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  25. 25th May 1963Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  26. 26th May 1963In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  27. 27th May 1963Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  28. 28th May 1963Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  29. 29th May 1963What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  30. 30th May 1963Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  31. 31st May 1963Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?