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May 1966

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  1. 1st May 1966In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  2. 2nd May 1966What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  3. 3rd May 1966In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  4. 4th May 1966In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  5. 5th May 1966In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  6. 6th May 1966Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  7. 7th May 1966What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  8. 8th May 1966How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  9. 9th May 1966Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  10. 10th May 1966In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  11. 11th May 1966Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  12. 12th May 1966What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  13. 13th May 1966Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  14. 14th May 1966Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  15. 15th May 1966Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  16. 16th May 1966Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  17. 17th May 1966What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  18. 18th May 1966Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  19. 19th May 1966What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  20. 20th May 1966What is Passchendaele also known as?
  21. 21st May 1966In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  22. 22nd May 1966What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  23. 23rd May 1966Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  24. 24th May 1966Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  25. 25th May 1966What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  26. 26th May 1966Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  27. 27th May 1966Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  28. 28th May 1966In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  29. 29th May 1966Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  30. 30th May 1966What was the Privy Council?
  31. 31st May 1966What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?