Daily Practice · GCSE History
August 1966 5-a-day
Every sheet in August 1966
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1966In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 2nd August 1966What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 3rd August 1966In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 4th August 1966Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 5th August 1966Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 6th August 1966Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 7th August 1966Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 8th August 1966In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 9th August 1966Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 10th August 1966Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 11th August 1966What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 12th August 1966Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 13th August 1966Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 14th August 1966Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 15th August 1966What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 16th August 1966Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 17th August 1966In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 18th August 1966What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 19th August 1966In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 20th August 1966What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 21st August 1966How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 22nd August 1966Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 23rd August 1966What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 24th August 1966Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 25th August 1966What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 26th August 1966Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 27th August 1966Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 28th August 1966What was the Privy Council?
- 29th August 1966What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 30th August 1966What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 31st August 1966Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?