Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1968 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1968
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1968Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 2nd October 1968Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 3rd October 1968In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 4th October 1968Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 5th October 1968Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 6th October 1968Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 7th October 1968Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 8th October 1968In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 9th October 1968What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 10th October 1968How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 11th October 1968Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 12th October 1968What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 13th October 1968When did Germany formally reunify?
- 14th October 1968What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 15th October 1968Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 16th October 1968What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 17th October 1968In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 18th October 1968Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 19th October 1968In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 20th October 1968Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 21st October 1968In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 22nd October 1968Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 23rd October 1968What was a Gauleiter?
- 24th October 1968What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 25th October 1968Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 26th October 1968In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 27th October 1968Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 28th October 1968On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 29th October 1968What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 30th October 1968Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 31st October 1968Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?