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July 1969

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  1. 1st July 1969Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  2. 2nd July 1969In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  3. 3rd July 1969Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  4. 4th July 1969Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  5. 5th July 1969What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  6. 6th July 1969How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  7. 7th July 1969How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  8. 8th July 1969Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  9. 9th July 1969What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  10. 10th July 1969What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  11. 11th July 1969Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  12. 12th July 1969Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
  13. 13th July 1969What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  14. 14th July 1969In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  15. 15th July 1969What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  16. 16th July 1969In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  17. 17th July 1969What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  18. 18th July 1969In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  19. 19th July 1969Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  20. 20th July 1969What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  21. 21st July 1969Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  22. 22nd July 1969Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  23. 23rd July 1969In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  24. 24th July 1969Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  25. 25th July 1969Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  26. 26th July 1969In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  27. 27th July 1969Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  28. 28th July 1969Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  29. 29th July 1969Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  30. 30th July 1969What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  31. 31st July 1969Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.