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October 1971 5-a-day

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October 1971

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  1. 1st October 1971What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  2. 2nd October 1971In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  3. 3rd October 1971Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
  4. 4th October 1971In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  5. 5th October 1971What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
  6. 6th October 1971In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  7. 7th October 1971Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  8. 8th October 1971Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
  9. 9th October 1971Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
  10. 10th October 1971Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  11. 11th October 1971In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  12. 12th October 1971Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  13. 13th October 1971Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
  14. 14th October 1971What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
  15. 15th October 1971Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  16. 16th October 1971Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  17. 17th October 1971Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  18. 18th October 1971What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
  19. 19th October 1971Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  20. 20th October 1971In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
  21. 21st October 1971What is Passchendaele also known as?
  22. 22nd October 1971In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  23. 23rd October 1971What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
  24. 24th October 1971How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
  25. 25th October 1971Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  26. 26th October 1971What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  27. 27th October 1971Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  28. 28th October 1971What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
  29. 29th October 1971Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  30. 30th October 1971Who were Elizabeth's parents?
  31. 31st October 1971What was the Privy Council?