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June 1977

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  1. 1st June 1977What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
  2. 2nd June 1977In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
  3. 3rd June 1977Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  4. 4th June 1977In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
  5. 5th June 1977Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  6. 6th June 1977In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
  7. 7th June 1977Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
  8. 8th June 1977What was a Gauleiter?
  9. 9th June 1977What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  10. 10th June 1977Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
  11. 11th June 1977In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
  12. 12th June 1977Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
  13. 13th June 1977On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  14. 14th June 1977What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  15. 15th June 1977Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
  16. 16th June 1977Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
  17. 17th June 1977Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
  18. 18th June 1977What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  19. 19th June 1977Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
  20. 20th June 1977What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  21. 21st June 1977What is Passchendaele also known as?
  22. 22nd June 1977In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
  23. 23rd June 1977In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  24. 24th June 1977By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  25. 25th June 1977Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
  26. 26th June 1977What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
  27. 27th June 1977Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
  28. 28th June 1977Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  29. 29th June 1977What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  30. 30th June 1977Who were Elizabeth's parents?