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January 1980 5-a-day

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January 1980

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  1. 1st January 1980Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?
  2. 2nd January 1980Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  3. 3rd January 1980What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  4. 4th January 1980Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
  5. 5th January 1980Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  6. 6th January 1980Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
  7. 7th January 1980Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  8. 8th January 1980Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  9. 9th January 1980What was a Gauleiter?
  10. 10th January 1980What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
  11. 11th January 1980What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  12. 12th January 1980What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  13. 13th January 1980What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  14. 14th January 1980On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
  15. 15th January 1980What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
  16. 16th January 1980In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  17. 17th January 1980Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  18. 18th January 1980When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  19. 19th January 1980What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
  20. 20th January 1980What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  21. 21st January 1980What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
  22. 22nd January 1980What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  23. 23rd January 1980Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  24. 24th January 1980In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
  25. 25th January 1980By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
  26. 26th January 1980Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  27. 27th January 1980Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  28. 28th January 1980How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  29. 29th January 1980Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
  30. 30th January 1980What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
  31. 31st January 1980What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?