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October 1982 5-a-day

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October 1982

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st October 1982Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
  2. 2nd October 1982In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  3. 3rd October 1982Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  4. 4th October 1982When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  5. 5th October 1982What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  6. 6th October 1982What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  7. 7th October 1982What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  8. 8th October 1982What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  9. 9th October 1982Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  10. 10th October 1982What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  11. 11th October 1982Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  12. 12th October 1982Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  13. 13th October 1982Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  14. 14th October 1982How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  15. 15th October 1982Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  16. 16th October 1982In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  17. 17th October 1982What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  18. 18th October 1982Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
  19. 19th October 1982Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
  20. 20th October 1982What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  21. 21st October 1982Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
  22. 22nd October 1982What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  23. 23rd October 1982Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
  24. 24th October 1982Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
  25. 25th October 1982In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  26. 26th October 1982What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  27. 27th October 1982How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
  28. 28th October 1982Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
  29. 29th October 1982What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
  30. 30th October 1982On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  31. 31st October 1982Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.