Daily Practice · GCSE History
October 1983 5-a-day
Every sheet in October 1983
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st October 1983What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
- 2nd October 1983Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 3rd October 1983What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
- 4th October 1983Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
- 5th October 1983What was a Gauleiter?
- 6th October 1983What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 7th October 1983Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
- 8th October 1983Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
- 9th October 1983How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
- 10th October 1983On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 11th October 1983What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 12th October 1983What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
- 13th October 1983Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.
- 14th October 1983Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 15th October 1983What did Edwin Chadwick's 1842 report investigate, and what effect did it have?
- 16th October 1983Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 17th October 1983What did John Snow do with cholera deaths during the 1854 Soho outbreak?
- 18th October 1983Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 19th October 1983Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 20th October 1983In what year was the SS (Schutzstaffel) created, and how did it differ from the SA?
- 21st October 1983By what year had Hitler Youth membership become effectively compulsory?
- 22nd October 1983How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 23rd October 1983Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 24th October 1983What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 25th October 1983Name the Polish movement that won elections in 1989, marking one of the first breaks from communist control in Eastern Europe.
- 26th October 1983What did President Reagan propose in the early 1980s that worried the USSR?
- 27th October 1983Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 28th October 1983What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 29th October 1983In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 30th October 1983Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 31st October 1983In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?