Daily Practice · GCSE History
May 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in May 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st May 1985Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 2nd May 1985What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 3rd May 1985Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 4th May 1985Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 5th May 1985Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 6th May 1985Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 7th May 1985What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
- 8th May 1985Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 9th May 1985What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
- 10th May 1985What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 11th May 1985In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 12th May 1985What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
- 13th May 1985Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
- 14th May 1985Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 15th May 1985What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 16th May 1985Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 17th May 1985Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
- 18th May 1985In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
- 19th May 1985Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 20th May 1985What was the Privy Council?
- 21st May 1985What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 22nd May 1985What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
- 23rd May 1985Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 24th May 1985What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
- 25th May 1985What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 26th May 1985In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 27th May 1985In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
- 28th May 1985What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
- 29th May 1985What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 30th May 1985What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 31st May 1985What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?