Daily Practice · GCSE History
November 1985 5-a-day
Every sheet in November 1985
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st November 1985Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 2nd November 1985Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?
- 3rd November 1985Give one reason government legislation on public health increased through the nineteenth century.
- 4th November 1985Give one reason Fleming's discovery was not developed into a usable drug straight away.
- 5th November 1985What action did Snow persuade local officials to take?
- 6th November 1985What is Passchendaele also known as?
- 7th November 1985In which year, and near which town, did the Germans first use chlorine gas in a large-scale attack on the Western Front?
- 8th November 1985Why is the period 1925-1928 sometimes called the Nazi Party's 'lean years'?
- 9th November 1985Why were some restrictions on women working quietly relaxed later in the 1930s?
- 10th November 1985Why did Plains Indian bands often organise communal buffalo hunts rather than hunting alone?
- 11th November 1985What broad change in US government policy towards Plains Indians did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 begin?
- 12th November 1985Where in the answer should specific factual detail (names, dates, places) appear?
- 13th November 1985Which country opened its border with Austria in May 1989, creating a route for East Germans to escape westward?
- 14th November 1985What two reform policies did Gorbachev introduce inside the USSR from 1985?
- 15th November 1985Who were Elizabeth's parents?
- 16th November 1985What was the Privy Council?
- 17th November 1985What did John Hawkins pioneer in the 1560s?
- 18th November 1985What kind of government response did the Great Plague of 1665 see?
- 19th November 1985Who accidentally discovered penicillin's antibacterial effect, and in what year?
- 20th November 1985In what year did cholera first reach Britain?
- 21st November 1985What is significant about the first day of the Battle of the Somme in terms of British casualties?
- 22nd November 1985In what way did mustard gas, introduced in 1917, work differently from chlorine and phosgene?
- 23rd November 1985What percentage of the vote and how many Reichstag seats did the Nazi Party win in the May 1928 election?
- 24th November 1985How did school curriculums change under the Nazis?
- 25th November 1985What is the difference between a Plains Indian tribe and a band?
- 26th November 1985What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 attempt to set out for different Plains Indian nations?
- 27th November 1985What kind of linking language should a strong narrative account use?
- 28th November 1985What happened in August 1991, and how did it affect Gorbachev's authority?
- 29th November 1985Name one arms control agreement signed during the era of detente.
- 30th November 1985Why did some Catholics regard Elizabeth as illegitimate?