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December 1985 5-a-day

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December 1985

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

Every sheet in December 1985

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

  1. 1st December 1985Which French territory did England lose shortly before Elizabeth became queen?
  2. 2nd December 1985What happened to the group of settlers sent to Roanoke in 1587?
  3. 3rd December 1985What did the Public Health Act of 1875 require every council to provide?
  4. 4th December 1985Give one reason the Second World War helped speed up the development of penicillin.
  5. 5th December 1985What symptom made cholera so rapidly fatal?
  6. 6th December 1985Give one specific way the mud at Passchendaele affected the treatment of wounded soldiers.
  7. 7th December 1985Why did mustard gas cause huge numbers of casualties but comparatively fewer deaths than phosgene?
  8. 8th December 1985What lesson did Hitler draw from the failed Munich Putsch about how to gain power?
  9. 9th December 1985Give one profession from which women were discouraged or barred under the Nazis.
  10. 10th December 1985What did many Plains Indian peoples believe about the ownership of land?
  11. 11th December 1985What did the Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 provide funding for?
  12. 12th December 1985What is the key difference between the 'explain two consequences' question and the 'narrative account' question?
  13. 13th December 1985Why did border guards open the crossings at the Berlin Wall rather than using force to stop the crowds?
  14. 14th December 1985In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, and in what year did the USSR itself dissolve?
  15. 15th December 1985In what year did Elizabeth I become queen of England?
  16. 16th December 1985Name one unpaid role that carried out government business in the localities.
  17. 17th December 1985When and where was Drake knighted by Elizabeth?
  18. 18th December 1985What was the main difference between the Public Health Acts of 1848 and 1875?
  19. 19th December 1985What had Fleming noticed in his contaminated laboratory dish?
  20. 20th December 1985What did Snow's comparison of two London water companies show?
  21. 21st December 1985What weather and terrain conditions made Passchendaele especially difficult for the medical services?
  22. 22nd December 1985Why could chlorine gas at least be partly guarded against?
  23. 23rd December 1985In what year was the Hitler Youth founded?
  24. 24th December 1985What phrase summarised the Nazi ideal role for women?
  25. 25th December 1985Name two materials the buffalo provided to Plains Indian bands, other than meat.
  26. 26th December 1985Give one reason why the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 broke down.
  27. 27th December 1985How many pieces of information does the narrative account question usually give the student to use?
  28. 28th December 1985On what date did the Berlin Wall fall?
  29. 29th December 1985Give one reason Gorbachev wanted to end the costly arms race and the war in Afghanistan.
  30. 30th December 1985What happened to Elizabeth in 1554, and why?
  31. 31st December 1985Give one reason Parliament was politically important even though it met only occasionally.