Daily Practice · GCSE History
January 1986 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1986
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1986Give one motive for Elizabethan exploration, other than profit.
- 2nd January 1986In what year did the government make smallpox vaccination compulsory for infants?
- 3rd January 1986Name the two scientists who led the team that worked out how to purify and mass-produce penicillin.
- 4th January 1986Why did Snow's conclusions take years to be fully accepted?
- 5th January 1986Which treatment for fractured femurs is the Somme particularly linked to the wider army-wide adoption of?
- 6th January 1986Name one type of respirator issued to British troops as protection against gas attacks.
- 7th January 1986In what month and year did Hitler refound the banned Nazi Party?
- 8th January 1986What were the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens?
- 9th January 1986How was a Plains Indian chief usually chosen?
- 10th January 1986Name one Plains Indian resource that was damaged or reduced by increasing migrant traffic.
- 11th January 1986What should the closing sentence of a strong narrative account do?
- 12th January 1986When did Germany formally reunify?
- 13th January 1986What event in December 1979 caused detente to collapse?
- 14th January 1986Why was Elizabeth's lack of a husband or heir in 1558-59 a political problem?
- 15th January 1986What does it mean to say Elizabethan coinage had been 'debased'?
- 16th January 1986In what ship, and over what years, did Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
- 17th January 1986Was the Public Health Act of 1848 compulsory or permissive?
- 18th January 1986In roughly which decade did penicillin become a widely available, mass-produced drug?
- 19th January 1986Why were workers at a nearby brewery largely unaffected by the 1854 outbreak?
- 20th January 1986In what year was the Battle of the Somme fought?
- 21st January 1986Why was phosgene more dangerous than chlorine, despite being introduced afterwards?
- 22nd January 1986What was a Gauleiter?
- 23rd January 1986What award did the Nazis give to mothers of large families?
- 24th January 1986Give one role, other than chief, that existed within Plains Indian band society.
- 25th January 1986In what year was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed?
- 26th January 1986Should a narrative account end with a personal judgement about whether events were good or bad?
- 27th January 1986On what dates did Gorbachev resign and the Soviet Union formally dissolve?
- 28th January 1986What does 'detente' mean, and roughly which decade is most associated with it?
- 29th January 1986Give one reason Elizabeth's education helped prepare her to rule.
- 30th January 1986Who was Elizabeth's chief adviser from 1558, and what position did he hold?
- 31st January 1986Who sponsored England's attempts to found a colony at Roanoke Island in Virginia?