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January 1986 5-a-day

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January 1986

31 sheets · 155 questions · GCSE

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